All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 97

  • News

    Scottish NHS sets out plan for children's specialist services

    2009-01-21T11:30:00Z

    Children's and young people's specialist health services in Scotland are to receive £32m additional investment, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

  • News

    DH unveils plans for NHS national leadership council

    2009-01-20T12:37:00Z

    A national leadership council designed to nurture the next generation of NHS leaders has been launched by the Department of Health.The council will have up to 18 members, including five part-time leads for the priority areas of clinical leadership, top leaders, board development, emerging leaders and inclusion.

  • Comment

    Andrew Frankel on challenges in organisational leadership

    2009-01-20T01:00:00Z

    In considering what leadership means from the perspective of a manager in a large organisation such as Care UK, I find myself contemplating the macro elements of leadership, such as communication, team formulation and strategy.

  • News

    Patient choice push for long-term conditions

    2009-01-19T12:44:00Z

    Commissioners should be promoting patient choice for people with long-term conditions, the Department of Health has advised.

  • News

    DH publishes reactions to pharmacy consultation

    2009-01-16T12:36:00Z

    An analysis of responses to the Department of Health's proposals to improve pharmacy services has been published.

  • News

    Recession will hit mental health hardest, study finds

    2009-01-16T12:29:00Z

    The recession will have even more impact on people's mental health than on their finances, the Young Foundation think tank has found.

  • News

    Trusts told to prioritise C difficile targets

    2009-01-15T12:35:00Z

    Trusts have been told to prioritise protecting patients from C difficile over other strategic goals in new Department of Health guidance on controlling infection rates.

  • News

    Surgical safety checklist promises to cut deaths by a third

    2009-01-15T12:27:00Z

    Trusts have been told to use a new safety checklist after a global trial saw surgical deaths and complications cut by a third.

  • News

    Divisions emerge as super trust race enters final lap

    2009-01-15T09:00:00Z

    Research might versus community credentials has emerged as a dividing line among organisations pitching to be labelled academic health science centres.

  • Comment

    Mark Goldman on shifting healthcare into the community

    2009-01-13T01:00:00Z

    In spite of every policy and every effort, it is not happening, not so far at least in Birmingham. The endeavours of primary care to shift healthcare into the community are yet to make a significant dent in hospital activity.

  • News

    Patient death sparks review of independent treatment centre

    2009-01-12T12:54:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission has announced a review of services at an independent treatment centre in Yorkshire following the inquest into the death of a patient in 2007.

  • News

    PCT director jailed for CV lies

    2009-01-06T16:19:00Z

    A former primary care trust director has been jailed for lying on his CV.Lee Joseph Whitehead, 44, of White End Park, Bucks, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison for lying to employers including Stoke on Trent PCT.

  • News

    End of life drugs move raises budget concerns

    2009-01-06T12:09:00Z

    The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to proceed with controversial plans to broaden access to drugs for the terminally ill in the face of serious concerns from health managers.

  • News

    NHS Medical Education England appoints chairman

    2008-12-19T11:44:00Z

    Sir Christopher Edwards has been appointed as chairman of NHS Medical Education England.

  • News

    NHS trusts waste effort chasing EU working time directive

    2008-12-18T09:00:00Z

    Trusts are wasting millions of pounds and losing thousands of service hours over-preparing for the European working time directive, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.Others risk prosecution and fines because the way they are assessing junior doctors' compliance with the directive does not match the EU measurement.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    HSJ's review of 2008: diamonds, debt and Darzi

    2008-12-18T01:00:00Z

    The NHS’s diamond anniversary year began with Gordon Brown’s relaunch and ended with the health service paying the price for the banking sector’s profligacy. Richard Vize looks back over an eventful 12 months

  • News

    NHS integrated care pilots to be test bed for 'risky' ideas

    2008-12-17T11:53:00Z

    Integrated care pilots will be given the chance to shape Department of Health policy up to and including tariff reform, the primary care czar has revealed.Speaking as the DH revealed the 36 organisations shortlisted for the scheme, national clinical director for primary care David Colin-Thomé said the organisations making the ...

  • Comment

    Mark Simmonds on developing young clinical leaders

    2008-12-16T01:00:00Z

    The profile of NHS clinical leadership has risen considerably in recent times, but the concept is not a new one. Arguably, it rests at the heart of working as a doctor.

  • Comment

    Maggie Rae on the role of GPs

    2008-12-15T01:00:00Z

    Yes, they have won again. The GPs have excelled in our local area survey. Each year, like the rest of the country, we participate in what is known as the place survey.

  • Comment

    Hilary Thomas on clinical-managerial networks

    2008-12-15T01:00:00Z

    I have had the worst cold I can remember for some years - and every time I get on the Tube somebody sneezes on me. The economy is depressing, the weather has been depressing and the built-in obsolescence of collapsible umbrellas convinces me their manufacturers did not consider the eventuality ...