All East Midlands articles – Page 80

  • 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 ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Improving Patient Access, supported by NHS End Waiting

    2008-12-02T09:00:00Z

    Winner: London NHS Diagnostic Service with Croydon FederationThe Diagnostics in the Community pilot has been able to bring ultrasound, echo and MRI diagnostics to Croydon, the largest of London's populations

  • News

    £400m spending limit forced on NHS

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    NHS organisations will be permitted to spend just 400m of their 1.7bn surplus next financial year and will not get the full increase in resources pledged to them by the Treasury.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Patient safety records: silent witness

    2008-09-15T09:00:00Z

    General practice logs just 0.4 per cent of all patient safety reports. Are GPs keeping quiet to protect their businesses or are patients reluctant to complain? Mark Gould investigates

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on his last column

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Birkdale Clinic was 'in tolerable range'

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    A private provider whose contract with a leading trust was suspended did not have significantly poor outcomes, an investigation has found.

  • News

    Strategy planning for the workforce

    2008-08-21T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Equality lead slams NHS track record

    2008-08-21T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Guilty by emission as carbon cuts loom large

    2008-08-14T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Solihull care trust appoints interim chair

    2008-07-31T12:16:00Z

    Jenni Ord has been appointed as interim chairman of Solihull care trust.

  • News

    Minister's respect tour visits East Midlands

    2008-07-14T11:36:00Z

    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.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Service improvement: dignity by design

    2008-07-07T09:00:00Z

    One trust's training programme around respect and sensitivity towards the patient is reaping rewards. Alison Moore explains how it works

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation

    2008-06-26T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Former trust chief suppresses pay details

    2008-06-26T09:00:00Z

    The former interim chief executive of a hospital trust has stopped it publishing details of his pay.

  • News

    Regions braced for change as plans put Darzi's vision on map

    2008-06-19T09:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    GP to chair palliative care group

    2008-06-13T12:19:00Z

    Mayur Lakhani has been appointed as the next chair of the National Council for Palliative Care.

  • News

    Darzi review: East Midlands opts for local focus

    2008-06-05T14:50:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Darzi review: regions promise safer and fairer services

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    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'.

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on customer service

    2008-05-15T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Research and development network for Leicester

    2008-05-01T13:12:00Z

    A new network is being launched in Leicester to support and develop clinical research in the region.