All News articles – Page 1977
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Fuel and health
After an NHS-wide red alert as a result of the direct action cutting off fuel supplies it may seem perverse to suggest some positive economic - and health - reasons for high fuel prices. But here goes.
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No more heroes
The requirement for a leader to be a charismatic superman was one of the mythologies debunked in a major survey on qualities needed at the top. Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and Robert Alban-Metcalfe report
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No more lonely heroes
Incoming IHM president William McKee attacked 'naming and shaming' and 'red lights' in his inaugural speech to the institute.
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Towards the ideal
The NHS was a role model for American health professionals. How has the NHS plan affected its perception in the US in different times? Howard Berliner reports
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Managers meet the management
The IHM, which represents NHS managers, lives in the shadow of the NHS Confederation. The media could never tell the difference: should they join forces? Tash Shifrin reports
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Ofsted revisited
Pilot reviews by the Commission for Health Improvement have shown the importance of healthcare managers, CHI director Peter Homa told delegates.
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One to watch
The trouble with public health annual reports is that no-one reads them. Will putting it on video get round the problem? Claire Laurent reports
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Standards hazardous to health lead to £12,000 fine for hospital
Leicester Royal Infirmary has been fined £12,000 for breaching health and safety regulations.
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'160 children may have been failed' by Bristol
The final clinical case review by the Bristol inquiry has suggested that more than 160 babies and young children may have been damaged or died as a result of poor standards of care between 1984 and 1995.
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Community cancer care nets £23m lottery funding
The new opportunities fund has awarded £23m in lottery funding to community cancer care projects, focusing on particularly vulnerable communities. The 91 projects receiving funding will benefit people who are socially disadvantaged, isolated or hard-to-reach, including ethnic-minority communities, young patients and carers, and elderly people. Cancer awareness initiatives, 'hospice-at-home'schemes and ...
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Milburn rejects CHCs'call for cash to oppose their abolition
Health secretary Alan Milburn has refused health watchdogs' calls to fund a judicial review of his decision to abolish them.
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HIV charities in merger to address changing needs
Two of the UK's largest HIV charities have come together in one of the largest single mergers in the voluntary sector. The Terrence Higgins Trust and London Lighthouse have merged to create the Terrence Higgins Trust Lighthouse, which will have a turnover of more than £8m. Grainne Morby, acting chief ...
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CHI adds trust to next review
A trust whose cardiology department was the target of a call for a Commission for Health Improvement investigation has been included in CHI's next review round.
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We'll meet again
Given the observation that up to 16 per cent of medical re-admissions are potentially preventable, it is not surprising that the proportion of emergency re-admissions within 28 days has been adopted as a quality and performance indicator by the UK government.
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NI's health is 'among the worst in Europe', says de Brun in cash bid
Northern Ireland's health minister, Bairbre de Brun, has joined a ministerial scramble for cash with a bid for a £274m increase in her department's funding.