News – Page 1923

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    Scarborough to axe 600 jobs in bid for foundation status

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    An NHS trust is axing a third of its workforce in a bid to avoid having its finances scrutinised by the health secretary.

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    Johnson stalls on Manchester decisions

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has postponed a crunch decision on two contested service changes in Greater Manchester.

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    Thousands of junior doctors start new jobs

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Hospitals were yesterday faced with thousands of junior doctors starting new jobs at the same time.

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    Anna Donald on doctors' motives

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The NHS needs doctors firing on all cylinders, not retreating to their duvets'

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    Anna Donald

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'I had the tea lady from hell. I woke to be greeted by a short, angry person wielding a large trolley'

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    Nursing chief is good and bad cop all in one

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Nursing's general secretary, Peter Carter,.has altered its stance on reconfiguration, plurality and the wisdom of heckling Hewitt. But he promises fierce opposition to poor management and short-term cuts

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.

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    Just the end of the beginning for Monitor

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With 62 members, the foundation movement is coming of age. Monitor chair Bill Moyes offers a compelling picture of where foundation trusts are heading, and outlines his vision for the regulator's future

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    Report condemns 'information overload'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Trust boards are drowning in 'Amazonian' levels of useless information, the latest Intelligent Board report from Dr Foster has found.

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    Care UK chief urges swift ISTC take-up

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Chief executive Mike Parish sounds a cautionary note that government must move quickly to ensure a local ownership care system takes route

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    Chronic disease management: Welsh framework will cut through boundaries

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With evidence mounting that chronic illness represents the principal burden on health and social care services, effective management of long-term conditions is a priority. Helen Howson and colleagues explain

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    Anna Donald on consumer information

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Patients must indeed be patient. The term 'patient-led' invites disbelief that patients are going to lead the NHS'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'

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    Turning curves

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In the first part of our series on organisational turnaround, HSJ writers quiz three NHS trusts on how they fought their way back from the brink of financial Armageddon

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    PCT autonomy plans dropped

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has backed away from proposals to give primary care trusts complete autonomy to set policies on NHS funding for continuing care.

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    Public health must move in 'corridors of power'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The voice of public health must become less 'fragmented', according to new Faculty of Public Health president Professor Alan Maryon Davis.

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'

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    Sophia Christie on the power of targets

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The concern is shifting from absolute targets to the rather more difficult to track agenda of respect and values'

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    MP wants medics in uniforms to cut infection

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Doctors should change into uniforms on entering hospital to help stop the spread of infections, according to an MP whose local hospital became the first to be served with a hygiene improvement notice.