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<updated>2013-05-20T11:38:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Many more adult care apprentices needed]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[But the public has negative perceptions of social care and there are concerns over the quality of staff]]></content>
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    <title><![CDATA[NHS Direct job cuts add to A&E pressures]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Job losses have led to more hospital referrals and put severe pressure on accident and emergency departments, it is claimed]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-20T10:09:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hospital paper prescriptions to be scrapped to save lives]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Deaths caused by prescription errors at NHS hospitals are to be tackled by getting rid of outdated paper systems, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-17T12:29:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fast-track plan for quality social workers]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The new 'Frontline' scheme will bring quality graduates into the profession and improve standards, the government has claimed]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-17T12:00:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cameron to compromise over childcare?]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[''We'll find a way forward that I hope will be good for people who want affordable childcare,'' he says]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-17T11:03:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Clwyd finds ''shocking'' neglect by nurses]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The Labour MP whose husband died ''like a battery hen'' at the hands of the NHS, says nurses across the country have neglected elderly and vulnerable patients]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-17T09:58:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[244,000 people under 19 are unpaid carers]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Of these, roughly 23,000 are under nine years old and 149,000 are aged between 15 and 19]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-16T12:24:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[''GPs should decide on assisted suicide'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The much anticipated bill from Lord Falconer to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill patients has now been tabled]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-15T11:25:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Council and police sorry over child abuse]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[In eight years of abuse children regularly came into contact with Oxfordshire County Council's children's services and Thames Valley Police]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-15T10:33:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[New NHS won't escape fines for old data breaches]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=22944"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Data breach complaints against organisations that have been dismantled will be transferred to new NHS organisations]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-15T10:26:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[A&E services are ''months from collapse'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[''Unless we can change the funding structure, the A&E system is going to fall over. We simply cannot carry on'']]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-15T09:46:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Asthma data sharing to address treatment quality ]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[A new online tool has been launched to share data on asthma and address significant variations in quality of care across the country]]></content>
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    <updated>2013-05-14T14:18:00+00:00</updated>
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