All News articles – Page 1960
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Lost and confused
Little is known about the needs of people entering nursing and residential homes. Research suggests that the NHS may be failing them, report Karin Janzon, Stella Law and colleagues
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COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Sandwell Healthcare trust Runners-up: Barts and the London trust; Stockport HA
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CLINICAL RISK INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Mid Sussex trust, medicines supply and discharge information project Runners-up: South Cheshire health authority; South Tees Acute Hospitals trust
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Litigation threat if CHCs go
The Law Society is backing community health councils in their fight for survival - and warning that abolition could increase litigation costs to the NHS and patients.
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PRIMARY CARE GROUP OF THE YEAR
Winner: Newham PCG Runners-up: Bradford South and West PCG; Oldham East PCG
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Seeing more clearly with CARATS
The success of the community assessment, rehabilitation and treatment scheme (CARATS) in Rotherham has shown how plans aimed at reducing unnecessary admissions and increasing early discharge can help in the long term, as well as relieving pressure at critical times.
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Man shot in car park of Oldchurch Hospital, Romford
A murder inquiry is under way after a man was shot in the car park of Oldchurch Hospital in Romford, Essex. Kenneth Beagle was hit in the head as he put money in the ticket machine at the hospital run by Havering Hospitals trust on Wednesday evening last week. A ...
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Capital reminder of PFI perils
Commons health committee probe may offer much-needed perspective
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Cancer snapshot 'falsely positive'
The NHS organisations chosen by the Commission for Health Improvement to provide a 'snapshot' of progress in reforming cancer services may offer a falsely positive picture, an HSJ survey has found.
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Call for sacking of chair who planned to reinstate sex pest
Unison is campaigning for the dismissal of a trust chair who was part of a panel which planned to reinstate a paramedic team leader sacked for sexually harassing a young female colleague.
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What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can infect and damage the liver. The virus is found in the blood of people who have this disease, and is spread primarily by contact with the blood of an infected person.The main route of transmission in the UK is by injecting drug misusers ...
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Getting friendly: hospital buildings of the future
Architecture practice Llewelyn Davies says the NHS has been trying to introduce sustainability in new hospital design 'within pragmatic limits'.
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Breaking the cycle
Some brave souls are arguing that a future petrol blockade could be just the impetus the NHS needs to rethink its attitude to environmental issues. Ann McGauran reports
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Fleet-footed 'Billy'Milburn faces down the ballet-hoo
It's usually water off a duck's back to me. But I would not deny that Alastair Campbell can be a pretty rough hooligan when it comes to trying to bully reporters or their editors with a dawn phone call. In the week of the Milburn 'concordat' with the private sector, ...