All Health Service Journal articles in 2006 – Page 5
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Healthy food vouchers launched
Public health minister Caroline Flint has launched a new scheme to ensure low-income mothers and pregnant women can provide their families with milk, fresh fruit and vegetables.Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme. It will give qualifying people weekly vouchers that they can exchange at 20,000 participating retailers.Click ...
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Parliament lobbied over mental health bill
The Mental Health Alliance is holding a mass lobby of Parliament today over the proposed Mental Health Bill. The proposed legislation is due to have its second reading in the Lords this afternoon.Find out more here
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Immigration rules could prevent UK medical studies, BMA claims
British Medical association representatives have met with Home Office minister Liam Byrne and health minister Lord Warner in a bid to seek exemption for medical students from new immigration rules.The body claims new rules that mean work permits will have to be applied for to do postgraduate training will prevent ...
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Council slams proposed cuts to local health services
Surrey county council's health scrutiny committee has decided that proposals to cut £10m from the budget of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals trust will substantially affect services. A public consultation exercise will now have to be held to look at the plans in more detail.
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Revised progress report on meningitis published
Chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson has published a revised progress report on meningitis outlining current campaigns to raise awareness of the disease and measures that can be taken to reduce outbreaks of it.Read the report here
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MPs to probe NHS IT
The Commons health select committee has published its outline programme for 2008 and will be conducting additional inquiries into NHS IT, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and audiology services.The committee is already investigating workforce planning and had previously announced that it would be investigating patient and public ...
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Higher income for family doctors under new GP contract
Family doctors earned on average £106,000 during 2004-05, the first year of delivering the new GP contract, according to figures published by the Information Centre for health and social care.An analysis of tax data for GPs in the UK found that earnings rose by 30 per cent last year compared ...
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Healthcare watchdog finds patients' NHS experience differs
People who are older, from an ethnic minority group or disabled report different experiences of the NHS than the rest of the population.These new findings published today by the Healthcare Commission found that older people tend to give a more positive experience of services in the NHS than younger uses. ...
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Latest hospital waiting and cancelled operations statistics
The Department of Health has issued its latest inpatient and outpatient waiting and cancelled operations statistics, for the quarter ending 30 September.Read the press release here
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Health secretary revisits the NHS cancer plan
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced a new cancer reform strategy to update the NHS cancer plan. Professor Mike Richards, the national cancer director, has been tasked with developing the strategy to 'fit the needs of tomorrow's cancer services'.The move was welcomed by cancer charities, which have been lobbying for ...
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Conservatives slam A&E closure threat
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned that Labour has not disclosed the evidence behind the proposed closure of 29 accident and emergency departments.He said the closures were being driven by deficits and has written to NHS chief executive David Nicholson to ask him if the government will give patients ...
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Monitor announces two more foundation trusts
King's College Hospital trust and North Hampshire Hospitals trust have been authorised for foundation trust status by regulator Monitor.The announcement takes the total number of foundations to 54 with a combined annual income of £10.81bn.Read the press release here
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Stroke group launches guidance on emergency care
A group of experts on stroke has published information on treating stoke and transient ischaemic attack.The guidelines provide explicit recommendations for practising clinicians, managers, patients and carers about the recognition and emergency management of suspected stroke and TIA, from the onset of symptoms to acute intervention in accident and emergency ...
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King's Fund probes maternity services
The King's Fund is to conduct an inquiry into the safety of maternity services in England.The year-long investigation will look at the safety record of maternity services and where progress has been made, and will flag up areas of concern.Read the press release here
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New guidance for ophthalmic services
The Department of Health has brought out new guidance on ophthalmic services.The guidance announces increases in the NHS sight test fee, domiciliary sight test allowances and the pre-registration supervisors allowance from April next year. It also details an increase in the continuing education and training allowance.Download the covering letter ...
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Independent centre deals abandoned
The Department of Health is set to abandon a large swathe of its independent treatment centre programme more than a year after it invited providers to bid for the lucrative deals, HSJhas learned.
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I'm a celebrity, I love it here
Trusts will be able to spend as much as they like on advertising under a draft code of practice proposed by the Department of Health this week. Hospitals could also use celebrity patients to endorse their services.
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PCTs should be more accountable, chiefs say
A poll of PCT chief executives and chairs has found that they think their organisations need to be more accountable to patients and local communities. Almost half felt foundation trust style membership could help strengthen local accountability.www.nhsconfed.org
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Physical activity mapping questionnaire launched
A questionnaire to help GPs determine the level of physical activity carried out by patients has been published.For more information click here
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Czars make case for service reconfiguration
National director for emergency access Sir George Alberti has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration of access to emergency care services. And national director for heart disease and stroke Professor Roger Boyle has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration in heart disease ...