All Policy articles – Page 195
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NewsNext stage review: SHAs steer Darzi plans through financial storm
The recession and the subsequent question marks over funding mean SHAs’ visions published last year are being recast. But, as Alison Moore finds out, many have made strong progress regardless
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DH denies claims of next stage review 'waffle'
The Department of Health has vigorously denied MPs’ claims that reforms in the next stage review amount to a long list of unranked priorities and “a lot of waffle”.
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New choice for IT programme
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has revealed the Department of Health is negotiating with software developers to set up potential alternatives to the two hospital record systems available through the national programme for IT.
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Cash for healthy lifestyles
Economic incentives such as paying people not to smoke should be incorporated into public health strategy, a government policy group has said.
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Media Watch: Sir Liam's proposals to cut binge drinking
One can’t help but feel sorry for Sir Liam Donaldson. Britain’s “top doctor”, in theory the living, breathing exemplar of the Department of Health’s desire to have more clinical leaders, has been royally hung out to dry.
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Local LIFT projects pick up speed as successful bidders named
Successful bidders for the Express local improvement finance trust framework have been named by the Department of Health.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.