All News articles – Page 1913
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Home in on the range
How can staff give comprehensive advice if they are not aware of the full spectrum of services they can offer? One trust set up a database to help them.
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Inhale and hearty
Exercise, chilly lessons, bodybuilding, meals of suet and porridge - a new book recalls the heyday of the open-air school for sick children. Our woman with the frozen ink: Tash Shifrin
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Health inquality targets
The Department of Health has bitten the bullet and set national targets for reducing health inequalities. Achieving them is likely to prove difficult and beyond the scope of the NHS alone, says John Appleby
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Support from top in tight IT funding round
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has acknowledged that this year's tight NHS spending round may impact on IT spending - and urged frontline managers to inform the centre if they are losing out.
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There is more to incentive than six figures
So Dr Briony Lovett feels that only £102,000 or more constitutes the 'carrot of a decent income' ('The seven-year hitch', pages 26-29, 8 March). The reality of private practice is that it is focused among a relatively small number of medical specialties.
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'Postcode lottery' of support as PALS take divergent routes
Patients are facing a 'postcode lottery' of support as early patient advocacy and liaison services adopt widely differing approaches.
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Radical shake-up on learning disabilities
Health secretary Alan Milburn hopes that the first white paper for 30 years on learning disabilities, launched this week, will begin a 'revolution in care', increasing opportunities for the estimated 1.4 million service users and their carers.
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national director
Mr Blair announced the creation of a post of national director for primary care services, which will be filled by Dr David Colin-Thome, currently part-time director of primary care at London regional office.
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Time to debate the future of research in PCTs
We are a small, multiprofessional group of clinicians, currently trying to drive forward research programmes in the NHS.
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Dear Mel. . .
What is the world coming to? I am shocked at the management changes at Stoke Mandeville hospital. What's wrong with having loads of patients on the suspended list? Doesn't everyone do it? Surely It is time the government woke up to the fact that it is funding and facilities which ...
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Days like this
Sack threatened over trust bid. . .'Sweeteners'for start-ups. . .HAs 'freezing'patient numbers. . .CHCs unhappy on role. . .Booked appointments
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Mike Cooke
Mike Cooke, currently chief executive at Runcorn's Halton General Hospital, has been appointed chief executive of the new South Staffordshire Healthcare trust, which becomes operational on 1 April.
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Trust defers decision on maintenance contract
Salford Royal Hospitals trust has deferred a decision on whether to transfer medical equipment maintenance at Hope Hospital to Draeger Medical in a £1m-a-year deal, following concerns from Unison and MSF. North West Unison regional officer Stephanie Thomas said: 'We believe on the basis of a management report that the ...
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Primary concerns
Delegates at the NHS Alliance spring conference didn't exactly grasp the GP retention incentives with both hands. Paul Stephenson reports
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Czar warns that fast community follow-up is key to saving lives
Major changes are needed in the community follow-up for patients recently discharged from psychiatric hospital - even if it means existing patients see the community team less frequently, says the mental health czar.
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Choice words
The election manifestos of the medical and nursing lobbies reveal a determination to confront the 'unmentionable'. Mark Gould discovers their passions
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Panorama gives NHS plan a 'reality check'
In what the BBC has called a 'reality check', this Sunday's Panorama puts the NHS plan under the spotlight after two months of filming at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.
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Hospital trusts warn of chaos as medical secretaries threaten strike
Two hospital trusts are warning of chaos in coming weeks because of the threat of industrial action by medical secretaries over pay.