All articles by Ingrid Torjesen – Page 5

  • News

    GPs urge PCTs to remain flexible

    2008-03-13T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts will have to negotiate with family doctors over how to implement extended hours locally after the overwhelming majority of GPs voted to accept the government’s proposed deal.

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    GPs fail to help with appointments audit

    2008-03-13T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts have been unable to complete an audit of the number of GP appointments provided by practices because GPs have refused to hand over the information, following British Medical Association advice.

  • News

    Patient affairs lead is 'not a new czar'

    2008-03-06T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has appointed a new diabetes czar and a director of patient and public affairs.

  • News

    Free parking in Wales will cost trusts £5.4m

    2008-03-06T09:00:00Z

    Hospital trusts in Wales will lose up to £5.4m per year because the Welsh Assembly government has told them they must stop raising income from car parking.

  • News

    Doctors move to vote yes, under protest

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    GPs will be persuaded to vote yes to the government's offer on extended hours, according to a poll of GPs.

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    Ministers vs GPs: how did it come to this?

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    The GP contract talks have been played out for the public, with both sides taking to the airwaves. Ingrid Torjesen explores why a couple of extra hours a week has created such a conflict

  • News

    minimum gp core hours

    2008-02-15T13:22:29Z

    The Department of Health has no plans to set a minimum number of consulting hours GP practices should provide during their contracted core hours. As the government plans to set a minimum threshold for hours practices must be available for appointments outside the hours of 8am to 6.30pm Monday to ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Managing technology in the health service

    2008-02-11T09:00:00Z

    One side effect of new technology is increased cost. In the latest in our series celebrating the NHS's 60th anniversary, Ingrid Torjesen asks how the service should decide what it can afford to offer

  • News

    Johnson writes to GPs

    2008-02-05T11:24:06Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has written to GPs advising them to accept the deal the BMA rejected before Christmas or risk losing up to£35,000 of practice income.The deal would require the practices to provide an extra 30 minutes consultation time per week per 1,000 patients (around 3 hours for the ...

  • News

    Royal Marsden's cool heads and smart systems

    2008-01-17T09:00:00Z

    In the wake of the west London fire, Ingrid Torjesen looks at how the hospital coped and whether emergency planning has moved on since 7/7

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    Trusts in dark over 18-week progress

    2008-01-17T09:00:00Z

    'Early achiever' trusts still cannot say if they hit the 18-week target by the end of 2007, because of delays in upgrading their computer systems.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: winter bugs

    2008-01-11T09:00:00Z

    The message this week was that if you are a patient with an infection, stay well clear of the NHS.

  • News

    Hospitals' teamwork saves lives at Marsden

    2008-01-10T09:00:00Z

    When fire ripped through the Royal Marsden specialist cancer hospital in west London last week, the first phone call was to the fire brigade and the second to the Royal Brompton heart and lung hospital around the corner.

  • News

    Undercapacity to blame for cancelled operations in Worcester

    2008-01-10T09:00:00Z

    Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust has been forced to cancel more elective surgery than other trusts because the area has lost more acute beds than anywhere else in the country, according to the local MP.

  • News

    Marsden fire

    2008-01-08T11:48:26Z

    When fire ripped through the Royal Marsden specialist cancer hospital in west London last week, the first phone call was to the fire brigade and then to the Royal Brompton heart and lung hospital around the corner.

  • News

    EU plans for health tourism

    2007-12-20T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts may be able to save money on non-urgent procedures by encouraging patients to go abroad, under EU plans to create a Europe-wide free market in health services.

  • News

    DoH faces long bureaucracy battle

    2007-12-20T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has a long way to go to meet its commitment to cut the administrative burden on regulation of NHS services by 2010, the NHS Confederation has warned.

  • News

    One year on - has Gerry Robinson fixed the NHS?

    2007-12-13T10:00:00Z

    Has management guru Sir Gerry Robinson fixed the NHS, at least within the confines of Rotherham General Hospital, a year after dropping in with a TV crew for a management makeover show? Unsurprisingly, the answer is no.

  • News

    MP demands severance deal figure

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.

  • News

    DoH may wipe financial slate clean for 17 struggling trusts

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is considering wiping out historical debts of at least some of the 17 trusts it has classified as 'financially challenged'.