All Ann Keen articles – Page 2
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Patient choice push for long-term conditions
Commissioners should be promoting patient choice for people with long-term conditions, the Department of Health has advised.
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Cancer reform progress report stresses early diagnosis
Earlier diagnosis should be a priority for further improvement in cancer services, the Department of Health's cancer czar Mike Richards has concluded.In his first report on progress against the government's five-year cancer reform strategy, the national cancer director identifies as priorities tackling diagnostics delays and improving the quality and safety ...
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Service planners urged to enhance patient involvement
The Department of Health is urging primary care trust managers to seek the views of 'easy to overlook' groups such as homeless people, sex workers, people in rural areas and non-English speakers when shaping services.
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£550m set aside to fund Darzi
The Department of Health has set aside £150m from next year's NHS budget and £400m in 2010-11 to pay for the commitments set out in health minister Lord Darzi's review.
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Hygiene code going unnoticed by most trusts
Less than a quarter of clinicians say their trusts are complying with infection control laws.
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Bruce Keogh speaks at Patient Safety Congress
Managers are still treating patient safety as 'subordinate' to money despite the health service's £1.8bn underspend, according to the NHS medical director.
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Patient Safety Congress 2008: Ann Keen urges staff to champion safety
Health minister Ann Keen has called for frontline staff to ensure patient safety is a top priority in the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Managers should lend a listening ear to patients
Patients need to be heard in the boardroom, not complaining in the media. But good patient and public involvement doesn't just happen - it needs a healthy investment of time, money and training
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Census shows wide variation in numbers of clinical staff
The government's boast that the NHS has been swelled by thousands of extra clinical staff masks wide regional variations and a flattening in the number of nurses and GPs.
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New public involvement forums raise chorus of doubts
Local involvement networks are due to go live in April but not all will be ready. Critics point to a rushed transition and a glaring lack of detail about how they will work. By Daloni Carlisle
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Department plays down medic supply fears
The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.
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Funding boost for specialist doctors
The Department of Health will more than double the funds available to support the professional development of specialist doctors in 2008/09, health minister Ann Keen has announced.
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Cardiac target to cut deaths met early
The NHS has made 'outstanding progress' in managing cardio- vascular disease, according to two reports published this week.
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Ann Keen pledges to support Productive Ward
Health minister Ann Keen has pledged her support to the Productive Ward programme, which is designed to help ward nurses release more timefor direct patient care.
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Screening for breast cancer misses targets
Three in 10 women aged 50-70 are not receiving breast cancer screening every three years, despite government targets.
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HSJ Knowledge
All-parliamentary group discusses patient safety
Health minister Ann Keen used her background in nursing to give a personal account of her approach to improving hospital safety at December's meeting of the all-parliamentary group on patient safety.
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Ann Keen tours hospital ahead of transplant report
Health minister Ann Keen toured the dialysis unit at Hammersmith Hospital in west London ahead of publication of a report by the Organ Donation Taskforce this week.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ review of the year: jobless doctors, lethal bugs and a £1.8bn pile of unspent cash
A year with more than its fair share of drama saw medics on the streets, C difficile in the wards, Blair and Hewitt on the way out - and an embarrassing surplus in the bank. By Richard Vize
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Comment
Michael White on Gordon Brown's health policy
Some well-meaning MPs think that Gordon Brown's government is deliberately taking the spotlight off the NHS to give it breathing space to recover from years of political battering.
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Health visitor investment will reach too few, says union
The government is investing an additional £30m on an untested health visiting scheme that will reach too few needy families, according to trade unionists.
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