NHS Weekly Round Up - Health Insurance Search
NHS weekly round up, a selection of key stories about changes in the health service
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A difficult week in the NHS and thousands go on strike- these are the key stories as the year draws to an end.
Some NHS hospitals should perform fewer procedures, senior figure warns
'Hospitals should stop carrying out complex procedures they only perform occasionally, a senior figure in the Department of Health urges today, after figures showed that it can put patients at up to 70 per cent higher risk of dying. article by the telegraph '
NHS reform 'set to cost £3.4bn'
Coalition reforms of the NHS will cost nearly £3.4 billion, Labour has claimed.
'Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham accused the Government of "burying" the true scale of the cost of the reorganisation in papers setting out the technical details of the plans. He claims an order for primary care trusts to hold back 2% of their budgets over two financial years to pay for the overhaul will total £1.69 billion this year and £1.7 billion in 2011/12.'
The press association
NHS HIV restrictions 'out of step'
'A Government consultation will determine whether restrictions on NHS workers with HIV should be relaxed after a review found an "extremely low" risk of the disease being passed to patients.
England's Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies announced the plan after Government advisers said UK rules were "out of step" with available evidence.
They found the risk of a patient being infected with HIV from an infected healthcare worker during the most invasive type of surgery (such as open heart surgery or hysterectomy) was about one in five million.'
The press association
Strikes: NHS hospitals 'prioritising urgent patients'
Nearly 7,000 out of just over 30,000 were thought to have been affected, while tens of thousands of appointments and tests were also hit across the UK.
But emergency services were kept running as unions and managers agreed contingency plans ahead of the walkout.
BBC News
As the public inquiry into the catalogue of failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust comes to an end, some are asking whether the same thing could happen again elsewhere in the NHS.
BBC News
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