All Policy articles – Page 193
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Comment
Daphne Austin on NHS exceptional funding decisions
One aspect of priority setting that presents difficulties is funding requests for individual patients, particularly those based on alleged “exceptionality”.
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News
Government accused of 'wanton experimentation on the public'
MPs have accused the government of “wanton large scale experimentation on the public” through poorly evidenced health inequalities policies.
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News
Scottish BMA leader demands review of extended opening hours
The British Medical Association's lead Scottish GP has demanded a review of policy on extending GP opening hours in Scotland.
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Sophia Christie on the next stage review and quality
Perhaps the most important contribution of the next stage review was to put quality and safety back firmly among the NHS's priorities.
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A new plan for cardiac and vascular disease
Cardiac and vascular disease urgently needs a strategy that goes further and wider than the current framework and improves access to high quality services for far more people.
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News
Health loses out under Treasury PFI package
Last week the Treasury announced plans to boost recession hit PFI schemes with public cash, which could leave the NHS billions of pounds out of pocket. Sally Gainsbury explains the impact on health projects
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Community
Media Watch: NHS recession depression
Some stories get written because they are about a money, others because they involve gore or sex. Then there are the stories that simply give journalists the opportunity to use phrases that offend, alliterate or rhyme.
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News
Exclusive: Data reveals wide variation in patient safety reporting
Trusts where patient safety incidents are most likely to cause deaths, and those with the highest and lowest reporting rates, are revealed for the first time in an exclusive HSJ analysis.
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News
Margaret Edwards quits SHA for central role
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber chief executive Margaret Edwards left her post suddenly last week to take on a new role driving efficiency across the NHS.
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News
GPs offering extended hours in all PCT areas
GP practices in all primary care trust areas are now offering extended hours, the Department of Health's latest figures reveal.
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News
Sweeping review of nursing announced
Prime minister Gordon Brown has launched a sweeping review of the future of nursing.
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Justice secretary drops controversial data sharing proposals
Justice secretary Jack Straw has dropped controversial proposals that medical bodies had warned could see patients' confidential medical records being passed to third parties.
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Comment
Steve Onyett on healthcare reform
To describe the underpinning principles of the new Department of Health approach to change, health secretary Alan Johnson and NHS chief executive David Nicholson use the terms co-production, subsidiarity, clinical ownership and leadership, and system alignment.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving stroke care: fast thinking
Despite being one of the country's biggest killers and the largest cause of disability, stroke only recently gained a national strategy. Now the drive for faster intervention is giving it a much needed boost. Jennifer Taylor reports
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News
SHA chief Margaret Edwards to lead productivity unit
Margaret Edwards, the chief executive of Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority, has left to head up a new national NHS productivity unit.She has agreed to lead the unit, set up by NHS chief executive David Nicholson and based in NHS London, and will start as national director of ...
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News
Flaws exposed in NHS winter planning
The NHS must improve the way it deals with the increased demand for hospital care in winter months, director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory has said.Mr Flory said in the quarterly update on performance that he was 'disappointed' that the NHS as a whole had missed ...
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News
BME mental health: patchwork picture says volumes
Censuses of mental health inpatients confirm disproportionate numbers from black and ethnic minority groups. Ignoring the causes of this discrepancy does them a disservice
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Scottish bill to ban private GP provision
Health policy in Scotland has moved further from English policy with a bill that will prevent private companies from running GP services.
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Monitor withdraws quality accounts challenge
Foundation trusts will have to send quality accounts to the government, health minister Lord Darzi has insisted.