All News articles – Page 1921
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On the horns of a dilemma
Shared governance - a US term describing a process of involving staff at all levels in decision-making - could be one way of breaking the stand-off between nurses and managers.
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Food team digests local preferences
Plans for all hospitals to serve hot evening meals after 5.30pm have been watered down to reflect regional differences.
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Going to the devil
A significant proportion of managers are also nurses - but great suspicion still exists between the two groups.Andrew Cole delves into the background to the distrust
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Days like this
A survey of district general managers has found 78 per cent do not think the internal market reforms will tackle the NHS's funding problems,50 per cent say the reforms have diverted their energies from running the NHS and 25 per cent do not believe the changes will benefit patients.Philip Hunt, ...
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Experts query hospital rankings data
The launch of a consumer hospital guide ranking hospitals by death rates has sparked attacks on the quality of its data and the workload imposed on the NHS by private publishing company Dr Foster.
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Level crossings
Ever since Florence Nightingale arrived in the Crimea, nurses have been involved in managing health services. But these days nurses who take on managerial responsibility have a more ambiguous role.
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Wide open to criticism
Sometimes, it seems, managers go out of their way to live up to the stereotypes that nurses attach to them.
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Staffing crisis gives MSF second thoughts on public-private partnership for lab services
A decision on a public-private partnership for laboratory services in all trusts should be postponed for 'a couple of years' until staffing has stabilised, according to health union MSF.
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Confed's HR director in storm over working hours
Andrew Foster, human resources director of the NHS Confederation, is at the centre of a row with junior hospital doctors, who are furious at comments he made in the Financial Times, which implied that thousands of doctors were being deceitful about their hours of work. Mr Foster claimed that only ...
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Comedy of errors and misinformation
Management in Health Care By Neil Wheeler and Diana Grice Stanley Thornes 209 pages £19
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NHS claim record scrutinised
The questions of whether legal aid funds suitable cases, and of how well the NHS performs in defending and settling claims, should become clearer when the National Audit Office publishes a long-awaited report.
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'Cutting corners, cutting children'
The organ retention scandal saw a public apology from the chief medical officer last week as, yet again, the medical profession stands accused of acting with arrogance and insensitivity. Paul Stephenson reports
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Trust stands by paediatrician in Climbie case
A trust involved in the care of murdered eight-year-old Anna Climbie is standing by the paediatrician who diagnosed the child with scabies and sent her home to her abusers.
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Cleanliness inspection results may be swept under the carpet
Results of individual hospital cleanliness inspections may not be made public until after the election.
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Divergent care funding leaves England lagging
MPs have challenged health secretary Alan Milburn over the government's refusal to fund free personal care for nursing home residents in England, leaving them worse off than their counterparts in Scotland.
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Handle with care
How the NHS treats its workforce is now seen as central to recruiting and retaining staff.The health service is on notice to deliver.Ann McGauran reports