All articles by Charlotte – Page 31
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Alan Johnson warns NHS not to slash training
Slashing training budgets in reaction to the credit crunch would be a 'false economy', health secretary Alan Johnson has told trusts.
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Healthcare Commission longed for government's embrace
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has sent a frank message to staff revealing how the government failed to embrace the regulator and left it 'handicapped'.
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DH launches cardiac death database
A database to identify the incidence and causes of sudden cardiac death has been launched by the Department of Health.
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End of life care consultation begins
A consultation on end of life care has been launched by the Department of Health.
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Queen Mary's chief resigns as trust plans three-way merger
The chief executive of Queen Mary's Hospital trust in Sidcup has resigned in the week her board signed off plans to merge with two other trusts.
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Gordon Brown: press ahead with health equality drive
The prime minister has said the credit crunch is no reason to postpone plans to reduce health inequalities.Speaking at a World Health Organisation conference in London yesterday, Gordon Brown said 'there could be no worse time than this to turn back'.
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NHS must reflect local populations
NHS bodies are largely representative of the communities they serve but some are drastically failing to reflect local populations, HSJ's figures show.
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DH to enforce proportion of BME managers in the NHS
Managers will be given a target on the proportion of trust board members coming from black and minority ethnic backgrounds under plans being drawn up by the Department of Health.
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HSJ survey shows 'racism alive in NHS'
The bleak plight of black and minority ethnic staff across the NHS has been exposed in an exclusive HSJ analysis of recruitment rates, employment relations and workforce figures.
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Low NHS waiting times masking wide variation in performance
The NHS has achieved historically low hospital waiting times but faces a battle to ensure the 18 week target is hit in every area by December.
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Media Watch: healthcare reviews
Unlike certain colleagues, health secretary Alan Johnson has never been invited onto a billionaire's gin palace. 'Trawlers occasionally, but never yachts,' he told The Daily Telegraph.
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South Essex Partnership foundation trust secures university status
A mental health trust has fought ‘discrimination’ to become the first community-based NHS organisation to gain university trust status.
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Manchester mental health chief launches dismissal claim
A trust chief executive who triggered weeks of strike action after sacking a trade union official has launched an unfair dismissal claim.Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust's former chief Sheila Foley resigned in July, the day after a report, commissioned by NHS North West, criticised frequent changes of management ...
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Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme
The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.
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Back to work plans could penalise mental health patients
A leading mental health campaigner has dismissed proposed reforms which aim to get a million people back into work as too harsh.
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NHS constitution fails to fire public's imagination
The NHS constitution is failing to attract public interest amid criticism that it is unclear about patients' rights and will not abolish the postcode lottery.
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Junior doctors need better supervision
Hospitals are relying too heavily on unsupervised trainee doctors for procedures that could be carried out by non-medical staff, according to the incoming chair of the postgraduate medical education training board.
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Hygiene problems will be no bar to registration with Care Quality Commission
Trusts will be allowed to register with the Care Quality Commission even if poor hygiene is putting patients at 'significant risk'.
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Trusts too optimistic over annual health check scores
Some trusts are disputing their annual health check scores as figures show many were highly over-optimistic about their performance.
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Questions over who will pay bill after Chase Farm Hospital fire
Questions remain over who will foot the bill for patients transferred from a medium secure mental health unit that was destroyed in a fire.