All News articles – Page 1170

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    NHS trusts to plan local workforce

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    NHS London has pledged to put trust managers in charge of workforce planning after a power struggle sparked by the next stage review.

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    Mental health lacks national vision

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Mental health plans arising from the next stage review lack ambition and risk being 'lost' as the service focuses on other sectors, managers are warning.

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    Moyes warns: invest in governance

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Foundation trusts have been warned they are not investing enough time or money in memberships and boards of governors. The Department of Health may reassert its control if an organisations cannot prove it is locally accountable, said Bill Moyes, executive chairman of regulator Monitor.

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    Patients to get final say on who sees NHS records

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    NHS Connecting for Health has bowed to sustained pressure and changed its consent model for the summary care record.

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    Learning disability housing plans at risk

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    The pledge to shut all 'outmoded' NHS homes for adults with learning disabilities by 2010 is at risk, HSJ has learnt. Poor quality local proposals have been blamed for slow progress on the commitment.

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    Emma Dent is humbled by medical ingenuity

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    It may have come to your attention that I have something of a cynical nature. And unfortunately writing about health policy has done little to stem that. But when someone acts in a truly humane way to help those worse off than them, even I can stop being world-weary long ...

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    Lib Dems unveil plan to slash NHS managers' pay

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Senior health managers should be forced to reapply for jobs and take pay cuts as part of a public sector cost-cutting drive, the Liberal Democrats proposed at their annual conference in Bournemouth this week.

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    Prescription drug marketing comes under debate

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Organisations representing patients, medical professionals and consumers are calling on the European Commission to rethink proposals to allow drug companies to provide information direct to consumers.

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    Stroke services improving - Royal College of Physicians

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown. The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds.

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    Northwick Park Hospital cleared over maternity deaths

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    An investigation into maternal deaths at Northwick Park Hospital has found the trust innocent of any wrongdoing.

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    Sophia Christie on management lessons from literature

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    While the 1980s saw an explosion of books promising 'the management secrets of...', War and Peace seems to have been sadly neglected. But Tolstoy's commentary is instructive in the context of current discussions about the next stage review.

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    Charities warn on information prescriptions scheme

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Charities in information prescription pilots have warned the scheme risks failure unless it is mandatory and supported by incentives.

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    Lord Carter to head up NHS competition panel

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Lord Carter of Coles is to be the first chair and director of the NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel.

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    Integrated care warning

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Integration is in vogue. This is fine, but different enthusiasts interpret 'integration' differently. Confused enthusiasm is never a good thing on which to base health policy. At its best, such confusion could waste money; at its worst, it could cost lives.

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    Whitehall will pay buildings costs on ISTCs

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has said it intends to pay any buy-back costs for independent sector treatment centres - taking a massive financial burden off primary care trusts.

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    NHS Litigation Authority to increase legal fees

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    The NHS Litigation Authority is set to increase the fees for its clinical negligence scheme for trusts next year in the face of rising legal costs and compensation payouts.

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    Mental health takes wrong approach

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    The improvements to community mental health services found by the Healthcare Commission are to be commended, but not without a word of caution regarding the 350,000 service users who are shortly to be removed from the care programme approach in the coming months, as they receive only 'standard' rather than ...

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    Andrew Lansley backs value-based drug pricing

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Pharmaceutical companies should be paid according to the benefits that their drugs bring to patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.

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    Data quality requires careful analysis

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    Your article on the King's Fund's report into variations in primary care trust spending raises several issues. Although the data we used does allow an insight into spending, we warned that a degree of caution should be exercised with the figures. Data quality is an issue and so too is ...

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    Winning formula for resource allocation

    2008-09-18T09:00:00Z

    The research cited in your article on resource allocation understates the extent to which the existing formula adjusts for age and wealth relative to deprivation. The hospital and community health services formula, for example, allocates more than 10 times as much for people aged 85-plus as it does for those ...