NHS to curb 'outdated' treatments
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The NHS is to come under pressure to weed out ineffective and obsolete treatments, by the drugs watchdog.
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Memory clinics and drugs to slow the  progress of symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are diverting  resources in Britain's state-funded health services from high  quality integrated care, doctors said on Friday.
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Come in number 8, it's time to cut you up A London NHS trust has got itself a new shiny IT system that it hopes will help it meet government targets on patient referral-to-treatment times.â¦
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The NHS will be at risk unless more is done to combat obesity and increase productivity, a report says.
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Doctors are threatening an all-out attack on the government's NHS reforms, labelling it 'not fit for purpose'.
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The move to treat more people outside hospitals will be threatened if a key NHS reform is expanded further.
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The government announces proposals to improve patient safety as a study finds current safeguards are failing.
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A report criticises the rules governing which elderly and disabled people are entitled to social care in England.
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NHS healthcare for cancer patients is not good enough, a think-tank of almost 1,000 doctors says.
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Care offered to people with long-term conditions such as asthma and diabetes to be overhauled.
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Government plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients are likely to be watered-down.
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THe NHS drugs advisory body is to reconsider its block on a drug for people with asbestos-related cancer.
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Terms used by NHS staff such as "bed-blockers" are demeaning to those they treat, the patients' tsar says.
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NHS trusts are slashing funding for homoeopathic services amid concerns about efficacy and the need to cut costs.
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Doctors' leaders warn the NHS faces a retirement timebomb as new arrangements allow doctors to retire early on full pensions.
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NHS patients may get new smart cards controlling access to personal health data.
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Doctors are told too many patients have been let down by poor use of freeze therapy to remove diseased tissue.