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A bid to slash five billion calories off the nation's daily diet was set out as part of the Government's ambitious new plan to tackle obesity by the Department of Health today.
Health Secretary announces winners of outcomes indicators for stroke recovery and children and young people’s experience of healthcare
Data on consultant-led Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times for patients who were treated during August 2011 published
Change4Life has today published its Marketing Strategy setting out plans for its future direction, and building on the wider Public Health Marketing Strategy published in April 2011.
‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England’ has been published today.
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) has today published its report ‘Dietary recommendations for energy’.
Following recent discussions on governance arrangements of PCT clusters, Jim Easton, National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, wrote…
Publication of responses to consultation on primary care trust charges for NHS pharmaceutical applications.
The winners of a competition to identify outcomes indicators for stroke recovery, and children and young people's experience of healthcare, have been announced.
Department of Health comments on second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Lords
A year on from a Ministerial review that confirmed the importance of Summary Care Records patient groups are advocating its use
David Behan, Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships and Imelda Redmond, Chief Executive of Carers' UK and discussion leader for Quality, will be answering your questions in a live webcha…
NHS patients in England will have the freedom to choose, not only where, but who provides their hospital care from April 2012
A new patient survey say the public wants more say and greater choice over their NHS healthcare
Demonstrating that doctors are up to date and fit to practise.
New guidance published today sets out how NHS providers will have to accept all clinically appropriate** **referrals made by clinicians to named…
Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, has paid thanks to the work of COMARE - the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment.
For the 15 million patients in the UK with a long term condition, it can be a real struggle communicating their needs, especially in an emergency.
The deadline for registering on the online AIMS (Award Information Management System) system has now passed. For more information, please see…
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