All News articles – Page 1290
-
News
TB and hand hygiene feature in CMO's newsletter
The chief medical officer has sent his latest newsletter to all doctors in England.
-
News
NHS priority treatment for veterans
Health secretary Alan Johnson and veterans' minister Derek Twigg have announced major improvements to the support available to armed forces veterans who develop health problems as a result of their military service.
-
News
NHS underspends by £1.8bn
The NHS is heading for a record 1.8bn underspend this financial year, HSJ can reveal.The total surplus will be almost 2 per cent of the NHS budget. It is understood to be causing embarrassment at the Department of Health amid concerns that it will be accused of presiding over a ...
-
News
£98m parking fees 'immoral'
NHS trusts earned £98m from car parking charges in 2005-06 - a 26 per cent increase on the year before, figures presented to the Commons health select committee have revealed.
-
News
The answer to the age-old question of social care funding
The current adult social care system penalises people who have saved all their lives, but how will the government rectify this without breaking the bank? A coalition of 15 bodies believes it has pointed the way, as Niall Dickson of the King's Fund explains
-
News
Sir Liam blames overseas applicants for junior doctor crisis
The chief medical officer has batted off calls to resign over junior doctors' recruitment, blaming the crisis on a surge of overseas applicants.
-
News
Hospitals fail to assess risks of blood clots
More than 10,000 hospital patients died last year from blood clots because the NHS has failed to implement recommendations on deep vein thrombosis, say MPs.
-
News
MP attacks SHA over pay-off to disgraced Maidstone chief
The government has come under renewed pressure over the Clostridium difficile outbreak at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
-
News
Audit office eyes fate of ISTCs
The National Audit Office has confirmed that it is 'watching with interest' the Department of Health's cancellation of at least seven of the planned new independent sector treatment centre schemes.
-
News
Proposal to cut benefits to pay for care
Support for Sir Derek Wanless's proposals for a new social care funding system is growing and attention is now shifting to cutting a £3.7bn benefits bill to help pay for it.
-
News
Costs for super-watchdog set at 'bizarrely low' level
Questions have been raised over the 'bizarrely low', budget for establishing the new super-regulator.
-
News
Practice-based commissioning: PCTs blamed for sticking to old practices
Practice-based commissioning is being undermined by primary care trusts allocating funds to practices on a historical, rather than needs, basis, the Audit Commission has concluded.
-
News
Most trusts breaking the law on race equality
The Healthcare Commission will launch a review of NHS trusts’ compliance with race equality law, after it emerged most are not complying with the Race Relations Act.
-
News
DoH commercial directorate to be broken up and procurement localised
The Department of Health’s commercial directorate is to be scaled down and regionalised and procurement of NHS private sector capacity handed to local commissioners.
-
News
Night-time trauma care gets damning verdict
Managers should improve job planning to limit a huge drop in the quality of trauma care at night.
-
News
Patients could commission own healthcare, says Nicholson
Patients could soon be handed responsibility for commissioning their own care through individual budgets, the NHS chief executive has revealed.
-
News
Millions have undiagnosed lung disease
Almost 3 million people in the UK have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - more than three times those diagnosed, the British Lung Foundation has estimated.
-
News
EU law opens safety loophole for foreign workers
A new European law could undermine patient safety by allowing foreign health professionals to work in the UK with minimal checks, clinical representatives have warned.
-
News
Scotland health spending 'flatlining' for three years
Health services in Scotland are losers in the first SNP government's budget, seeing a real terms increase of just 1.4 per cent next year, a leading economist has warned.
-
News
Mental health: PCTs to target potential offenders
Commissioners will work closely with neighbourhood police to keep the mentally ill out of jail, the government's director of prison health has announced.