All News articles – Page 1191

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    Career coaching: put a positive spin on work

    2008-07-21T09:00:00Z

    Sessions with executive coach Dorothy Larios encouraged one manager to address the demotivators in her working life

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    DH commercial policy director joins Ernst & Young

    2008-07-18T13:07:00Z

    Ernst & Young has appointed Andrea Longhi, until recently the Department of Health's commercial policy director, as a new partner in its healthcare practice.

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    Health select committee announces patient safety probe

    2008-07-18T12:58:00Z

    MPs on the health select committee are to conduct an inquiry into patient safety.Committee chairman Kevin Barron announced yesterday that the investigation would start in the autumn.

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    Councils not prepared for ageing population - Audit Commission

    2008-07-17T13:41:00Z

    Councils are not prepared to meet the needs of their ageing population, a report from the Audit Commission says today.The commission used a 'mystery shopper' exercise to test how well councils dealt with the demands of over-50s for services such as leisure and transport. It found that those facing the ...

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    MRSA rates fall 30 per cent

    2008-07-17T13:34:00Z

    MRSA bloodstream infections fell by 30 per cent last year - the greatest annual reduction in the last five years - new figures published by the Department of Health show.

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    Capita wins NHS Choices contract

    2008-07-17T13:29:00Z

    Capita has been selected to run the NHS Choices website on behalf of the Department of Health over the next three years.

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    New funding system for third sector

    2008-07-17T13:24:00Z

    Care services minister Ivan Lewis has outlined new funding arrangements for third sector organisations wishing to provide health and social care services.

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    Respite for Scottish carers

    2008-07-17T13:15:00Z

    Carers in Scotland will receive an extra 10,000 respite weeks between 2009 and 2011, health minister Shona Robison announced today as part of the Scottish Executive's policy to increase support for unpaid carers.

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    Massive variation in Ritalin prescribing

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    There is a 23-fold difference in the rate at which children in different parts of England are prescribed Ritalin to control their behaviour, figures seen by HSJ reveal.

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    Interim management notes

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    As an ex-interim manager for primary care trusts and the Department of Health, I would like to comment on Paul Fleming's article.

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    Trust says go-it-alone plan is reinforced by IT review

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    The chief executive of a foundation trust installing IT outside the national programme has said its actions are validated by last week's informatics review.

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    Public health gets lift from social marketing

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is to boost access to public health training and population profiling tools to help embed social marketing principles in health improvement work.

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    Happy staff equal happy patients

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    Healthcare organisations with happy staff are more likely to have satisfied patients, the Healthcare Commission has revealed.

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    Lawyers fire warning shot at doctor ratings website

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    The founder of a website that allows the public to post comments on doctors has insisted he has safeguards to prevent publication of defamatory allegations.

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    Non-urgent phone number debate

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    Ambulance Service Association director Liz Kendall is right when she suggests a non-urgent phone number to sit alongside 999 is necessary. Like her organisation, we also think a single number for urgent care is needed.

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    Trusts stare published death rates in the face

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    Hospital public relations departments have given the Department of Health a mixed review after it published mortality rates for four kinds of operation last week.

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    Councils warn over planned PCT merger

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    Council leaders have attacked proposals by NHS London to merge primary care trust commissioning functions in the capital.

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    Data shortfalls hinder world class commissioning efforts

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trust managers have warned that poor data is preventing them making progress on world class commissioning.PCTs told HSJ they felt they had no choice but to commission outside firms for 'social marketing' research on the health needs of their local population. Others said they thought data on services ...

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    Private orthopaedic clinic fined for registration breaches

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    A court has fined the company that runs a private orthopaedic clinic for breaching the conditions of its registration as a healthcare provider.

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    Chief medical officer's annual report confronts surgical safety

    2008-07-17T09:00:00Z

    Survival rates 30 days after surgery should be analysed and made public, the chief medical officer has demanded.