All News articles – Page 2086
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Milburn looks to policy implications of Shipman
Health secretary Alan Milburn has moved to defend the family doctor service after the Shipman murder trial.
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Variable interest
Given a government obsessed, some would say, with inspection in the NHS, what will the Audit Commission's future role in healthcare be? Lyn Whitfield reports
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Lawyers in row over mediation
Lawyers have clashed over why government-funded research into the use of mediation to stem a rising tide of NHS litigation failed to attract a significant number of cases.
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List target strategy is 'misconceived'
The government has come under renewed fire from the King's Fund for its 'misconceived' strategy on waiting lists.
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Time is money
A trust which audited the contribution of its volunteers found it was worth thousands. Paddy Browne reports
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Moving story
An adult placement scheme for residents of a long-stay hospital that is due to close has provoked controversy, writes Colin Wright
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Old testament
PCGs are ducking their responsibilities if they cling to the argument that older people are not interested in consultation on services, say Margaret Edwards and Emilie Roberts
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Saddle up, pardner
A lot of people still need convincing that the arranged marriage between local government and the health service will be mutually rewarding. Maura Thompson sat in on their joint conference
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Right on queue
Conservative Party leader William Hague and chair Michael Ancram launch a poster attacking the government's record on waiting lists.
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Time for tea
An elderly patient tucks in while waiting for a bed at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, during the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales' annual Casualty Watch on Monday. The longest waits revealed by the snapshot of 240 accident and emergency departments were both at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow: ...
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WEBWATCH
Few healthcare organisations in this country have managed to create the sort of virtual professional communities to which the Internet seems so well suited. It will come - but first people have to conquer the reticence that leaves so many discussion forums with enough significant silences to fill a Harold ...
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£30,000 for new board doctors
GPs who lead the first primary care trusts stand to receive more than £30,000 a year on top of their existing salaries.
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£10m available for cancer waiting-time initiatives
The government has announced that £10m will be made available for nationwide initiatives to cut cancer outpatient waiting times to support its two-week waiting-time pledge. Public health minister Yvette Cooper said most hospitals would use the money to streamline booking systems, while others would invest in additional staff and equipment. ...
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First 141 supernurses announced
Trusts across England have been given approval to create 141 nurse consultant posts, in a move the NHS Confederation hopes will lead to new top grades for other clinical staff The first wave of supernurse posts, announced by health secretary Alan Milburn last week, was selected from more than 300 ...
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Managers ignored abuse claims for two years
Managers ignored claims that mentally ill patients were being abused by nurses for more than two years, an inquiry at Tolworth Hospital, Surrey , has revealed.