All News articles – Page 2000
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Don't look now
In the face of the national shortage of laboratory services should doctors restrict their requests for tests, asks David Garrioch
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Fading from the scene - an unworthy end for HAZs
If this once-cherished initiative is to go, ministers must tell us straight
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Welsh waiting lists record rise and fall in numbers
Welsh waiting lists have dipped again, falling 400 in the month to the end of July to 80,111.
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It's good for systems to talk
'It looks like we are inventing the wheel again, and it's going to be square'
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Less is more
That the NHS plan has so little to say on mental health is actually a sign that the government is pretty much on the ball in this area. Laura Donnelly explains the paradox
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Minister steps in to organ row
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has agreed to meet parents and relatives of babies and children whose organs were removed and kept by an NHS hospital.
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monitor
Great to hear that even bouncer Milburn's special advisers have a sense of humour! Hard to imagine, though! Still, news in from one of Monitor's special friends to reveal that the day after the NHS plan emerged, the following message was heard on the answerphone at special advisers HQ: 'Our ...
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in person
Peter Coles , acting chief executive of Forest Healthcare trust, is to become chief executive of the new Whipps Cross Hospital trust when it is formed next April. The new trust will manage the general hospital services currently run by Forest Healthcare. Mr Coles was previously chief executive of the ...
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Serving from the shadows
It's not always a fair and open process, nor is it always straightforward. Judith Smith and colleagues report on appointments to PCG boards
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Turning up the volume
London's large Bengali population is benefiting from a local Bengali-speaking audiology services worker. Brian Hall and Dr Tony Sirimanna report
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WEB WATCH
For an organisation which tends to attract managers at an early age and keep them for life, the NHS has never been that good at maintaining a collective memory. Its tendency to look for scapegoats when things go wrong and willingness to sacrifice whole generations of managers to organisational change ...
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'No shows' bill may top £185m
Patients' failures to keep GP appointments could be costing the NHS up to £185m a year, according to a survey by Doctor Pat ient Partnership and the Institute of Healthcare Management.
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GMC flexes muscles in bid to curb abuses
The General Medical Council has used newly acquired powers to suspend or restrict three doctors while investigations take place into suspected poor performance.
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Current accounts
Little has been done to redress the imbalance in research funding which favours large teaching hospitals at the expense of smaller units, say Anne Lacey and Margaret Fall
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In Brief: 'action for equity in Europe' statement
Stephen Hawkins, acting chair of Liverpool health authority, and Mike Storey, leader of Liverpool city council, have signed the World Health Organisation's 'action for equity in Europe' statement, which commits them to addressing inequalities in health. Mr Hawkins said this showed the HA's 'commitment to delivering real action'.
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After 'Enery, whatever next?
We may love him, but should an ex-pugilist spearhead a health campaign?