Latest news – Page 1703
-
News
Annual health check: Johnson thanks top performers
Health Secretary Alan Johnson has written to congratulate chief executives at the 57 NHS organisations that have achieved the most consistent results in yearly assessments.
-
News
Foundations bear brunt of crisis
£7.5m lost in Icelandic banking collapseFears over the safety of surpluses from Treasury claw-backsBut opportunities for vertical integration
-
News
Annual health check: patient safety push fails to raise bar on hygiene
The NHS is failing to improve hygiene standards despite a major quality and patient safety push.
-
News
Annual health check case study: Salford
Salford is the only primary care trust to achieve double excellent scores, having improved its quality rating from good last year.
-
News
Annual health check case study: Dorset healthcare foundation trust
Dorset Healthcare foundation trust reached double excellent with an improvement in its resources rating from good in 2006-07.
-
News
Treasury eyes hidden PCT surpluses
Increased demand for health services as recession bitesTwo-year timetable for service reconfiguration and investmentSurpluses vulnerable
-
News
Healthcare Commission head looks back on a turbulent era
Anna Walker joined the Healthcare Commission with only two months until its launch. As it prepares to merge into a new super-regulator, she reflects on four testing years at the helm. By Charlotte Santry
-
News
Mental health response was united
You suggest there was a lack of criticism concerning the Today programme's story on secure care.
-
News
Patients need access to data
Your supplement on information was both interesting and useful, and I was pleased to see the NHS Information Centre puts patients and the public at the centre of its lovely diagram.
-
News
Politicians are poor persuaders
Interesting to see Simon Stevens' comments on the science of persuasion. Clearly our politicians have much to teach us about how to motivate the public - as demonstrated by the general (let alone local) election turnouts. Strange, isn't it, that people who have money, education and access to affordable leisure ...
-
News
The quest for the perfect NHS leader
Martin Marshall's analysis of the state of NHS leadership is only partially correct. Much more has been achieved than he gives credit for.
-
News
Patients' voices in danger of drowning in paperwork
Patients could be put off taking part in NHS outcome measurement by overwhelmingly long questionnaires, market researchers fear.
-
News
GP practice fights PCT over branch surgery
A GP practice is fighting a primary care trust, claiming it stopped its planned branch surgery because it would compete with another new practice.
-
News
West Sussex puts hospital plan on ice after backlash
A hospital reconfiguration plan has been suspended two years after controversial plans were first floated.
-
News
Trusts expect tight pinch from 2010
Real terms cuts expected to payment by results tariffTough road ahead for aspirant foundationsQuery over future of capital investmentStaff costs may fall in real terms
-
News
Annual health check: London's NHS trusts slide down rankings
London is falling behind the rest of the country for service quality despite launching its Darzi plan a year before other regions.
-
News
Develop minor injury/illness services
Research identifies that on average, 75 per cent of attendances at an emergency department are minor. In terms of policy and dynamic action, this majority is ignored. Yet by fully developing the minor injury/illness service, the pressure on emergency departments would be relieved.
-
News
GP earnings drop slightly
Average GP earnings before tax fell by 2.1 per cent between 2005-06 and 2006-07 to £107,667, a report from the NHS Information Centre has found.Although gross GP income increased by 1 per cent to £247,362 in that period, GP tax returns showed a 3.5 per cent increase in claimed expenses.
-
News
Wales sets out health spending priorities
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has set out priorities for spending increased health and social services funding. It is to go towards neonatal services, eating disorders, waiting times, mental health and autism.