All News articles – Page 1941
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Five angles on catching a killer
HSJ monographs Cancer services Specialist team from Royal Marsden Hospital, London 22 pages £12.99 To order call 01483-303017
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Aid boost for tribunal claimants
Health boards in Scotland should brace themselves for more employment tribunal claims - and more successful ones.
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Gin and bear it: upbeat in the face of adversity
Alan Randall from Eastbourne Hospitals trust was the only chief executive to speak to HSJ on the record about the demands of his job. He is surprisingly upbeat about working in a role which is both 'knackering and exhilarating'.
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Struck-off doctors accidentally listed on website
A website which claimed to be a guide to good doctors included two who had been struck off last year, and also wrongly described a third, according to the BMA News Review. The Good Doctor site, whose major shareholder is Alliance Unichem Group, included disgraced gynaecologist Richard Neale, who worked ...
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CHCs struggling to cope in countdown to abolition
Patients may be left in the lurch as complaints services begin to fall apart ahead of the planned formal abolition of community health councils in 2002.
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What the paper says
'Use of compulsory powers will generally only be appropriate if a person is resisting care and treatment needed either in their best interests or because without care and treatment they will pose a significant risk of serious harm to other people.'
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This Page is not for turning
Northumbria Healthcare trust and its chief executive, Sue Page, are hailed nationally as a model of co-operative working, yet grassroots staff tell a different story. Paul Stephenson finds out why
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Models for partnerships
Various models for public-private partnership are envisaged. For elective care, the concordat suggests that primary care groups and primary care trusts could rent accommodation from the private sector but use NHS staff, on their normal contractual terms, to deliver the service. Or a trust might 'sub-contract' the provision of a ...
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'Do not limit new models of scrutiny'
The NHS Confederation has given a guarded welcome to the Health and Social Care Bill's proposals for local authority scrutiny of NHS services.
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With PALS like these. . .
The framework for the patient advocacy and liaison service is there, but where's the detail, wonders Alison Moore
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Just keep it simple, stupid
Everywhere you look, performance measures are sprouting as the control freaks in Whitehall village seek to oversee every aspect of NHS activity. The old Soviet Union tried to exert this degree of control before the collapse of communism: it failed.We should learn from the comrades to keep it simple.
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Substantial pay hike likely for NHS laboratory staff
NHS staff not covered by the pay review body system are to receive a pay rise of 'at last 3.7 per cent', with substantial rises going to laboratory staff where there have been serious problems with recruitment and retention. Health minister John Denham said rises would be 'fair and affordable', ...
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Honour high
Many of those who have played a key role in delivering the NHS modernisation agenda found their work recognised in the new year honours.
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More frills than skills
Patients love the trappings of private treatment, says Anne Christie, but they may be less safe than in the NHS
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More joined-up working is the way forward post Langlands
Better regulation of health service professionals, more joined-up working across agencies, and targeted action in selected areas to improve equity of access are all needed to build on the significant progress made by the NHS under Sir Alan Langlands, according to the public accounts committee.