All Facilities management articles – Page 46
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HSJ Knowledge
Cooking up a storm
An organisation the size of the NHS has a huge responsibility to the environment and communities. But are trusts ready to do their bit? Kaye McIntosh investigates
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News
MPs launch contract cleaning probe
A cross-party parliamentary group is launching an inquiry into healthcare-acquired infections.
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Comment
Media watch: hospital phone charges
Those unlucky enough to spend Easter in hospital also had the misfortune of paying a whopping 26p per minute if they wished to call their loved ones. Not unexpectedly the tabloids and broadsheets were up in arms last week as they bemoaned the 160 per cent increase in hospital call ...
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Comment
Media watch: C difficile in Norfolk
The news on superbugs gets worse following reports that a mutant strain of Clostridium difficile has been linked to the death of 17 patients at a Norfolk hospital.
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HSJ Knowledge
The big C
The latest figures show C difficile rates are climbing. Alison Moore reports on what a major challenge for 2007 will bring
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News
Porritt berates NHS over slow progress on sustainable future
The NHS is moving at an 'incredibly sluggish and inadequate pace' to becoming sustainable and environmentally sound, green campaigner Jonathan Porritt has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Behind locked doors
The shocking state of some facilities at Broadmoor Hospital means staff struggle to provide modern care. Emma Dent talks to the people planning its redevelopment
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News
Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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News
Trust apologises for leak of payroll details
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust has apologised to 12,000 staff after a laptop computer holding their payroll details went missing.
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News
Scottish government reverses A&E closures
Two Scottish health boards have been given until the end of the year to come up with revised proposals after the new Scottish National Party government overturned decisions to close accident and emergency departments.
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News
South Staffs adds to foundation acquisitions
A mental health trust has become the second foundation trust to use its independent powers to take over provider services from another NHS organisation.
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News
£1.2bn Bupa hospital sale
Bupa, the UK's largest private healthcare group, has put all of its 26 UK hospitals up for sale in a deal which could fetch £1.2bn.
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News
PCTs pull plug on £550m hospital for Hertfordshire
Plans for new hospitals in Hertfordshire were in tatters this week after a £550m scheme to build a hospital and cancer centre in Hatfield were axed.
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News
LIFT-funded buildings pass 100 mark
The opening of three new health centres this week through the local improvement finance trust has pushed the NHS above the 100 mark in its LIFT-funded building programme.The 100th building to open was the £3m Longview Drive primary care centre in St Helens and was followed by two more in ...
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News
Lansley slams PFI 'lunacy'
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has described hospital private finance initiatives as 'complete lunacy' after government responses to his parliamentary questions showed that the NHS will pay private sector contractors £53bn for hospitals worth only £8bn. Mr Lansley is calling for a 'fundamental review' of how the NHS accesses capital ...
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Child visitors face ban
A hospital trust has drawn up contingency plans to severely restrict child visitors if patients are at risk from diarrhoea and vomiting bugs.
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Comment
Robert Greene and Paul Ray on foundation finances
Patient choice presents particular challenges for foundation trusts, so good revenue forecasting is needed, say Robert Greene and Paul Ray
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HSJ Knowledge
Positive risk-taking to end long-term stays
Mental health: Look Ahead Housing and Care
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News
Blair at Labour conference: 'Rebuilding not privatising'
The NHS is being rebuilt not privatised, Tony Blair told his last Labour party conference as prime minister.