All News articles – Page 1222
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Trust ends contract after pay nightmare
University Hospital of North Staffordshire has withdrawn from its contract with a payroll provider after months of mistakes in the pay packets of hundreds of staff.
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PCT-backed integrated care pilots to go ahead
Lord Darzi's primary and community care strategy, due today, will push for integrated services and new rights for primary care trust provider staff.
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DH behind in Olympic planning race
Senior managers have attacked the Department of Health for failing to face the health and safety challenges of the 2012 Olympic games.
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Board members resign from troubled Scarborough trust
Three board members have resigned from the troubled Scarborough and North East Yorkshire trust.
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Leadership roles for clinicians get a boost from Darzi
Lord Darzi's workforce strategy unveils sweeping reforms to workforce planning and education.
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Darzi bowls us a googly
Lord Darzi's final report is a welcome boost for quality of care but fails to address the quality of those key local NHS responsibilities that lie beyond healthcare settings.
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HSJ talks to Gordon Brown and Lord Darzi
While the past 10 years of NHS reform were designed to increase capacity, the next task is to increase quality and personalisation and give more power to clinicians and patients. Gordon Brown and Lord Darzi explain their plans to Richard Vize
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Lansley slams Darzi's 'bureaucratic' regional roles
Greater influence proposed for strategic health authorities has raised fears about regionalising the NHS.
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Unions call for caution on direct elections move
Unions have called on the Scottish government not to divert money from frontline care by introducing direct elections to NHS boards.
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Managers put faith in Darzi's clinical vision
Managers believe Lord Darzi's vision for the NHS, where quality is financially rewarded and commissioning is the lynchpin of the service, is achievable within the next 10 years.
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Proper incentives for clinicians
At Imperial College Healthcare trust we have been looking at how we might develop the idea of rewarding performance and achievement.
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Conservatives will support parts of Darzi review
The Conservatives have welcomed parts of the Darzi review, saying they will support proposals that chime with their policies.
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Make it count for mental health
Lord Darzi has set out a far-reaching vision for the health service. Giving people who use health services for long periods control of their own budgets can revolutionise healthcare in this country.
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Darzi and patient power
There is no doubt Lord Darzi is a distinguished surgeon, respected and trusted by professional colleagues. And this is at once the strength and weakness of his final report.
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Polyclinic debate
How depressing to read HSJ's leader which claims the British Medical Association's campaign trades on fear and ignorance.
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Hospitals may lose out in plan to make funds follow student
The shake-up of education and funding for training proposed by Lord Darzi could have a 'major destabilising impact' on established teaching hospitals.
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Governors and governance
We welcome Monitor's report on its survey of foundation trust governors and agree there is still some way to go in making governance as effective as it needs to be.
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Universal service
The rules that have generated the present set of stories about people being refused cancer treatment do not apply to patients.
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Managers called on to heed maternity standards
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has called on NHS commissioners and managers to follow a comprehensive set of maternity standards in their service and workforce planning.