All Government/DH policy articles – Page 142
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Comment
Public health needs a long vigil
Public health must be protected from short term raids on its funding by acute services
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Comment
'Time to consider the benefits and flaws of the single minded pursuit of targets'
Medicine, it has been suggested, is as much an art as a science.
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Comment
'I am now chairing the Andrew Lansley Action Squad'
‘As you can imagine it’s a busy time with new directives coming thick and slow. The team members have become adept at scratching their heads, then armpits and finally groins as they try to work out how to operationalise the sophisticated actions that arise from the no top-down reorganisation reorganisation ...
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News
NHS London revives Queen Mary's Sidcup closure plans amid patient safety concerns
NHS London has recommended “temporarily” closing the accident and emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
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HealthWatch must have no monopoly
The Care Quality Commission has warned that the government’s new patient advocacy service must not “crowd out” the views of other patients’ bodies.
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News
Pace of public spending cuts 'not set in stone'
The pace and scale of public spending cuts is not set in stone and could be changed if the policy fails to rescue the economy, a Liberal Democrat cabinet minister has said.
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News
Scots twice as likely to die from alcohol
Scottish people are more than twice as likely to die as a result of alcohol than those born in England and Wales who live north in Scotland, new research suggests.
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NHS has 6,500 staff paid more than PM
More than 6,500 employees working in the NHS are paid more than the Prime Minister, it has been disclosed.
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Scottish life expectancy improving
Life expectancy levels are increasing but Scotland still has some of the lowest rates in Europe, official statistics showed today.
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News
HIV cases predicted to rise
The NHS is braced for a sharp rise in patients seeking treatment for HIV, figures show.
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News
Royal London drops 'homeopathy' from its title
A London NHS hospital is dropping the word homeopathy from its title, it has been announced.
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Government warned over rate of job losses
The government has been urged to approach spending cuts like a middle-distance runner rather than a sprinter, making sure that most public sector job cuts take effect after 2013.
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Comment
Jon Restell on why managers are worth it
“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” But words can hurt - words can burn like acid.
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Comment
Why many hands make IT work
New Zealand’s shared learning model offers lessons on implementing the electronic patient record system
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Leader
Conflicting messages from the top hint at growing resistance
Have the tone of messages from the NHS chief executive and health secretary ever been as different as those emerging from Sir David Nicholson and Andrew Lansley? At last week’s health questions in the House of Commons, ministers got stuck into “pen pushers”. Contrast this language with Sir David’s latest ...
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News
IT shake-up leaves key components unaltered
A shake-up of NHS IT announced by the government has left key elements of the national programme for IT unchanged.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pool together for a flexible future
Integrated provider agreements may need to be renegotiated or abandoned as the implications of the health white paper make themselves felt
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London in talks over PCT mergers
NHS London and the Department of Health are in talks about merging London’s 31 primary care trusts into just six bodies, HSJ has learned.
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Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has paved the way for primary care trusts to be merged as a means to make significant savings while implementing the health white paper.
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Well-paid bosses using trust's low rent housing
NHS Grampian has been forced into a policy rethink after it emerged bosses on six-figure salaries had been living in low-cost staff accommodation, according to a local newspaper.