All News articles – Page 1906
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Changing the scrip
A team of pharmaceutical advisers persevered in the face of GP resistance to increase generic prescribing and foster a support network of other health professionals. Linda Dodds reports
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Root cause
The new boss at the Modernisation Agency has pleased staff by reassuring them that he will not relocate to London - for personal and professional reasons he wants to stay near his roots. Maura Thompson reports
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Raid on cash for child mental health service
Psychiatrists are furious that the final year of government money for improving services for thousands of children with mental health problems is effectively being lost - because the money is no longer ring-fenced.
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Care pathways urged for patients with head injuries
Health authorities should be forced to collect data on the incidence of head injury and their plans for dealing with patients who have been affected by it, the Commons health select committee has claimed in a report. With improved medical techniques, many people are surviving these injuries and need long-term ...
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Wake-up calls
Political infighting has dogged debate on where a Wakefield hospital should be built. But work being done in the health action zone is overcoming the rivalry and bringing agencies together, writes Paul Stephenson
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Family doctors give lukewarm response to 'work to rule' call
A campaign by the British Medical Association urging GPs to 'work to rule' and ditch extra paperwork caused by the introduction of the national service frameworks appears to have met a lukewarm response from doctors on the ground.
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Call to update pay and role of non-executive directors
Pay for non-executive directors and chairs should be increased from the £5,000 a year set in 1990 to its equivalent value of almost £7,000, according to a report from the NHS Confederation.
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in brief
The Legal Services Commission has made much of the recent change under which only specialist solicitors may now take clinical negligence cases on legal aid. But recent figures from the commission seem to show that the specialists have got worse, not better. In 1996-97, members of specialist panels had a ...
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Thinking out of the box
At the heart of the NHS, say Chris Foote and Paul Plsek, is a culture of charity and only when there is a genuine partnership between patients and professionals can the NHS plan succeed
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Ex-Bedford boss welcomes post at the sharp end
The chief executive who stood down over the Bedford bodies-inthe-chapel case has been given a two-year post, initially as a secondment, within the region to oversee workforce and training issues.
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NHS could help boost New Deal
The government's New Deal programme for getting people into work has an important role to play in NHS recruitment and helping the health service to become more representative of local communities, according to employment minister Tessa Jowell.
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Scottish boards 'could be used by councillors as political platform'
The first detailed picture of Scotland's new unified NHS boards, announced last year in the Scottish health plan, has begun to emerge. HSJ has learned that the boards, intended to be responsible for all the NHS services in their area, will have what is potentially a strong political element.
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Government gives in on council care trust board representation
Health minister John Hutton has conceded that local councils can nominate their representatives on care trust boards, after local government organisations last week threatened outright opposition to the trusts being established.
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Quest beyond the clinical boundaries
Research in Health Care Concepts, designs and methods By Julius Sim and Chris Wright Stanley Thornes 320 pages £25
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London Tube chief set to return to NHS as troubled trust beckons
The managing director of the London Underground is poised to leave his high-profile role and take a pay cut to return to the NHS as chief executive of Hammersmith Hospitals trust, HSJ understands.