All News articles – Page 1323
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Government remains ever loyal to Evercare
The Department of Health is standing by a scheme to keep frail and elderly patients out of hospital, despite a critical study which cast doubt on the model's effectiveness.
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Pilots lead way in new era of high-tech 'telecare' at home
Three primary care trusts will be chosen next month to deliver hardware worth thousands of pounds to the homes of patients with long-term conditions, according to Department of Health head of primary care Gary Belfield.
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Minister unveils social enterprise start-up fund
A £73m social enterprise fund will be given to start-up social enterprises in health and social care, according to health minister Ivan Lewis.
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Surrey social enterprise prepares for launch
England's largest so-called 'social enterprise' offering healthcare services will launch in shadow form on 1 August.
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New push to engage with staff on reform
The government is creating an advisory group to 'provide strategic advice' on reform of the health and social care system.
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Minister: end third sector 'mutual loathing'
Commissioners have been urged not to hold third sector health services at 'arm's length'.
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Emergency services warning
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts should not be left to redesign emergency services locally without national planning, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro has warned.
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LIFT eight times more expensive, MPs told
Primary care trusts are paying up to eight times as much per patient for GP surgeries built by local improvement finance trusts, a report from the Commons public accounts committee has found.
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Effective health messages
For some people, being classified as ill or disabled is not such a bad thing
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Targeting health - a duty of well-being
Councils can make the most of their powers to build healthy communities, by making sure local shops sell affordable and accessible healthy food, says Saba Salman
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Plans dropped to rate senior managers
Chief executive Anna Walker said the commission had spent months developing the indicators, which flag up leadership failures.
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Efficiency drive lies at the heart of PM's uncompromising message
The prime minister's interview with HSJ this week poses important questions for health service managers. Among the familiar - the NHS is important, managers do a good job - are some more subtle but pointed messages.
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Non-execs step down from troubled trust
Three non-executive directors have stepped down at a trust beset with financial problems and controversy over possible service changes.
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RCP: don't measure medics on HES
Trust data is 'not accurate enough' to monitor the performance of individual consultants, the Royal College of Physicians has warned.
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Don't leave unhappy medics to stew
'And there will be more points of conflict to come, such as the issue of where doctors work as opposed to where they are needed.'
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Laura Donnelly on honesty and political risks
'Admitting that the NHS does not always offer a 'world-class service' is a high political risk'
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DoH opts out of traffic light rating for PCTs
The Department of Health has decided not to give primary care trusts an overall traffic-light rating at the end of fitness for purpose assessments.
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DoH: public health must 'focus on outcomes'
NHS public health professionals must become effective commissioners and beef up their analytical skills if new joint strategic needs assessment work alongside local government is to be effective.
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Doctors slam reform plans
Doctors would not be prepared to pay to be regulated by a body which did not represent their profession, the chair of the British Medical Association has said.