All Acute care articles – Page 469
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News
News analysis: Sir Ian says intervene early and take tough decisions
So the deficit is smaller than the critics suggested, but NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers admits the service is not where he wants it to be. And he tells Nick Edwards that the longer trusts leave it to get back on track financially, the harder it will be
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HSJ Knowledge
Andy Burnham to launch Information Centre business plan
Andy Burnham, minister of state for delivery and reform, will be the keynote speaker at the launch of the Information Centre for health and social care's business plan 2007/08 and information strategy.
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United Lincolnshire trust non-execs angry at 'shoddy' treatment
Two non-executive directors have spoken out after they and five others resigned from a trust board - leaving just the chair and executive members in place.
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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Anna Donald on doctors' motives
'The NHS needs doctors firing on all cylinders, not retreating to their duvets'
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Anna Donald on consumer information
'Patients must indeed be patient. The term 'patient-led' invites disbelief that patients are going to lead the NHS'
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Comment
Anna Donald on lessons from Australia
'The NHS can't avoid political controversy, because what it does is too important, complex, and subject to debate'
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Comment
Anna Donald on turning cogs in a blancmange
'Most doctors would struggle to conceive of a hospital in anything other than descriptive terms'
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HSJ Knowledge
Stronger links between annual health check and peer review
Links between peer review and the annual health check are to be strengthened, following discussions between the Health Commission and Information Centre.
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Comment
John Appleby: New thinking on health variations
Arguments about what we get for our billions of NHS pounds rumble on. The Department of Health's latest analysis - noted here last month - claims the extra billions have essentially been spent on extra staff. We could take it to be a good thing - if the job of ...
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Foundation trust defers application
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has deferred its foundation trust application because of continuing uncertainty over the payment by results tariff for specialist services.
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Hewitt has no 'vested interest' in approving reconfigurations
Patricia Hewitt does not have a 'vested political interest' in settling reconfiguration rows in favour of trusts, the health minister responsible for patient involvement has insisted.
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Comment
Data briefing: How length of stay varies by SHA area
There is growing demand for new and innovative indicators to measure variations in performance between acute trusts. Length of stay measures include indicators of excess bed days, analysis over time and giving lengths of stay for specific diagnoses or procedures.
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Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Service redesign 'needs scrutiny', says Audit Commission
Local government must have a stronger voice in service redesign and commissioning decisions to ensure the public's concerns are heard by the NHS, according to Audit Commission chair Sir Michael Lyons.
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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Comment
Time to tear ourselves away from paper
Trusts' reluctance to store patient records electronically is a national scandal which is draining resources, harming patient care and limiting the potential of historical archives, argues Capita's Robert McIndoe
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on going back to the floor
There's often no holding back. I got short shrift once from the cardiac nurses over agency staff policy.
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.