News – Page 1698
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Dr Foster to take on NHS Choices with rival site
A private company is about to launch a free hospital data website for patients which could be more comprehensive than the £20m a year NHS Choices site.
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Statistics lay bare inequalities in mental healthcare
The most comprehensive set of data ever collated on hospital and community mental health services has revealed stark variations in the levels of care being offered to different sections of the population.
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£400m spending limit forced on NHS
NHS organisations will be permitted to spend just 400m of their 1.7bn surplus next financial year and will not get the full increase in resources pledged to them by the Treasury.
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Perfect chief eludes West Midlands SHA
NHS West Midlands has failed to appoint a chief executive despite carrying out interviews.
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Trafford Healthcare trust urged to restore confidence
A trust that withdrew the offer of a chief executive's job two weeks after announcing the appointment has been told it should be open about the reasons.
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Luton and Dunstable owns up to errors in E coli fallout
Luton and Dunstable Hospital foundation trust should have been better prepared for the fallout from the media and damage to its reputation from an E coli outbreak, its chief executive has admitted.
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Inverse care law exposed
Congratulations HSJ, for exposing the inverse care law operating across the UK, and Brent in particular. It is precisely in the most deprived areas like Brent that the census-based data which feeds the funding formula most underestimates the true population that the local NHS strives to serve.
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Retirement rights
'If you are male and 40, you will be able to recall the registration numbers of every car you have ever owned'. True, but I should warn Ali Mohammed that when he reaches 50, he may still remember the numbers of every car he owned up to 40, but not ...
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Changes to the Mental Health Act
Major changes to the Mental Health Act came into effect last week. The new legislation is a milestone in the reform of mental healthcare.
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Healthcare IT debate
The recent report from the King's Fund on healthcare IT doesn't reflect reality. It believes the NHS should learn from banks and even travel firms about innovating with IT but ignores the huge movement required in the public's acceptance of healthcare security.
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How are NHS top-ups going to affect your services?
The announcement that patients may top up their NHS care with unapproved treatments means managers face overseeing segregation of patients and tough commissioning decisions. Helen Crump reports
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Proposed supertrust could start life £200m in the red
A new supertrust could provide health services throughout much of south east London from next April - but would start life with a debt of more than £200m.
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Spectre of past mistakes looms over GP access push
The £250m programme to provide new GP-led health centres in every local area risks repeating the mistakes made when independent sector treatment centres were set up, academics have warned.
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Edwina Hart delays reform schedule in Wales
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has accepted that the wholesale overhaul of the NHS in Wales will not be complete until next October.
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HSJ50 2008 unveiled
HSJ’s ranking of the 50 most powerful people in NHS management policy and practice in England has been revealed.
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NHS Direct chief executive to step down
NHS Direct chief executive Matt Tee is leaving the service to take up the most senior communications role in the civil service.
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Racism in the NHS
Your report on racism in the NHS provides powerful statistical support to the view that racism is not simply about recruitment.
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Department of Health and Capita sign website contract
The Department of Health and Capita have finally signed a contract that will see the outsourcing specialists run the 'front door' to the NHS through the website www.nhs.uk.
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Baby dies after NHS misses eight chances to stop abuse
NHS professionals had eight opportunities in just one month to spot that a 17-month-old baby was being seriously abused.
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Chemotherapy may be overused
Chemotherapy is being provided to cancer patients near the end of their life in cases where it is inappropriate, research has suggested.