Birthday blues for NHS reforms

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Commissioning groups need local knowledge, says RCP

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Unite welcomes removal of threat to blood service

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RCP comment on Health Select Committee reports on CQC and Monitor

Commenting on the Health Select Committee’s reports on the Care Quality Commission and on Monitor, Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians said:

Marie Stopes: Abortion counselling amendment defeated in Parliament

Today, Members of Parliament have voted against a proposed amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill on abortion counselling. We are pleased it has been recognised that the counselling, provided through organisations such as ours, should continue and is independent and non-directive.

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One year after the health and social care bill was laid before parliament, the coalition's NHS reforms continue to face bitter opposition from health workers.

Both the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives have called on ministers to abandon the controversial legislation altogether.

It is the latest blow to health secretary Andrew Lansley's bid to push through the reforms, which were the subject of drastic revision and diluting at the end of a lengthy 'listening pause' last spring.

Plans to increase the cap on private funding for NHS hospitals to 49% have kept concerns alive that the government wants to instil a market dynamic which negatively affects patient care.

RCN: Ministers must drop NHS reforms

Department of Health: NHS reforms aren't about efficiency savings

Labour: Time to put NHS reforms out of their misery

RCM: Ministers have failed to justify NHS reforms

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Birthday blues for NHS reforms

19/01/2012

RCN: Ministers must drop NHS reforms

Department of Health: NHS reforms aren't about efficiency savings

Labour: Time to put NHS reforms out of their misery

RCM: Ministers have failed to justify NHS reforms

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No 10 unleashes Tory gay marriage opposition with free vote move

No eurozone answers as crisis drifts on

Must try harder: £35bn remains in uncollected tax

Leveson vs Paxman: 'You could become an irrelevance'

Cameron lashes out: Ed Balls branded a "muttering idiot"

Rees-Mogg: Coalition can't fix Britain

The Watson/Mensch love-in continues… sort of

Pseudo facts? New London Assembly gets off to a rocky start

Beecroft stings 'socialist' Cable

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Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences

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