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Assessment for venous thromboembolism
Regarding the HSJ investigation into levels of risk assessment for venous thromboembolism being undertaken for hospital inpatients, the all-party parliamentary thrombosis group was disheartened to hear that more than half of hospital trusts are failing to follow best practice guidelines that all patients receive this risk assessment on admission.
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Prostate cancer protest
We wholeheartedly welcome Adrian Masters' assertion that quality has to bind the Darzi recipe for reform through better and effective commissioning, but we are disappointed the director of strategy at Monitor should make misguided comments on survival rates of prostate cancer in the UK as compared with those in the ...
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Board diversity
I read with great interest the article by Nicola Bullen about diversity on NHS boards. Even after 60 years of the NHS, it is still run by middle-aged, middle-class white people, albeit with a few more women. So what is the reason behind this lack of progress, despite the recent ...
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Better on pain management
In HSJ's Chronic Pain Management supplement, Shropshire GP Louise Warburton said the wait to see a pain management team in her area was six months.
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Safety records
Regarding 'Those in Peril', I am pleased you report that 'enabling patients to check the accuracy of their own medical records... increases patient safety'.
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Managers will need same support as clinicians, says Wanless
The government must give strong support and guidance to managers to ensure wide-ranging plans to improve the NHS really work, says Sir Derek Wanless.
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PCTs under fire on new GP scheme
Independent providers have slammed primary care trusts' attempts to procure new services under a flagship Department of Health scheme. They say the equitable access to primary medical care scheme is 'appallingly poorly managed'.
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Alan Johnson steps up pace of inequalities reform
Health secretary Alan Johnson has outlined plans to ramp up the pace of reform in the face of a struggle to meet health inequalities targets.
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County council tries to wrest control of PCT
A county council has launched an audacious bid to take over its local primary care trust.
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Integrated care pilots tipped for Darzi review
Significant changes to how primary care trusts commission services are being considered as part of Lord Darzi's next stage review.Sources have revealed to HSJ that pilots for integrated care schemes are strongly tipped to feature in the report due out in two weeks.
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Confed warns of globalisation risks
The long-term sustainability of the NHS faces multiple threats from globalisation, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Familiar ring to private takeover talk
I am staggered at the fuss over the announcement that failing hospitals may be handed over to private sector management teams or taken over by successful trusts.
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Mental health services let children down
Children whose parents have serious mental illnesses are being 'failed' by the system, which does not give enough recognition and support to help them cope with their parent’s illness and their own vulnerabilities, a report from the children’s charity Barnardo’s is expected to say today.
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Public will decide on controversial treatments in Wales
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced plans to establish a panel made up of members of the public to decide which specialist treatments should be provided by the NHS.Health minister Edwina Hart said: “I am not one of those people who believes that lay people cannot be trusted to be ...
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Families with disabled children face poverty trap
Urgent government action is needed to tackle the poverty trap faced by families with disabled children, the campaign group Every Disabled Child Matters has said.
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Moral duty drives young NHS managers
Today’s generation of young managers working in the health sector are driven more by the desire to do good than to earn a lot of money, a survey by the Chartered Management Institute has found.
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Diagnostic waiting times fall
The number of patients waiting over 13 weeks for one of the government’s key 15 diagnostic tests fell by 22 per cent between March and April 2008, the latest waiting time statistics show.
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Profits boost for Boots
Pharmacy and health and beauty group Alliance Boots has announced a 20 per cent increase in profits and a 4.8 per cent increase in revenue.
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Not enough cash for polyclinics, claim Tories
If no GP practices are closed as a result of polyclinics being opened, there will not be enough funding for the move, the Conservatives have claimed.
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Incentivise care in poorer areas - Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats would incentivise GPs to work in deprived areas and introduce a financial premium to treat poorer patients, party leader Nick Clegg has said.