All News articles – Page 1891
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GMC votes for testing of doctors
The General Medical Council has agreed to ask the government to introduce legislation to ensure that all doctors will have to demonstrate their fitness to practice every five years.
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McCallum's demise is a meddle too far
DoH communications chief is, sadly, only the latest to show her exasperation
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GP gets four years in prison for defrauding NHS
A doctor convicted of defrauding the NHS of up to £4m has been sentenced to four years in prison. Dr Dimitri Padelis had charged trusts across England for services supposedly provided by his locum agency, Allcare. He submitted inflated and duplicate invoices to at least 77 trusts over several years, ...
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Scottish Parliament signals reluctance to meddle in decision-making at local level
The Scottish Parliament has sent a clear message to trusts and health boards that it will not meddle in local decision-making - provided the consultation process is proper.
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Dear Mel. . .
I have just heard Mr Blair talking about something called the University of the NHS.
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A touch of southern comfort?
Paul White, chief executive of Scotland's most troubled trust, has landed the top job at Barts and the London trust - a role that has plenty of potential to be just as much a test of character. Jennifer Trueland met him
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Team-work undermined by fund plans, say finance chiefs
The announcement that the £105m modernisation fund for acute trusts is to be locally controlled by medical and nursing directors has been attacked by finance directors as another central directive undermining managerial team-working.
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Media chief quits over 'total' ministerial control
Department of Health communications director Helen McCallum has left her high-profile Whilehall job because of the 'frightening level of ministerial control' thwarting her ideals.
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Lack of cash threatens mental health services
The delivery of improved mental health services in some of the poorest parts of London is being delayed because of lack of cash.
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Early discharge from intensive care heightens risks
The deaths of 39 per cent of patients moved out of intensive care to other wards could be prevented if they remained in the unit for two more days, according to research conducted in 20 UK intensitve treatment units. Researchers from St George's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, writing ...
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Risky business
Variations in referral rates present a challenge to primary care organisations. They could be reduced if some GPs changed their attitude to risk, say Gill Rowlands and Graham Lewis
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Tool shortages cause ENT wait-time breach
Patients around the country - many of them children - are having to wait more than the government's agreed time limit of 18 months for surgery, following difficulties buying disposable equipment for tonsillectomies.
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On the ethics border
NHS managers are about to acquire new responsibilities for policing medical research. How will they cope with yet another 'governance', wonders Toni Turner
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Surely Somme mistake as battle-weary troops hold their ground
You could be viewing this election campaign (still a whole week to go) as a dreary, control freak's dream, every move orchestrated by Labour HQ at Millbank and its rivals. There again, you could see it as a pleasingly chaotic shambles in which things go wrong all the time and ...