Latest news – Page 2841
-
News
Short cuts Move to deregister 'failing' consultants delayed
The General Medical Council has delayed a decision on setting up a scheme to remove consultants who fail regular competency tests from the specialist register. But the GMC is to press on with plans to make all doctors demonstrate that they are keeping themselves up to date and are still ...
-
News
Short cuts NHS acts to defuse GP telephone advice fees row
The NHS Executive has issued guidance to resolve a row with GPs over payment for telephone advice. Health authorities were told not to pay for telephone consultations in February, prompting anger among GPs in areas with large numbers of temporary residents. The new guidance says fees should be paid and ...
-
News
Short cuts 'Institutional barriers' undermine partnerships
Partnerships between the NHS and local authorities are frequently undermined by 'institutional barriers and insensitive management', according to a report from Manchester Business School, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's management innovation programme. It says managers and politicians need to 'move towards a more democratic form of government', ...
-
News
Short cuts Durham trust launches learning disabilities charter
Durham County Priority Services trust has launched a charter for patients and carers using its learning disabilities services. The charter, launched by the Bishop of Durham, sets out rights and standards that can be expected.
-
News
Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
-
News
The talking cure for poor performance
Counselling for managers By Nigel MacLennan Gower 296 pages £24.99
-
News
Pluralist approach to the promotion race
Evaluating health promotion Edited by Scott and Weston Stanley Thornes 168 pages £18
-
News
Theatre people
Cutting waiting lists depends on high levels of overtime by operating theatre staff, but this is no long-term solution to persistent shortages. Jonathan Edgar and colleagues report on a survey
-
News
A life in the theatre: survey results
All but one of the trusts identified current nursing and operating department assistant staff vacancies in their theatres. The number of vacancies reported ranged from four to 26 - equivalent to 10 per cent overall.
-
News
Hit or myth
It is a myth that managers motivate their staff. Surely, says Robert Keys, it's the other way round
-
News
Knowing who's boss
Is hierarchy the natural order for organisations or can a looser structure be just as effective? Andrew Wall examines the options
-
News
Take it from the top: Janet Snell gathers a range of views from health managers
Philip Sands, director of corporate strategy, Calderdale and Kirklees health authority
-
News
Reverse charges
No one knows what effect primary care groups will have on prescribing costs. But Frances Wilson explains how one health authority reversed a drugs overspend
-
News
Tailoring expected in guidance on working time for NHS managers
The NHS Executive is expected to recommend that all health service managers should be covered by the European working time directive, on which an advance letter is due next Thursday.
-
News
Mental health cash to target child services
Children's mental health services are to be earmarked for extra cash in the government's forthcoming mental health strategy, Department of Health officials confirmed last week.
-
News
Pro-family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
-
News
Tribunal rules that mental illness 'is a disability' under 1995 act
A mental illness is a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the employment appeal tribunal has held in a landmark decision (News, page 5, 29 October).
-
News
'No win no fee' stakes raised
The ink had hardly dried on judgments in three House of Lords cases which will increase damages awards by up to one-third in big negligence cases, when the Lord Chancellor decided on another reform which will mean higher legal costs for the NHS.
-
News
in brief
The Legal Aid Board has agreed, with immediate effect, that it can and will pay for mediation if a case backed by legal aid can be resolved that way. It had initially argued that, by law, its funding covered only traditional dispute resolution - by negotiation or litigation. Mediation could ...