All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 60
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NewsLaurence Buckman's email to BMA GP members
The NHS White Paper heralds potentially huge changes for the NHS, and for NHS general practice in particular. Like us, you will probably be wondering what these developments could mean for you, your practice and your patients, and where to get the support you will need to tackle these ...
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NewsHealth outcomes consultation launched
The government has launched a public consultation aimed at defining how the NHS should be judged over healthcare outcomes for patients.
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NewsMP calls CQC in over South London Healthcare Trust
One of the largest NHS hospital trusts in the country was referred to the independent health regulator amid concerns over patient safety, staffing levels and equipment shortfalls, it emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeCOPD services
Dr Elango Vijaykumar and Dr Joe McGilligan describe how internal integration of existing resources and external support from a pharmaceutical company have provided a structure to improve the care of people with COPD.
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NewsTrust praised for career programme
A scheme helping NHS support staff work towards professional qualifications has been recognised at an awards ceremony.
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CommentTories’ NHS vision poses a screening programme test
With public health firmly on the agenda, what kind of role can we expect for screening?
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NewsPaediatric surgeons ‘need networks’
Commissioners must help to create a managed care network of general paediatric surgeons if children are not to have to travel long distances and experience long waits for surgery.
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CommentGPs and QIPP: is there a doctor on board?
The quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programme, a colleague once said, is like redesigning a plane while attempting to fly it.
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CommentCally Bann: GPs are the masters of our destiny
Now we know. GPs are the masters of our destiny, but not until they are ready, which is sometime between lunchtime tomorrow and 2017. So, best not let the grass grow. Time to get the GP preparedness plan out the drawer.
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NewsConsultants criticise white paper's lack of acute focus
Senior hospital clinicians have criticised the white paper for overlooking the role of the acute sector in the commissioning of services for patients.
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NewsBoard will have power to assign GPs to consortia
The new NHS commissioning board will have a “reserve power” to assign GP practices to consortia where necessary.
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NewsGPs refuse to be Lansley's 'whipping boys'
GPs will refuse to become the “whipping boys” of the health secretary or independent board, a GP leader has warned.
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NewsAll new blood makes up health committee
The Commons health select committee is to be entirely made up of MPs who have not served on it before - although several of them have a background in health or health related fields.
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LeaderManagers have been unfairly served by the rushed reforms
“In the crucial area of public service reform, we have found that Liberal Democrat and Conservative ideas are stronger combined… You have a united vision for the NHS that is truly radical: GPs with authority over commissioning… elections for your local NHS health board.”
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NewsPatients to be given choice of GP and consultant
Patients will be given a choice of GP practice, consultant-led team and treatment, the white paper promises.
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NewsGovernment warned reform plans will 'turn NHS upside down'
PCTs are to be abolished from 2013 and SHAs in 2012-13 under the government’s ambitious plans to transfer commissioning powers to GPs.
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NewsHSJ snap survey: how will the white paper affect you?
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has today set out his blueprint for the future of the NHS in a white paper. As expected, the document contains proposals to hand the bulk of NHS commissioning responsibility to GPs.
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NewsLansley: 'no job left for PCTs'
Primary care trusts will be abolished, health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced in his white paper for NHS reform.
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NewsCancer survival rates improve
People suffering from some cancers are twice as likely to survive as patients diagnosed in the early 1970s, new analysis shows.
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NewsReport critical of infant death responses
Parents whose babies are stillborn or who die shortly after birth are still facing indignity on the NHS, a report has suggested.