Latest news – Page 2842
-
News
Job scheme under attack from union
Greenwich Healthcare trust has been reported to the National Audit Office for allegedly misusing public money to develop a
-
News
Demand for boards and trusts to share list cuts
Health board general managers and trust chief executives will be expected to 'sign up' to their share of the Scottish waiting list cuts target.
-
News
Calman questions screening needs
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman used his final annual report to question the value of some of the 100 screening programmes in place across the NHS.
-
News
Scottish GPs demand more say in reforms
GPs have called for a bigger say in the government's reform of the Scottish health service.
-
News
Northern Ireland at risk from fraud
Northern Ireland could be losing millions of pounds a year through fraud in primary care, a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office has concluded.
-
News
Super idea puts paid to talks
Managers are miffed that they were not forewarned about the government's 'nurse consultants' plan, and are wondering how it will affect the already complicated pay discussions.
-
News
Minority action
Trusts believe in the principle of equal opportunities - the policies are there to prove it - but only a minority know how to put them into practice. Thelma Agnew reports
-
News
Take a walk on the wild side
Does a trade union background help prepare you for management? As the TUC meets this week in Blackpool, managers who were once activists talk to Patrick Butler
-
News
Back to Beveridge
The Liberal Democrats believe they have a blueprint for reassessing the welfare state. But nowhere does their latest health policy paper say how much it would all cost.
-
News
Lib Dems: beware bringing the local touch to health Any pretence at providing a truly national service would be abandoned
People queued in the street to buy copies of Sir William Beveridge's weighty tome on establishing the welfare state when it was published in 1942; the BBC broadcast its recommendations to Europe in 22 languages. The fanfare greeting the Liberal Democrats' nine-page policy document, Moving Ahead, was a little more ...
-
News
Farewell to internal market folly Did it really exist? And has it gone for good?
It preoccupied the NHS's 1 million staff for years on end. It provoked heated debate among the public - and their implacable suspicion - on a scale rivalled only by the poll tax. Now it's consigned to the dustbin of history it appears not to have had much impact on ...
-
News
In charge - with consensus
Consensus management is emerging as a model for primary care groups. This dangerous trend must be stopped.
-
News
'Forming, storming and norming' our way into a better state of health
Beenstock and Walsh ('Going through the change', 3 September) identify many problems that newly commissioned primary care groups will encounter during their formative period. But PCGs' biggest challenge will be to build themselves into effective teams.
-
News
Potential conflict of interest should rule out co-opting HA finance chiefs on to PCG boards
I was interested to read 'Divide opens over PCG governance' (News, page 3, 20 August), but take exception to Derek Day's comment that he welcomed the paragraph saying senior health authority finance managers could be co-opted on to primary care group boards. I assume he is referring to paragraph 51 ...
-
News
Judge London Ambulance Service on today's record, not years gone by
Your article on the London Ambulance Service's multi-lingual phrasebook and cultural awareness handbook (News Focus, 27 August) unfairly presents them as attempts by a 'beleaguered' service to improve its image.
-
News
Stroke resource pack puts condition on map
Could I congratulate HSJ on two excellent articles on stroke and especially 'Pressure Point' by Carol Cooper (Managers & Medicine, 27 August). She really hits the nail on the head. For too long stroke has been the Cinderella condition. The Stroke Association is pushing for better services for patients, and ...