All News articles – Page 1192
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NHS managers must fight back with facts and figures
I do wish health service managers would fight back with some hard facts and comparisons about the value of their contributions.
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Carers behind bars
Thank you Julia Tabreham for putting a spotlight on 'carers behind bars' - prison inmates giving routine care to others who are elderly, vulnerable or ill.
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New body set to improve public health profile
A 6,000-strong campaigning organisation has been formed from the merger of two existing public health groups.
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NHS North West leads the way with bonus scheme
Acute trusts in the North West are to be paid bonuses for performance against a series of clinical quality measures.
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Bruce Keogh outlines quality comparisons plan
Plans to expose bad care and poor patient safety are to be taken forward with a consultation on the first NHS quality framework.
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Insurance model on the cards for elderly care
The Conservatives are considering insurance-based schemes to fund care for the elderly as a way to defuse the 'demographic time bomb'.
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Care vs security in mental health services
Excitable media coverage means the public is in fear of mental health service users. Should a very low level of security be accepted or should the emphasis shift towards public safety? By Charlotte Santry
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Welsh health minister Edwina Hart moves centre stage
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has axed the internal market and put herself centre stage in a wholesale reform of the country's NHS.
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Complaints staff desert Healthcare Commission
The Healthcare Commission is struggling to cope with the hundreds of complaints it receives each month from patients as staff desert the watchdog ahead of next year's regulation changes.
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Direct response to payment by results
The development of a tariff, designed with significant clinician and stakeholder involvement, is a direct response to NHS feedback that the current classification system does not appropriately recognise the range in complexity of procedures and treatments and current clinical processes.This is its main, and as the article recognises, laudable aim.We ...
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It takes resources to tackle health inequalities
As primary care trust chief executives in the Core Cities group - England's eight largest cities outside London - we would like to reply to your article on resource allocation.
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Tories: Labour using NHS money for votes
The government is 'manipulating' the NHS funding allocation formula to 'shore up' votes in areas loyal to Labour, the Conservatives have claimed.
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HSJ online debate on world class commissioning - tomorrow
Don’t forget to tune in to HSJ’s free, interactive, online debate on world class commissioning tomorrow morning at 9.30 (2 October).Expert speakers include Gary Belfield, Simon Stevens and Andrew Donald. It will be essential viewing for all those looking to achieve world class commissioning.
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Wales announces radical NHS reforms
Wales' eight acute trusts and 22 local health boards will be replaced with seven unified primary and secondary care organisations under a reform programme that scraps the internal market.
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Scotland next to review NHS top-ups
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has today pledged to review Scottish policy on topping up NHS care with private payments.
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Children's mental health services 'inadequate'
Young people with mental health problems are receiving inappropriate and inadequate care on adult wards because of a continuing shortage of hospital beds and facilities for people under 18, a report by the Children's Commissioner for England says.
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Age Concern seeks views on older people's care
Age Concern is seeking views on how to improve the quality of care and support for older people.
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UK government launches global health strategy
A strategy setting out how the UK government will work with the World Health Organisation and EU to improve world health has been launched.The strategy identifies health security, strong and fair health systems, more effective international health organisations, freer and fairer trade and stronger use of evidence as areas for ...
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No single mental health service for Wales
A separate organisation for Welsh mental health services will not be formed, Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has said.
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Data shows rise in Scottish QOF scores
Figures published today show the average number of points earned by Scottish GPs under the quality and outcomes framework is 982.2 out of 1,000, up from an average of 971.2 points in 2006-07.