All Health Service Journal articles in 7 October 2010 – Page 3
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NewsNHS must not 'slide back' during transition period, warn pharmacists
The NHS must not wait until GP commissioning arrangements are up and running before starting to try and achieve improved clinical outcomes, the National Pharmacy Association has warned.
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How to make your workforce more cost effective
As all NHS organisations must now get more value for less money, efficient workforce strategies are essential, say Sue Morrison and Rachel Spink
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NewsKey NHS providers face loans limits
Providers running health and social care services deemed “essential” will have their borrowings capped and will not be able to use the assets involved in those services as security in loans.
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NewsThorny NHS reform issues unresolved
A Department of Health document on the proposed strengthening of the NHS provider market, seen by HSJ, sheds further light on the reforms’ far reaching and sensitive consequences.
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NewsStaff safety warning over cuts
Public sector workers could be put at risk of injury or illness because of the government’s spending cuts, safety experts have warned.
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NewsOut of hours performance variation to be made public
Primary care trusts are to be named and shamed for the first time on the performance of their out of hours provider.
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NewsConsortia may boost GP data
GP consortia would have more incentive to collect data on patient comorbidities, the Nuffield Trust suggests.
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NewsNHS budget ringfence 'irresponsible'
It would be “irresponsible” to promise the NHS’s budget can be ringfenced, Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has said.
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NewsNHS managers hit back at reforms
The reforms to the NHS are “too fast and furious”, Managers in Partnership has warned.
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Comment'All a bit anodyne these days, what with partnership this and partnership that'
Lansley the Leveller should be saying his prayers, according to the joshing banter and bonhomie around our Joint Consultative Committee table.
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NewsTransforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
Primary care trusts are edging closer to determining the future of their provider arms.
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LeaderThe coalition’s honeymoon is in danger of being called off
Momentum is a priceless asset in public sector reform. New governments tend to have momentum - commonly called “the honeymoon period.”
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NewsBig income drop likely for children’s hospitals
Specialist children’s hospitals could see a significant drop in their income under changes to the national tariff.
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CommentMark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?
Australian interest in foundation trusts has thrown their achievements into stark relief
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Comment'Lansley needs to make the intellectual case for PCT upheaval'
Who caught my attention at the Tory conference this year? Not Andrew Lansley, I think. He had his £164m cancer screening announcement pinched by David Cameron (a PM’s prerogative) and also made a rather lacklustre speech of his own from the platform.
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NewsPCT functions 'need clarification'
The Primary Care Trust Network has urged the Department of Health to quickly sort out which PCT statutory functions can be stopped in order to reduce pressure on managers during the transition to GP consortia.
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CommentMedia Watch: the Conservative Party conference
Unsurprisingly the health coverage this week was largely concerned with the blue half of the government ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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CommentThe right way to form GP consortia
GP commissioning consortia will not be created by guidance notes from the Department of Health. Nor will they be formed by primary care trusts and strategic health authorities suggesting the necessary population size for efficient commissioning.
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NewsGP consortium pioneer says PCTs are vital safety net
Handing commissioning control to clinicians but maintaining primary care trusts to support them would be the “dream ticket”, rather than abolition, according to a chief executive pioneering the idea.
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