News – Page 1654
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Patient involvement group claims lack of support
Local involvement networks are not being given enough support despite commitments in the government’s response to the Mid Staffordshire scandal, it has been claimed.
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Alan Johnson leaves Department of Health
Alan Johnson is to become home secretary in Gordon Brown’s post-election cabinet reshuffle.
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Government may take further powers over foundation trusts
The government is considering clawing back powers from foundation trusts in response to the Mid Staffordshire scandal.
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David Nicholson warns NHS: 'all bets are off'
David Nicholson has told HSJ “all bets are off”, as the health service prepares itself now for impending spending cuts.
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Czars to focus on cost cutting as well as quality
Reducing costs is becoming an integral part of the role of the Department of Health’s czars.
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NHS productivity unit role revealed
The NHS productivity unit will prepare the health service for the economic downturn with an initial budget of just £350,000.
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David Nicholson warns SHAs not to be defensive over visits
Strategic health authorities have been warned not to “guard the borders” if they want to get the most out of their assurance process.
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Treasury U-turn on PFI takes pressure off DH capital budget
A Treasury U-turn over accounting rules for hospitals built under the private finance initiative has given the Department of Health’s capital budget a reprieve.
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Few women doctors have board-level responsibilities, says RCP
Few women doctors have management responsibility at board level, a Royal College of Physicians investigation has found.
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Chief was 'misled' over A&E before quitting West Middlesex Hospital trust
A hospital chief executive was “misled” about pressure on its accident and emergency department, which led to her resignation, an internal report has revealed.
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CQC to name trusts with highest death rates
Trusts with unusually high mortality rates that have sparked inspections will be named for the first time, plans revealed to HSJ show.
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A decade of the national clinical directors - aka the czars
The NHS’s czars, or national clinical directors, have been hailed as a success.
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Trusts told to 'keep slogging' at infection control
Trusts are being urged to step up the “hard slog” of reducing infections by improving their assurance processes.
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Yorkshire and Humber commissioners accused of grilling gender change patients
Gender equality campaigners have accused Yorkshire and the Humber commissioners of breaching the Human Rights Act in its treatment of patients with gender dysphoria.
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Tories would get tougher on public health realities
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said a Conservative government would ask the public to take more responsibility for the lifestyle choices that create unsustainable demands on the NHS.
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Confed urges trusts to open up to avoid FOI deluge
NHS organisations are being urged to become more transparent in light of a steep increase in requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
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PCTs leave public on the policy sidelines
Primary care trusts are failing to put patients and the public at the centre of the very strategies designed to engage them.
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Graham Ramsay named Mid Essex trust's chief executive
West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust deputy chief executive Graham Ramsay is to leave to head up Mid Essex Hospital Services trust.
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Whistleblowing doctors in the dark over safety fears, says BMA
Nearly half of hospital doctors who reported a patient safety, malpractice or bullying concern to trust managers were left in the dark about whether anything had happened as a result, a British Medical Association survey has found.
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Birmingham mental health trust appoints medical director
Birmingham and Solihull mental health foundation trust has appointed a new medical director.