All Policy articles – Page 197
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News
Monitor takes fight for FT freedoms to the House of Lords
Monitor has launched a challenge to the government in Parliament to protect foundation trust freedoms and its role as their regulator.The regulator believes proposals in the Health Bill compromise foundation trusts' independence by requiring them to send quality accounts to the health secretary.
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NHS top-up rules set for rewrite as fear of litigation mounts
The government is expected to rewrite its guidance on implementing cancer czar Mike Richards' recommendations for top-up payments.Trusts have been observing the draft guidance since it was published in November.
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Dementia strategy: high hopes but who will pay?
The dementia strategy promises dedicated memory services in every town, but with only £150m over two years can primary care trusts afford the sophisticated teams this requires? Charlotte Santry reports
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Supplements
Round table: will the penny drop for clinical managers?
Patient level costing may be the lure that attracts clinicians into management. Daloni Carlisle listens in on a discussion between some of the most influential policy makers, managers and medical leaders
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Michael White on the NHS cash crisis
Funny really. As the public mood darkens, the dog that should have loudly barked during Alan Johnson's monthly grilling by MPs, health question time in the Commons, was still conspicuous by its silence.
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Comment
NHS still ageist after all these years
Despite various promises to the contrary, age discrimination is alive and well in the NHS. Directors from two older people’s charities hope new legislation will change this
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Leader
Lords quality accounts fight may cause an unpleasant sensation
The latest scrap between Monitor and the Department of Health has just kicked off in the House of Lords.
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News
Alan Johnson has 'no concerns' over private patient cap amendment
Health secretary Alan Johnson was shown Baroness Molly Meacher’s amendment to abolish the cap on private patient income and raised ‘no concerns’, HSJ has been told.
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Andrew Lansley urges public loans for capital projects
Shadow health minister Andrew Lansley has called for hospitals to be given government loans to fund capital developments.
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Health inequalities review: commissioners announced
The commissioners of the government review of health inequalities have been announced. The review is being chaired by University College London professor of epidemiology and public health Sir Michael Marmot
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Major patient choice study begins
The Department of Health is seeking hard evidence that choice improves the quality of services.
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Peer lays amendment to remove private patient income cap
An amendment laid to the Health Bill on Friday will completely remove the private patient income cap for foundation trusts, if MPs pass it.The amendment was developed by the Foundation Trust Network and comes as Unison prepares to challenge in court foundation trust regulator Monitor’s ‘too permissive’ interpretation of the ...
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Comment
Andy McKeon on the economics of better care
Understanding how money works and spending wisely is essential for people working in the NHS. The evidence suggests that when money is spent well, the quality of services provided to patients is correspondingly high.
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HSJ Knowledge
Added values: improving learning disabilities services
People with learning disabilities are entitled to the same high quality healthcare as other patients, but serious cases of abuse and neglect suggest the NHS is far from meeting its obligations. Kaye McIntosh reports on the work now under way to turn this around
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Community
Media Watch: maternity services
The Conservatives have been keeping up the pressure over maternity services - with stories in both broadsheets and tabloids saying the NHS has been forced to turn away women in labour.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: Guantanamo on Thames
‘Most of the trusts were flashing red with down arrows and the SHA had created what looked like a share price for each, all of them tanking’
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Comment
Jon Restell on taking notice of European health directives
All my life I have failed to show any serious interest in the workings of the European Union.
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News
Public health: a slim chance of healthier lives
The Change4Life initiative to combat child obesity is the latest in a long history of public strategies and, says Niall Dickson, success will rely on it grabbing public imagination
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News
Foundation trusts call for private patient income flexibility
The Foundation Trust Network has called for a public debate on changing the law to allow foundations to take on more private patient work.
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News
NHS trusts and commissioners at odds over tariff benefits
Hospital trusts and commissioners are disputing the impact of the new payment by results tariff on their income.