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News archive - February/March 2012
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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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