All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 59
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NewsGoodwill could net GPs £8bn
GP practices could earn at least £8bn from selling the “goodwill” tied up in their practices, figures from the DH suggest.
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NewsMissing detail renders NHS quality accounts ‘meaningless’
Many hospitals have evaded a major government initiative to make them more open and accountable about the quality of their services.
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LeaderThere is no time to waste as GPs grasp the scale of the challenge
If primary care trust managers, GPs or indeed anyone else thought the consultation document on commissioning accompanying the white paper would answer most of their questions about the new policy, they have now been disabused.
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NewsGPs could be forced to take on ex-PCT managers
Many primary care trust managers are likely to be able to transfer into similar roles within GP commissioning consortia, regardless of whether or not GPs want them, employment experts have told HSJ.
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CommentMark Goldman on fatal mistakes in the NHS
We relive dramatic moments in the media on action replay. Something terrible happens; a missed penalty, a putt hanging on the edge of the hole or a tyre bursting on the final lap.
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CommentThe new healthcare revolution
Does the white paper outline a great leap forward or a just a step backwards?
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NewsBreast cancer screening inequality
Official statistics have revealed that fewer women in deprived areas of Scotland are being screened for breast cancer compared to those in better off communities.
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NewsNHS technology uptake ‘slow’
NHS managers are still slow to adopt new technology that can save money.
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NewsOrgan transfer taskforce pays trusts £1.8m
Payments have been made to 178 trusts in the UK to keep ventilators switched on after patients have died so their organs can be harvested.
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NewsNew healthcare director appointed
A university professor who has won awards for his research is to take up a new role as on the board of Nottinghamshire Healthcare, it has been announced.
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NewsFour arm's length bodies being abolished
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, the Appointments Commission, the National Patient Safety Agency and the Alcohol Education Research Council are being abolished, it has been announced.
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NewsNHS losing millions in pharma cost-sharing schemes
Bureaucracy may be blocking millions of pounds for which the NHS can be reimbursed, according to a survey of 31 health trusts in England.
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NewsAmbulance bosses reject 'lazy' staff claims
An ambulance service has distanced itself from comments posted on Facebook by one of its senior employees in which he criticised “lazy” and “unproductive” NHS staff.
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NewsNHS mini-stroke performance 'costs 500 lives a year'
The NHS is failing to act quickly enough when people suffer symptoms of a transient ischemic attack, also known as a mini stroke, costing an estimated 500 lives a year, according to a report.
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NewsModel for managing consortia financial risk remains unclear
How GP consortia manage the financial risks associated with commissioning will be left to “evolve over time”, the government has said.
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CommentAnswering the NHS's £14bn productivity question
Government efforts have reduced the NHS productivity challenge by £6bn, but also increased its instability
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GP consortia management budgets could be as low as £9 per person
GP consortia could receive an annual management allowance of £9 per head of population, HSJ has been told. The figure represents an even larger cut in management costs than previously proposed.
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NewsBMA GP leader lends support to managers
GPs and senior executives in the NHS have this week looked afresh at the skills of primary care trust managers as the scale of the changes implied by the Liberating the NHS white paper becomes apparent.
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NewsQuality vascular surgery ‘requires centralisation’
Vascular surgery should be centralised before strategic health authorities and primary care trusts are abolished, the president of the Vascular Society has argued. Cliff Shearman’s comments follow the publication of an audit calling for greater centralisation to improve quality.