All Acute care articles – Page 457
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Sir Liam demands faster progress on safety
Chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson has called for more speed in improving patient safety in his newsletter published today.Although Sir Liam praised a 'greater awareness among clinicians, managers and policymakers that patients are not as safe as they should be', he said that the pace of change had ...
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Stomach pain tops Christmas complaints
Stomach and jaw pain dominated calls to telephone helpline NHS Direct over Christmas, statistics show.Vomiting, toothache and diarrhoea were also among the top 10 reasons for calling the helpline in England.Over the whole of 2006 the service received around 7 million calls, while during the Christmas period there were a ...
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Martin Pearson on warm glows and icy winds
'Directors and managers of today's organisations need to recognise that they are there not only to create cost-efficient and financially successful health businesses but also to lead services in a way that saves the world from further degradation and climate chaos'
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Health figures honoured
Christie Hospital trust chair Joan Higgins has been made a DBE in the New Year Honours list. NHS Confederation chair Peter Mount, former Greater Manchester strategic health authority chief executive Neil Goodwin, Royal College of Nursing president Roswyn Hakesley-Brown and health economist Anne Mills have been made CBEs.To see the ...
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2007 a make or break year for NHS, says think tank
A failure to tackle rising costs and to invest in modern services means that 2007 is a make or break year for the NHS, according to a report by think tank Reform. The report says the service's long-term strength has been sapped by the lack of an underpinning costed reform ...
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Simon Stevens on powering reforms
Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses
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Radiation overdose triggers probe
Immediate inspections of Scotland's five cancer radiotherapy centres will be held after a report into a radiation overdose found a catalogue of failings.
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MPs to probe IT programme
MPs on the Commons health select committee are set to investigate the NHS IT programme later this year in response to a letter from 23 computer experts. MPs will examine the national programme and decide whether there is a need for an independent audit.
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Some trusts will stay in red, MPs warn
Some NHS trusts will never get back into financial balance, one of the government's turnaround advisers has admitted.
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Monitor settles payment by results row
A public dispute between the foundation trust and primary care trust in Bournemouth over payments under payment by results has been settled.
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Michael White on politics
'Some Labour MPs suspect the NHS could have run more such centres just as well'
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Michael White on politics
Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.
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Michael White on politics
It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales
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Michael white on politics
Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.
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Michael white on politics
'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''
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Michael White on politics
'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'
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Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'
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Michael White on politics
'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'
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Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'