All News articles – Page 1407
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New rules for providers on data
Providers will be contractually obliged to provide information to help commissioners decide whether they should continue to buy services from them.
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Patient data records proof 'patchy'
Evidence to suggest the NHS care records service will save thousands of lives is 'patchy', the government has admitted.
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The SHA interviews, David Nicholson: 'I can be direct. I drive things hard'
Laura Donnelly interviews the then new chief executive of London SHA
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Nuffield pulls out of theatres deal
The second wave of the Department of Health's independent sector treatment centre programme has been dealt a further blow, with Nuffield Hospitals pulling out of negotiations to provide mobile operating theatres across the West Midlands.
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Diagnostics deal delayed by five months
A £257m contract with an independent company to provide 450,000 diagnostic procedures a year may not start until September, five months behind schedule.
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Preferential pay-off deals protected
Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.
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Global fall in measles deaths
Deaths from measles have fallen by 60 per cent worldwide since 1999, according to the World Health Organisation.The fall in deaths from 873,000 in 1999 to 345,000 in 2005 beats the United Nations goal to halve measles-related mortality rates and is largely thanks to a 75 per cent decline in ...
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Scottish helpline implicated in two deaths
The future of NHS 24, Scotland's troubled nurse-led helpline, again looked in doubt last week after a judge concluded it was implicated in the deaths of two patients.
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'Micro-management' fears spark debate on regulation
Fears are growing that trusts could be shackled by increasing control from the centre as government and regulators attempt to get a tighter grip on performance.
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Simon Stevens on the great pbc debate
PBC is desirable but sadly not workable as a universal mechanism. It wasn't in the 1990s, and it isn't now
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Johnson stalls on Manchester decisions
Health secretary Alan Johnson has postponed a crunch decision on two contested service changes in Greater Manchester.
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Trusts declare on new ratings
Every trust in England has issued a public declaration of how they have performed against the core standards for healthcare. The information has been made available as part of the Healthcare Commission's annual health check of trusts, which have replaced star-ratings.
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Noel Plumridge on disinvestment and decluttering
What would NHS managers dump on the hospital lawn ready for the crusher or eBay?
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Deficits 'symbolic' of wider trouble
Financial failure in NHS institutions reflects a wider malaise, the Audit Commission has warned.
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Foundation governance definitely not kids' stuff
Monitor has stepped in to prevent a foundation trust appointing children as governors.
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Demand management 'not a panacea'
The NHS risks 'pinning too much' on the financial gains of demand management, a leading voice in primary care has warned.
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Lansley demands health inequalities drive
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has called for fresh policies to reduce health inequalities across London.