All Mental health articles – Page 189
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Just the end of the beginning for Monitor
With 62 members, the foundation movement is coming of age. Monitor chair Bill Moyes offers a compelling picture of where foundation trusts are heading, and outlines his vision for the regulator's future
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Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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Comment
MALCOLM LOWE-LAURI on Boards and Barricades
The best boards are where the debate involves all the players, is messy but retains a sense of form
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Order in the house: will legislation strike the right balance?
The supervised community treatment order is the latest legislative tool aimed at tackling 'revolving door' patients. But does it go too far? Mark Gould hears the pros and cons
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'Balance right' on revised mental health bill
The government is digging its heels in over the Lords' amendments to the Mental Health Bill.
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Hewitt vows to end mental health 'bail-outs'
Patricia Hewitt has pledged that mental health trusts will no longer have to 'bail out the overspenders' in the acute sector.
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Time to tear ourselves away from paper
Trusts' reluctance to store patient records electronically is a national scandal which is draining resources, harming patient care and limiting the potential of historical archives, argues Capita's Robert McIndoe
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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Data briefing: How length of stay varies by SHA area
There is growing demand for new and innovative indicators to measure variations in performance between acute trusts. Length of stay measures include indicators of excess bed days, analysis over time and giving lengths of stay for specific diagnoses or procedures.
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John Appleby: New thinking on health variations
Arguments about what we get for our billions of NHS pounds rumble on. The Department of Health's latest analysis - noted here last month - claims the extra billions have essentially been spent on extra staff. We could take it to be a good thing - if the job of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Stronger links between annual health check and peer review
Links between peer review and the annual health check are to be strengthened, following discussions between the Health Commission and Information Centre.
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Anna Donald on doctors' motives
'The NHS needs doctors firing on all cylinders, not retreating to their duvets'
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Anna Donald on consumer information
'Patients must indeed be patient. The term 'patient-led' invites disbelief that patients are going to lead the NHS'
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Anna Donald on lessons from Australia
'The NHS can't avoid political controversy, because what it does is too important, complex, and subject to debate'
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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HSJ Knowledge
Andy Burnham to launch Information Centre business plan
Andy Burnham, minister of state for delivery and reform, will be the keynote speaker at the launch of the Information Centre for health and social care's business plan 2007/08 and information strategy.
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Simon Stevens on the lost art of analysis
'Explaining NHS Deficits detonates many of the most powerful urban myths surrounding the NHS'.
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Nursing chief is good and bad cop all in one
The Royal College of Nursing's general secretary, Peter Carter,.has altered its stance on reconfiguration, plurality and the wisdom of heckling Hewitt. But he promises fierce opposition to poor management and short-term cuts