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PATIENTS in parts of London, Manchester and Salford and Nottingham will shortly be able to register with a GP practice of their choice for the first time. During the one-year pilot scheme, patients can choose the GP surgery that best suits their needs, for example near their workplace or home.
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THREE ‘Champion Groups’ are being established to drive improvements in dementia services and deliver on the Prime Minister’s commitment to making the UK a ‘world leader’ on the disease, which costs society an estimated £19 billion a year.
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AROUND 1,500 cancer patients a year are expected to benefit from Proton Beam Therapy, a cutting edge cancer treatment that will be available in London and Manchester within five years.
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MORE THAN 400,000 babies will be screened for debilitating, rare inherited conditions as part of a pilot to see if more rare illnesses can be identified early on and get babies the best treatment possible.
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NOMINATIONS are currently being invited for the 2012 Building Better Healthcare Awards, with entries in 16 categories celebrating the best premises, products, people and processes in the healthcare sector today.
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A NUMBER OF trusts are to share in £336m of extra funding for equipment and facilities. The money will be spent on new operating theatres, A&E departments and other services along with CT scanners and ultrasound equipment.
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YOUNG PEOPLE could soon be texting their school nurses for appointments in a new drive to improve health in schools.
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WHILST there has been a significant improvement in cancer survival for most cancers over the past forty years, there has been no improvement at all for pancreatic cancer. According to a new study by Macmillan, this remains the worst performing cancer with a median survival rate well under one year.
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DESPITE the financial pressures it is facing, NHS performance is continuing to hold up, according to the latest quarterly monitoring report from the King’s Fund. Key indicators for waiting times and infection rates remain on track, although national statistics do mask significant variation in performance between hospitals.
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WOMEN have made up the majority of medical school entrants (on average 60%) for more than two decades, however relatively few achieve leadership positions at board level. This is now mirrored in the emerging Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), according to the NHS Leadership Academy, which believes that the gender gap poses a risk to successful implementation of NHS reforms.
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