All News articles – Page 1354
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Jessica Crowe on love at a local level
'Lay scrutiny can act as a stimulus for real change and innovation - especially where local authorities and health bodies work closely together on a long-term basis'
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Health Foundation extends Safer Patients Initiative
Twenty hospitals will today receive £165,000 each under a scheme to improve patient safety. Funded by the Health Foundation charity, the Safer Patients Initiative will see a tailored package of support for each hospital including access to international experts. The four hospitals in the scheme since its launch in 2004 ...
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New role for former Audit Commission chair
James Strachan, until recently chairman of the Audit Commission, has been appointed a non-executive director of Care UK PLC.One of the largest health and social care providers in the UK, Care UK operates 90 community-based care homes, runs a range of primary care services including GP out of hours services ...
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Law on small claims goes ahead
A fast-track, low-cost scheme to resolve clinical negligence claims up to £20,000 without litigation has received royal assent.The NHS Redress Act will see the NHS Litigation Authority run a scheme to determine fault and decide after a trust has carried out a fact-finding exercise into an untoward incident. Patients accepting ...
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Public 'don't want NHS ads for services'
Voters are overwhelmingly opposed to government plans to let hospitals advertise, according to a survey conducted by YouGov for the NHS Together alliance of health unions.The Department of Health is expected to publish a code of practice allowing hospitals to market their services under the era of choice.But the poll ...
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British Heart Foundation launches 999 campaign
The public is being urged to call 999 immediately of they experience chest pain, warning that 'doubt kills'. A survey commissioned by the British Heart Foundation found that 40 per cent of people would not make 999 their first call if they thought they were having a heart attack.Read more ...
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Pay rates for PCT public health directors published
The Department of Health has issued supplementary guidance to its pay framework for very senior managers, covering director of public health posts in primary care trusts.The guidance pegs PCT public health directors' pay at 70 per cent of the pay of their chief executives, but says other arrangements may be ...
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Mental Health Bill introduced
The government has moved swiftly to introduce the mental health bill announced in the Queen's Speech.Health minister Rosie Winterton and Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe published the bill yesterday, highlighting its provisions to provide 'more protection for the public and patients'.The bill will introduce a new definition of 'mental disorder', ...
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NICE faces judicial review on Alzheimer's drugs
Two drug companies have threatened to take the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to judicial review.Eisai Limited, the licence holder for Aricept, and Pfizer Limited, its 'co-promotion partner', claim the process that led NICE to refuse to endorse the drug's use for NHS patients with mild Alzheimer's disease ...
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Northern Ireland smoking ban begins 30 April
The legislation allowing Northern Ireland to introduce a ban on smoking in enclosed public places has completed its progress through parliament and will come into effect on 30 April next year.Northern Ireland health minister Paul Goggins said his office would work to build support for the legislation and issue guidance ...
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5,000 'social enterprise pathfinders' come forward
Care service minister Ivan Lewis used social enterprise day to announce that more than 5,000 people have shown interest in becoming 'social enterprise pathfinders' in health and social care by looking at the application pack.The £1m pathfinder scheme is intended to support social enterprises that want to develop innovative services ...
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Youth offending
The continual inability of the NHS to engage with this group of young people is a core reason why inequalities will never be adequately tackled (HSJ 9 November). The NHS is governed by moral choices and offenders do not score highly on the morality stakes.
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A formula for unfairness
With a significant proportion of NHS trusts in financial difficulty and many of those reporting ward closures and job losses, the financial health of the NHS emerged as one of the key political issues of 2006.
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Healthier lives but ever-widening inequalities: what price progress?
While London's spearhead primary care trusts look likely to meet their national targets on inequalities, there is a growing differential in specific disease areas and between geographical areas which threatens to undermine long-term advances. Daloni Carlisle reports
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Medics warned off community work by cash-strapped trust
A financially troubled hospital trust is warning consultants not to carry out NHS work in the community unless there are guarantees that payments stay with the trust.
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Service-line economics goes to the heart of patient care
As we reveal this week, foundation regulator Monitor will be consulting trusts on compliance guidance to push the adoption of service-line economics (feature, page 22).
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Trusts warned not to axe acute beds prematurely
Mental health trusts have been warned not to cut acute beds until their community services are fully developed.
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Government passion cools on £50m safe-sex drive
The government appears to have abandoned its pledge to spend £50m on safe-sex campaigns.
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Turnaround help for a third of acutes as deficits reach £1.2bn gross
More than one-third of all acute trusts and a quarter of all primary care trusts are receiving turnaround support as it was revealed that deficits in the NHS are climbing again.
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Queen's Speech reignites row over mental health legislation
The government used yesterday's Queen's Speech to confirm that it will introduce a bill to reform mental health legislation, following its decision to abandon plans for a new mental health act in March.The bill will introduce a new definition of 'mental disorder', a new 'appropriate treatment test' and supervised community ...