All Mental health articles – Page 187
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DoH puts safety first
The Department of Health has issued a report on improving support patient safety in the NHS.Safety First - a report for patients, clinicians and healthcare managerssays the National Patient Safety Agency should be 'refocused' on collecting and analysing information through its national reporting and learning system, and that this should ...
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Call for National IT programme revamp
The British Computer Society has called for a major re-evaluation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.The society's health informatics forum says the programme has achieved some significant successes around infrastructure, but has slowed the deployment of local systems. It also says elements of the NHS Core Records ...
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Seasonal gloom at the BMA
The British Medical Association has picked up on health secretary Patricia Hewitt's comment that the NHS has had its 'best year ever' by publishing its own review of the Best of Years, the Worst of Years.Overall, it says that while there have been some ...
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Comment
A year in review: catching up with the excess in 12 turbulent months
2006 has been dominated by efficiency drives and government reforms. Financial problems began to bite and the public took to the streets over attempts to revamp local services. Amid the financial storm, NHS chief executive Sir Nigel Crisp resigned and only two trusts got top marks in the Healthcare Commission's ...
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NICE chair calls for implementation push as GPs warn of drug companies' influence
The chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has floated the idea that it should spend more on ensuring guidance gets implemented than it does on producing the advice.
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Private provider queries future of comprehensive NHS care
The NHS will be forced to abandon its founding principle of providing a comprehensive service 'free at the point of delivery' by 2015, a leading private sector provider has predicted.
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Operating framework: updated principles put new emphasis on dignity
The Department of Health is consulting on a set of 10 principles to which all NHS organisations and contractors must sign up.
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DoH accepts 'double deficit' argument, but no decision yet
The government has said it accepts the case against the 'double deficit' accounting system for acute trusts - but has delayed a decision on whether to scrap it until the end of this financial year.
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Lord Warner retires
Prime minister Tony Blair has announced the resignation of health minister Lord Warner, who has decided to retire.Mr Blair complimented Lord Warner on an 'outstanding' contribution to health service reform, while the minister described his three-and-a-half years at the Department of Health as 'busy and enjoyable'.The NHS Confederation said Lord ...
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Nicholson says £250m surplus should be delivered by 2008
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said the NHS should achieve a net surplus of £250m by the end of 2007-08. Other priorities, set out in an operating framework for 2007-08, include 85 per cent of patients admitted for hospital treatment and 80 per cent ...
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HSJ Knowledge
David Lee on drugs and safer services
There are no magic wands when it comes to combating illicit drugs on our wards but the drug dogs pilot has certainly given us plenty to think about in our ongoing struggle for safer services.
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Public sector managers 'must have more flexibility in determining pay'
A major change to the pay and reward system within the NHS and the rest of the public sector is needed to achieve serious improvements in delivery, the Confederation for British Industry has said.In a new report, the CBI has concluded that greater incentives must be created for public sector ...
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Hewitt announces new medical research centres
Eleven new biomedical research centres of excellence have been announced by health secretary Patricia Hewitt.The centres, which will focus on translational research, will be partnerships between NHS acute trusts, foundation trusts and universities.Read more here
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HSJ and NT launch NICE guidelines service
HSJand Nursing Timeshave teamed up with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to launch a service to help managers and nurses implement NICE guidelines. In the new year HSJand NTwill ...
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New handbook for black and ethnic minority mental health workers
A new handbook dealing in the 'nitty gritty' of life as a community development worker in mental health has been produced for black and ethnic minority staff.The booklet aims to clarify guidance issued by the government in an attempt to broaden the mental health workforce.More details ...
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Nicholson pledges to devolve 90pc of resources to local NHS
NHS chief executive unequivocal about huge transfer of budgets from DoH
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Scottish mental health delivery plan published
The Scottish Executive has published a mental health delivery plan, including basic mental health training for everyone who works with children, halving admissions of children and young people to adult beds and reducing anti-depressant prescribing and repeat hospital admissions for mental illness.To read the plan click ...
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HSJ Knowledge
The future of the NHS complaints procedure
Reforms to the complaints process are intended to produce a fundamental shift away from attributing blame. Tony Yeaman explains