All posts tagged "Department of Health"

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  ‘I always knew that my anchor was health’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with former UK health department chief, Dame Una O’Brien

  In this episode of Leading Questions, Una O’Brien, who was permanent secretary of the UK Department of Health between 2010 and 2016, joins podcast host Siobhan Benita for a chat

  • Posted August 10, 2023
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  Health department chief Una O’Brien to leave British civil service

  The first ever female permanent secretary of the UK’s Department of Health, Dame Una O’Brien, has today announced she is stepping down from her role. O’Brien, who assumed her current

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  Sir David Nicholson, Former Chief Executive, National Health Service, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Sir David Nicholson left the UK’s National Health Service last year, after spending his whole career in this vast organisation. He talks to Global Government Forum about the lessons he

  • Posted August 5, 2015
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  UK government expects to pay £26.6bn for clinical negligence claims against NHS

  A patient safety group has sounded a warning after it emerged that the UK government expects to pay out £26.6bn for clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service (NHS), which

  • Posted May 1, 2015
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  ‘We must reform WHO now’, says UK chief medical officer

  The chief medical adviser to the UK government has called for an urgent reform of the World Health Organisation (WHO), after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa revealed that “we

  • Posted April 7, 2015
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  The health of the health service

  Is the UK’s NHS at breaking point? A new report suggests it might be, as Tim Gibson explains For many, it is the jewel in the crown of the UK

  • Posted April 25, 2014
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