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The health and social care system is to be fully integrated by 2018 in an attempt to improve communication between services and reduce unnecessary A&E admissions and delayed hospital discharges.

Almost a decade old, England's payment by results system is facing a major shake-up from 2015/16 by NHS England and sector regulator Monitor.

Care failings at acute trusts could be met with the imposition of special administration under conditions in the Care Bill.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is set to publish an annual range of briefings to help boost the uptake of promising devices and diagnostics within the NHS.

NICE's range of quality standards are to be extended to cover public health.

NHS England is to overhaul the dementia diagnosis system in a move to identify the tens of thousands of people it says have the condition but have not yet been discovered.

Sector regulator Monitor has described its findings into a complaint by a private provider against a primary care trust as 'guidance for local commissioners and their approach to commissioning services'.

A government plan to overhaul A&E services has been published following rising concerns that the emergency services are struggling to cope with patient demand.

Data on four of the total 14 hospitals being investigated for having higher-than-expected mortality rates for more than two years, have been published.

Age UK figures reveal the NHS has lost more than 1m days at a cost of £260m since 2010 because older patients have to wait longer than necessary to be transferred to social care.

Further developments are being made with the AllTrials campaign for greater transparency in clinical trials as GlaxoSmithKline announces its commitments to sharing data.

Senior nurses have issued an 'unprecedented warning' about hospital ward staffing levels in England; GPs based in locations across the UK have launched a national federation to help practices compete for contracts and cope with falling resources; letter to the Times from peers, MPs and industry representatives calls for increased science
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