Comment archive – Page 405
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PCTs must take action to tackle quality framework disparities
The data HSJ reveals today on the patients GPs exempt under the quality and outcomes framework raises questions about whether the system is being abused.
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Michael White on patient choice
Well, well, a stormy end to the Easter season. The Tories rampaged against perceived failures in the government's commitment to deep clean NHS hospitals.
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 9 April 1948A new type of hospital bedside locker has recently been designed. Its object is to place within the patient’s reach everything needed, to avoid delay and lessen the work of the staff. Invented by Miss Olive Matthews, is it named ...
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James McGruer on NHS marketing
The advent of patient choice in the NHS has created an opportunity for trusts to market their services to people outside their normal catchment areas.
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Ali Mohammed on staff surveys
Do you care what your staff think of working for your trust? Should you care? It is that time of year when we all receive our annual staff and patient survey results.
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Practices' minimum income is a guarantee of health inequity
Figures obtained byHSJ this week reveal huge variations in the amount GP practices are paid for doing their job, regardless of how many patients they serve or the severity of their needs.
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Freedom of information: accountability is part of the job
Hounslow primary care trust's failure to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act was so severe that the information commissioner Richard Thomas served draft High Court papers to force it to reveal information - the first time this has happened under the act.
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Your Humble Servant on Nicholson's blog
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: blogs and Zogs
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No continuing care cuts here
In your article 'Questions over continuing care cuts at quarter of PCTS' you make reference to several primary care trusts, including Peterborough, that have cut continuing care services. This is based on information PCTs submitted to the Department of Health between April and December 2007, writes Paul Kitney
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Shortage of doctors
The shortage of doctors and locums is affecting care and causing immense stress to remaining staff. As it is managed at department level, the scale of the problem may not be fully recognised, writes Richard Marks
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Dutch-style healthcare
David Cameron's plans for a 'luxury' health visiting service are based on a trip that his shadow cabinet colleagues made to Holland. This service is paid for by a top income tax rate of 52 per cent - which fits uneasily with the Conservatives' long-term agenda of tax cuts, writes ...
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Rights of NHS managers
The recent review of Brent primary care trust raises more general concerns regarding how senior managers in the NHS are judged. Since the publication of the Code of Conduct for NHS managers I have witnessed misuse of it on many occasions, writes Ray Rowden
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
2 April 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital ReviewAppointments of deputy medical officer of health and deputy medial school officer, senior medial officer, chief dental surgeon, chief nursing officer, principal assistants and divisional medical officers have been made within the London County Council Public Heath Department, as reorganised ...
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This week's lookey likey
Looking through a recent copy of the FT, a colleague thought she spotted a picture of Bill Moyes. But on closer inspection the pic turned out to be of Northern Rock chairman Ron Sandler. We ask if readers can spot the difference for it looks they there were truly separated ...
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What is the worst thing you have heard a doctor say?
The Timeshas been asking readers what is the sentence that you would least like to overhear in hospital. Their and our favourite is the doctor who looked at a reader's X-rays and was to be heard saying quietly: "Oh sh*t."Can HSJ readers do better? What is the worst ...
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Care as a career: raising the public perception
The public's view of caring as a profession is often negative, but this can be changed by bringing people closer to the realities of this work at its best, argues Helen Joy
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David Amos on directing talent
2008 could be the year that the widespread development of talented frontline staff and the spotting of potential senior staff takes centre stage in the NHS.
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Paul Jennings on football-friendly marketing
Through an ongoing commitment to social marketing in health, we have been looking for ways that newer technologies could work for us in delivering messages to target groups.
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Lisa Rodrigues on how it feels to become a foundation trust
Working for foundation status is like growing up - you learn from personal experience
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Emma Dent calls for green spaces without the public urinating
One of the things I like best about London is that despite being big, dirty, crowded and at times downright chaotic, its allocation of green spaces is among the most generous for any capital city in the world.