All News articles – Page 1871
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Running out of excuses
COMMENT: West London breast screening service is in need of outside intervention
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Too hot to handle?
WARD MANAGERS: People who manage wards feel their accountability is being increased while their control of resources is being diminished. Claire Laurent reports
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Turning up the heat
NEWS FOCUS: Since devolution, senior health service managers are ever more likely to receive a grilling from a government committee, and be asked to justify every action.Can they prepare for this, or is it a case of practice makes perfect? Jennifer Truela
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High street lows
PHARMACY SERVICES: Do the local pharmaceutical pilots spell the end for the community pharmacy? Richard Lewis investigates
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SOCIAL INSURANCE
DATA BRIEFING: What would happen if the UK moved from a tax-based health system to one that is insurance based? John Appleby points out some of the misinformation being peddled by the campaigners
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If looks could kill
NEWS FOCUS: The number of organisations jostling for the right to audit parts of the NHS has reached epidemic proportions.But if the future brings a cull, where will the knife fall? Lyn Whitfield takes a look
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Paying the list price
NEWS FOCUS: A clinical governance review report highlighted a catalogue of serious flaws in the management of Epsom and St Helier trust and, as Maura Thompson reports, someone had to be held accountable
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IN PERSON
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has appointed Dr Andrew McCulloch as its head of policy, from October 2001.He has been a senior adviser at the centre for the last five years, and was a senior civil servant with responsibility for mental health policy at the Department of Health from ...
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Soul survivors
SPIRITUAL CARE: Meeting spiritual needs is a crucial aspect of caring for elderly people. But do staff in care homes understand what is meant by the term, and do they accept responsibility for it? Helen Orchard and David Clark investigate
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Evolution not abolition for CHCs
Government proposals for a revamped patient and public involvement system will see a shift in emphasis from the abolition of community health councils to a 'transfer' of their responsibilities, HSJ understands.
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Devious ways to get shot of union activists without even a whimper
MACHIAVELLI RETURNS FOR THE SUMMER WITH HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS
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Triumph for best practice as A&E trolley waits are slashed by NPAT
Trolley waits at 16 accident and emergency departments have been slashed through an initiative headed by the National Patient Access Team.
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Morale lifts at troubled Oxford A&E
Commission for Health Improvement reviewers last week visited the troubled accident and emergency department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where staff are reporting improvements in morale.
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'Scapegoat'claim after Tayside vote
The chair of Scotland's most troubled health body, NHS Tayside, has denied he was put under pressure to act over individuals named in a damning report on the area's health services.