All News articles – Page 1904
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Fox pledge to banish 'postcode lottery'
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has described health authorites as a 'bureaucratic burden' - and promised an end to the 'postcode lottery' of treatment should his party win the election.
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BMA to ballot GPs over mass resignation proposal
All GPs are to be balloted by the British Medical Association on whether they would be prepared to resign from the NHS in a year's time. The decision to ballot was taken by the BMA's GP committee, which wants to know if GPs would be prepared to take action if ...
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NHS Confederation backs better prison healthcare
Calls for action to boost standards in prison healthcare have been backed by the NHS Confederation. The organisation was responding to a report by the British Medical Association, which said the service was in crisis, arguing many doctors and nurses were leaving prisons because working conditions were so poor. Sandy ...
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Shopping around for new models
Improving the environment for 'customers' and making their experience of the organisation better are not issues confined to the NHS.
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Separation angst
Single-sex wards are not strictly part of the PEAT work - but are a continual source of complaints and concern, says the Patients Association. 'We have seen not just mixed-sex wards but patients in corridors waiting for Xrays with their bums hanging out, ' says assistant director Simon Williams, who ...
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Scottish Executive highlights large spending variations among trusts
The gap between the financial performance of Scotland's acute trusts reached 23 per cent in the last financial year, according to a report by the Scottish Executive.
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PCGs confident of normal service despite calls for GPs to take action
Primary care organisations are not expecting any significant disruption to GP services next week or in the near future, despite calls for GPs to take action on 1 May and recent campaigning by the British Medical Association to cut GP workload.
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Medical secretaries act over pay grading
Medical secretaries across the NHS could resort to industrial action as anger deepens over their continuing grading dispute.
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Birmingham: 'Some people have never accessed NHS dentistry'
Birmingham doesn't have a problem with the total number of NHS dentists available, only with the locations of services.
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Apex urges RCN staff to accept revised pay offer
Royal College of Nursing staff are being advised by their union Apex to accept a revised pay offer of 4. 8 per cent following a dispute over changes to their pay formula. Apex is recommending that the 700 staff agree to the uplift, though the existing pay formula would have ...
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Trust fears a £4m shortfall in equipment funding
University Hospitals of Leicester trust is predicting a £4m shortfall in funding for medical equipment. Trust medical director Dr Allan Cole told a board meeting that the trust needed £8m 'just to stand still', but has only £4m to spend. 'The funding for emergency medical equipment has always been inadequate. ...
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Alder Hey compensation claim could run to £15m
The Alder Hey organ retention scandal looks set to spark one of the biggest compensation claims in the history of the NHS. Parents of children whose organs were retained are seeking compensation payments from Alder Hey and Liverpool University which could cost the health service £15m. Around 500 parents have ...
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£1bn investment targets 'not achievable'
The government's £1bn investment plans for primary care premises are unworkable and cannot be achieved within the timescale set, according to a national survey of GPs and managers reported exclusively in HSJ.
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Some things wicked
The NHS plan promised a change in the quality of leadership. Carole Doherty reflects on the practicalities of achieving that ambition
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Socket to them
The NHS does an outstanding job making artificial eyes for patients who need them. But, as Laura Donnelly discovered, There is a lot more to the service than that
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The Sheffield story
Four rehabilitation resource centres in Sheffield, one for each primary care group area, will eventually offer different aspects of rehabilitation to older people. Resource centre project manager Gill Greenwood says: 'We are developing different things at different times. 'Eventually each will offer a rehabilitation wing, a hospital discharge wing, a ...
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Winter pressures
Over the winter there was only one story to be written about the NHS - why is not there a winter crisis? The latest report from the winter and emergency services team (WEST) confirms part of the answer - no influenza.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: John Appleby Job: Health systems programme director, King's Fund Style: Everyone's fave economist - except Number 10's, perhaps. His 'precision'analysis showed up the flaws in Tony Blair's pledge - sorry, aspiration - to raise the share of GDP spent on health to EU levels, and was apparently seen as ...