All News articles – Page 995
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NewsNHS Atlas of Variation highlights service value
The NHS Atlas of Variation further highlights the pressure on the NHS to restrict access to some services and medicines.
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NewsCompetition panel bans exclusive provider deals
Exclusive framework agreements between commissioners and providers have been dealt a major blow by an NHS cooperation and competition panel judgement.
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NewsUK heart surgery survival best in Europe
Patients undergoing heart surgery in England and Wales have a greater chance of survival than many other European countries, a report has suggested.
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NewsBMA warns managers not to instruct consortia
British Medical Association GPs committee chair Laurence Buckman has attacked primary care trusts and strategic health authorities for attempting to control the creation of fledgling GP consortia.
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NewsBritnell warns on NHS efficiency
Changes in the economic mix will result in less room for manoeuvre in the NHS, according to KPMG global head of health Mark Britnell.
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NewsData shows DH consultancy spending fall
Department of Health spending on management consultants fell by 69 per cent in the first five months of the new government, according to data released under its open government policy.
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NewsLittle potential for drugs waste
Primary care trusts have been warned relatively little savings can be made by cutting medicines waste.
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NewsSouthern PCTs least efficient at referral
Primary care trusts in the South experience more unnecessary referrals than those in the Midlands and the North, data analysis by Dr Foster and HSJ suggests.
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NewsCommissioning consortia told to buy in admin support
Department of Health commissioning lead Dame Barbara Hakin has said commissioning consortia should outsource many of the responsibilities inherited from primary care trusts.
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NewsLansley moves to replace Monitor chair
The health secretary will begin recruiting a new chair of Monitor in the next few weeks and make an appointment early next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMid Staffs advised to shed some services
A report into the future clinical strategy of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has recommended it should no longer run a number of services.
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Hint at debt free start for commissioning consortia
A minister and senior Department of Health official both hinted that strategic health authority surpluses will be used to ensure commissioning consortia do not start life saddled with primary care trust debts.
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News'Huge concerns' remain over Mid Staffs care
A campaigner whose mother died at an NHS hospital criticised over disastrous standards of care today told an inquiry she still has “huge concerns” about the treatment of vulnerable patients.
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NewsHospital cleanliness requires 'radical improvement'
Rapid improvements need to be made in the cleaning of hospital equipment in Scotland, inspectors have said.
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NewsWasted prescriptions cost £300m
Unused prescription medicines cost the NHS at least £300 million a year, figures show.
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NewsDon't lose sight of productivity during winter, warns Nicholson
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has warned managers they need to “maintain a strong grip” on productivity and performance during the coming winter pressures.
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NewsRoyal College of GPs appoints new chief
Neil Hunt has said he is looking forward to leading the senior management team and staff at the Royal College of GPs after being appointed its new chief executive.
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NewsLansley denies reforms have caused PCT 'meltdown'
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has denied primary care trusts are in “meltdown” as a result of his reform plans.
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NewsPCTs need to up game on out of hours coding
Many primary care trusts do not always record whether out of hours patients go on to hospital and need to improve clinical coding in this area, according to a report by the Primary Care Foundation.
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NewsBritish Heart Foundation to answer questions in live chat session
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is to answer questions from the public on their health policies and campaigns in a live blog on 24 November.