All East Midlands articles – Page 79
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on his last column
This will be my last column. While working in London I could sustain the roles of foundation trust chief executive, a member of various national boards, HSJ columnist and playing in my band.
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Birkdale Clinic was 'in tolerable range'
A private provider whose contract with a leading trust was suspended did not have significantly poor outcomes, an investigation has found.
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Strategy planning for the workforce
The debate started by your report on workforce strategy is timely, as in each region primary care trusts and providers grapple with understanding their roles in workforce planning, following the publication of A High Quality Workforce.
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Equality lead slams NHS track record
The only equality director at strategic health authority level has called for the NHS to tackle race discrimination by setting ethnic quotas for managers if necessary.
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Guilty by emission as carbon cuts loom large
The NHS emits a million tonnes of carbon a year, but it must cut this figure drastically. Helen Crump asks whether trusts are giving this issue the priority it requires and highlights some innovative ideas.
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Solihull care trust appoints interim chair
Jenni Ord has been appointed as interim chairman of Solihull care trust.
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Minister's respect tour visits East Midlands
Care services minister Ivan Lewis is to visit Leicester today as part of a national tour aimed at ensuring all people using health and care services are treated with dignity.
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Service improvement: dignity by design
One trust's training programme around respect and sensitivity towards the patient is reaping rewards. Alison Moore explains how it works
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
I'm now in the East Midlands as chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester. UHL took a hit last year with the termination - rightly - of Pathway, its private finance initiative project.
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Former trust chief suppresses pay details
The former interim chief executive of a hospital trust has stopped it publishing details of his pay.
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Regions braced for change as plans put Darzi's vision on map
The strategic health authorities have set out their stalls but is there anything new in the proposals and are they likely to make regional variations in care inevitable? Alison Moore investigates
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GP to chair palliative care group
Mayur Lakhani has been appointed as the next chair of the National Council for Palliative Care.
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Darzi review: East Midlands opts for local focus
NHS East Midlands has focused on localism in its regional Darzi vision.The strategic health authority said it had divided its patch into smaller areas to make sure its proposals reflect the diversity of its residents.
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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'.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on customer service
It may not have escaped your notice that I have moved on from King's College Hospital foundation trust to a new role at University Hospitals of Leicester trust.
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Research and development network for Leicester
A new network is being launched in Leicester to support and develop clinical research in the region.
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Leicestershire Partnership trust rapped over killer's treatment
An independent review has criticised a mental health trust's treatment of a man who was repeatedly in contact with its services but went on to kill one neighbour and injure another.
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Sexual health - protection plea
Stuart Shepherd visits Nottingham to see how the NHS is coping with a surge in sexually transmitted infections, amid calls to keep them top priority
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Nottingham ISTC delays continue
The opening date of England's biggest single site independent sector treatment centre is still uncertain - amid signs that the potential financial impact on local NHS bodies is causing concern.
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PCTs ignoring demands to inspect private providers
Hardly any commissioners are carrying out full inspections of private mental health providers despite fears over poor standards, an HSJ poll has revealed.