All Acute care articles – Page 474
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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News
Improvement notice for trust
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been served with an improvement notice after it became the first trust to fail to comply with the hygiene code.
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Protestors slam IPPR reconfiguration report
An umbrella group of health workers, unions and patients opposed to privatisation and closure plans have rubbished Institute for Public Policy Research reconfiguration claims.
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HSJ Knowledge
Special report on ISTCs: Opportunity knocks
Independent sector involvement in the NHS has sparked fierce criticism. But consultants Andy Mullins and colleagues argue that it will be a catalyst for the innovation needed to ensure the long-term survival of the service
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Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
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Target-chasing managers suffer 'pathological' levels of stress
Too many new policies, a lack of coherent strategy and invasive performance management are creating 'pathological' levels of stress among NHS middle managers, an NHS Confederation report has warned.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the right targets
Once upon a time the word target used to have many in healthcare reaching for their crucifixes, or whatever else was needed to ward off evil spirits.
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Maternity unit's near miss
A trust has reversed its decision to close a maternity unit after threats from a local MP to raise the issue with the prime minister.
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Media Watch
'Ding dong as hospital bans carollers,' said The Daily Telegraphas it revealed that the Torbay Gospelaires had been banned from entering Torbay hospital wards.
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Media watch
The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.
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Media watch
Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.
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Media watch
'Only The Guardianfelt Channel Five's screening of a Caesarean section on Sunday night warranted much attention'
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Media watch
So we're at last going to see an end to junk food advertising aimed at children. And with the announcement came the expected outcry from companies that make their money selling bad food to kids, as well as health professionals who say the new rules will not go far enough.
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Media Watch
'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'
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Media Watch
The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.
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Media Watch
Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.
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Media Watch
'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'