All Acute care articles – Page 440
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Exclusive: HSE clears infection death managers
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive has supported senior managers' handling of a Clostridium difficile outbreak in which 33 people died.
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Darzi's review shows who has the power in the new top team
'Most ministers can be brought to heel by threat of the sack, but not one with a global reputation well beyond politics'
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London review: everyday problems at heart of proposals
'Darzi argues that his approach to this study - listening to Londoners, building a clinical consensus, providing evidence for the recommendations, working with the mayor and London boroughs - provides the foundations for success'
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Hospital viruses could pose terrorism threat
Lax hospital security could give terrorists working in the NHS easy access to potentially deadly materials, including viruses.
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HSJ Knowledge
Protecting your assets
Foundation trusts have a range of new powers and responsibilities, including the right to borrow money and dispose of property. Shahliza Chaudary explains the legal framework
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Join a study on cancer and insurance
Have you recovered from cancer but still have trouble getting travel insurance? Were you quoted an excessive premium or treated insensitively? If so, we would like to invite you to take part in our research.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lessons in clinical leadership
Jean Balfour explains how she has helped the safety team at NHS Tayside, part of the Health Foundation's Safer Patients initiative, work together more effectively and engage others in their safety improvement work
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Paul Cooper on emergency ward nine and a half
'Our local doctor is as good as anyone else's, I suppose, although I don't really know that as I have little choice'
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HSJ Knowledge
Health Foundation report: treating people with heart failure
A report published.by the Health Foundation as part of its £2.5m Quest for Quality and Improved Performance research initiative examines the evidence on how treatments and services for people with heart failure should be delivered.
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The MTAS failure is no ripple in a teacup
The cuts in funding for junior doctors' pay and study leave were very bad management and smacked of panic measures when they were announced half-way through the financial year.
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Johnson leads Brown's charm team as ministers start to listen
'Sir Ara keeping one foot in the operating theatre should encourage clinicians to have confidence that their views are listened to'
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Your Humble Servant: rave with Dave
‘It must be what the Baghdad Green Zone is like, hermetically sealed and full of the commentariat issuing orders devoid of any sense of reality’
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HSJ Knowledge
Ali Mohammed on performance ratings
'What kind of employer gives most of its staff a sizeable pay rise and an expectation of the same for years to come and only then asks whether they would like to work harder or differently for the pay rise they have just been given?'
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on effective procurement
'I think that there are enormous opportunities to obtain easy financial wins through the simple use of best practice supply chain management'
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Andrew Jones on getting the NHS recipe right
'We have a centrally run, demand-driven, hospital-orientated system for an ageing, consumer society with untreated long-term conditions. This recipe will be unsustainable.if the 2007-08 spending round produces a big squeeze'
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: of mice and men (and babies)
The draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill aims to update the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, which deals with issues surrounding fertility, IVF and embryo research. Ben Troke explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Social enterprise: a rich seam of ideas
Trailblazing pathfinders are using new funding to create choice and breathe new life into communities. Louise Hunt reports
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£35m ISTC deal scrapped
The Department of Health has pulled the plug on one of the biggest wave-two independent sector treatment centre schemes. And there are rumours that more cancellations are on the way, with the entire surgical component at risk.
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Trust battles with council over 'disastrous' A&E closure plans
West Sussex primary care trust is heading for a battle with the county council over plans to close two accident and emergency departments.