All Acute care articles – Page 401
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Neil Goodwin on chief executive boredom
I have been reflecting on my time as a chief executive, specifically that in the latter part of my career I experienced increasing periods of boredom.
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View from the floor: end of life care
Helene Hibbert is a Macmillan occupational therapist. She works in end of life care at St Mary's Hospital in London's Imperial College Healthcare trust
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HSJ KnowledgeComparing UK maternity services
Recently, HSJ looked at spending and productivity in England and Scotland. This article investigates differences in the maternity services across three countries (England, Northern Ireland and Wales - reliable data for Scotland was not found for the whole period).
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Health system integration: straight to the point
Data analysis is revealing why people make inappropriate calls to the emergency services and prompting the discovery of new solutions to the problem, reports Stuart Shepherd
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NHS in virtual reality: second sight
The virtual world of Second Life has a health service, so you can now tour a cyber polyclinic. Daloni Carlisle explains
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Surge of acute contracts puts strain on PCTs' spend targets
Primary care trusts are battling to stay clear of deficit as their finances come under pressure from a surge in secondary care work.Many PCTs overspent on their commissioning budgets for the first three months of the financial year and some are now looking to make savings in other areas to ...
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Birkdale Clinic was 'in tolerable range'
A private provider whose contract with a leading trust was suspended did not have significantly poor outcomes, an investigation has found.
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Foundation trusts may fight private patient income cap
Foundation trusts could challenge the cap on earnings from private patients under EU law, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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Care integration must tackle inequality
Organisations in integrated care pilot schemes will be expected to deliver measurable improvements on health inequalities, the Department of Health has revealed.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on his last column
This will be my last column. While working in London I could sustain the roles of foundation trust chief executive, a member of various national boards, HSJ columnist and playing in my band.
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News
Scotland's day surgery rates vary widely
An audit of day surgery rates in Scotland has revealed wide variations in performance between health boards.
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HSJ KnowledgeReducing the traffic death toll
Why are the media and public not campaigning for new laws that would reduce road traffic collisions, particularly when nearly a half of all UK road deaths (40 per cent) involve young people?
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NHS inequalities row is shrouded in secrecy
The question of whether poor urban areas should continue to get the most funding is about fundamental NHS principles - so why is it being discussed behind closed doors? Sally Gainsbury reports
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Rethink maternity service plans, panel tells PCTs
A government panel has slammed two primary care trusts for failing to consult on plans for a radical re-design of maternity services.
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Temporary health workers' rights
Granting rights to agency workers will have implications that managers will need to get to the bottom of, says Janet Martin
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Treating children with severe medical problems
Cases involving the treatment of children with chronic medical problems do not create legal precedents. Tracey Lucas explains why each decision taken by the courts must reflect what is in the child's best interests at the time
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Fujitsu may bring £700m action over IT deal
The Department of Health has refused to comment on reports that former national IT programme contractor Fujitsu is considering suing over the business it lost when its contract was terminated in March.
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PFI plan could keep debts off NHS trusts' balance sheets
NHS trusts may hand their private finance initiative hospitals over to specially created charities to avoid reporting PFI debts on their balance sheets, HSJ has learned.The controversial plans would involve trusts ceding control of the hospitals to a third party.
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Trusts survey the wreckage as PFI hospitals begin to crumble
Arcane accountancy rules are in danger of costing the NHS control of some of its buildings. As HSJ reveals this week, the Treasury's decision to adopt new international accountancy standards is pushing trusts with private finance initiative debts to consider hiving off their estate to charities.
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Bill Moyes keen to see teaching foundations
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes is urging more teaching hospitals to become foundation trusts in 2009.