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Developing responsive and efficient patient-centred processes
Many organisations are still centred around.core business functions, but client- and patient-focused organisations also need to focus on how they support core processes, writes Stephen McLaughlin
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Practice-based commissioning: a potent remedy
Look at the positive elements and get practice-based commissioning rolling, urge Michael Dixon and colleagues
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TB prescription charges to be scrapped
Prescription charges for drugs to combat tuberculosis are to be scrapped.
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Charity reports on homophobia in the NHS
The experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual NHS employees have been published by the charity Stonewall.
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Report examines young people's attitude to sex
A report on sex, drugs, alcohol and young people has been published by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV.
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Cast your vote on Gordon Brown
Don't forget, now is your last chance to take part in HSJ's reader survey on what the NHS can expect under incoming prime minister Gordon Brown.
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Supply agreement promises greater efficiency
The first national framework agreement for the supply of operating leases has been published by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency.
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NHS must not be run 'like a 1960s nationalised industry'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt rejected the idea that the NHS should be run by an independent board.
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Children's charity criticises 'confused' Mental Health Bill
The Mental Health Bill presents a 'confused picture', children's mental health charity YoungMinds has warned. The charity is concerned that 700 children per year voluntarily admitted to psychiatric wards will be left without an independent voice.
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Public services face 'very tough' future, warns CIPFA boss
Confidence in public services could well decline following the government's autumn spending round, new president of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy John Butler has warned.
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Study reveals extent of elder abuse
New research revealing the true extent of abuse suffered by older people in the UK was released today by Comic Relief and the Department of Health.
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Scientists join row over access to patient records
Medical researchers were branded 'cavalier and arrogant' while giving evidence to the health select committee's electronic patient records inquiry last week. The researchers, answering questions from MPs, argued that they should not always be obliged to ask patients' permission to see their medical records.
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NHS organisations advised to prepare for 'corporate killer' stigma
NHS boards have been warned to prepare themselves for the implications of the Corporate Manslaughter Bill, which is currently working its way through Parliament.
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Will next month's ban fire up PCT stop-smoking services?
With the smoking ban just days away, the government points to huge funding boosts for smoking cessation, but is the money hitting home? Daloni Carlisle reports
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LINks scrutiny system to bar patient networks from access to key services
Local involvement networks, set to replace public and patient involvement forums, will be denied access to mental health facilities, children's care homes and non-communal areas of residential care homes.
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Weekly scrutiny for SHAs: junior doctor recruitment will be top priority
Strategic health authorities are to be scrutinised each week over their handling of the next round of the controversial recruitment process for junior doctors.
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Study points to QOF gaming
A government-funded study has found GPs are gaming their quality and outcomes scores to increase their income.
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Trusts face monitoring on take-up of private services
Primary care trusts in the North West risk being performance managed on the number of patients who use the private sector-operated national clinical assessment services across the patch, HSJ has learned.
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Service cuts urged at non-PFI hospitals
Primary care trusts wanting to reconfigure services were given a stark message in an economic analysis prepared for the NHS in London: financially, it will make sense to cut beds and services at non-private finance initiative hospitals.
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Bill exposes flaws in plans for greater patient involvement
'One of the strengths of the local involvement networks was supposed to be that, rather than examining the services in a particular institution, they could range across a whole area to gain a rounded view of all aspects of services users' experiences'