All Cynthia Bower articles – Page 8
-
News
Darzi review: regions promise safer and fairer services
NHS West Midlands is to focus on prevention, quality improvement and patient involvement in a bid to tackle 'an unjustifiable variability in the safety and quality of services'.
-
News
Managers criticised over reconfiguration plans
Chief executives in North Staffordshire have responded to a scathing report in which senior managers were criticised for failing to collaborate over reconfiguration plans.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Palliative care: 'a good death is part of life'
The hospice movement has made major advances in end-of-life care but more change is needed. With a government advisory group due to report, Mark Gould looks at the issues
-
News
News Analysis: Is it new hope for 'No Hope' as cliffhanger reaches final reel?
Birmingham's Good Hope Hospital trust might at last put its troubles behind it if its acquisition by a neighbouring foundation trust goes ahead. Helen Mooney chronicles the hurdles that have stood in the way and asks if the move is likely to be replicated
-
News
Foundation will take on troubled Good Hope
Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.
-
News
The SHA interviews, Cynthia Bowers: 'I'm clear and I'm rigorous'
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of West Midlands SHA
-
News
Safety probe at 999 trust
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust has landed in controversy again with an investigation launched into possible patient safety breaches.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Awards categories and judges
Acute Healthcare Organisation of the YearDr Helen Bevan, director of service transformation, NHS Institute for Innovation and ImprovementMatthew Swindells, special adviser to the health secretarySue Slipman, director, Foundation Trust NetworkFrank Burns, former chief executive, Wirral Hospital trustJames Coles, director of research, CHKSPrimary Care Organisation of the YearEdna Robinson, national lead, ...
-
News
West Midlands chiefs named
HSJ introduces eight new primary care trust chief executives appointed by NHS West Midlands
-
News
PCT leaders fail to secure chief exec posts in West Midlands
Just two of the chief executive jobs running eight new primary care trusts in the West Midlands, the former fiefdom of new NHS chief executive David Nicholson, have gone to incumbent chief executives.
-
News
Chronic disease replaces waiting lists as new focus on location
Published: 17/06/2004, Volume II4, No. 5910 Page 25, 26
-
News
Streets ahead
pct spotlight: What is it like trying to set up one of the biggest PCTs in the country? In the last of our four-part series on those spearheading the shift to a primary care-led NHS, Ann McGauran finds out how Birmingham is faring
-
News
Raised expectations will be thorn in the side
Published:25/04/2002, Volume II2, No. 5802, Page 7
-
News
Painted out of the picture?
The future of community trusts in the brave new world of PCTs could see many wiped out altogether or make way for other types of organisation, reports Daloni Carlisle