All Policy articles – Page 201
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Comment
Michael White on the NHS in recession
A rough old trade is politics, as most MPs can confirm. All the same, I felt a bit sorry for Andrew Lansley the other week when he was beaten up for saying 'on many counts recession can be good for us'.
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News
NHS operating framework: winners and losers
PCTs whose funding targets have increased most and least under the new formula
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Managers' responses to the NHS operating framework
Adrian Roberts, director of finance, Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals trust"If the new tariff does what it says on the tin, specialist and tertiary acutes will be protected by it which would help us, but the efficiency savings will be even harder for district general hospitals."Denise McLellan, director ...
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What the operating framework means for PCTs, providers and SHAs
PCTsContracts with PCT provider services by AprilPreparing for legal right to choiceUpgrading and increasing GP premisesReductions in mixed-sex accommodation"Pricing framework" for community servicesProvidersNew MRSA minimum standardPayments linked to qualityMeeting safeguarding children duties"Least restrictive environment possible" for mental healthcareSHAsProducing talent and leadership plansEnsuring providers use funds to improve trainingWorkforce plans for ...
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Huge leadership challenge to implement Darzi review
Managers have been warned to expect a 'huge leadership challenge' in an operating framework devoted to implementing the next stage review.
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Comply with NICE or pay, Care Quality Commission tells trusts
Healthcare providers could be shut down for failing to comply with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance under plans to make adherence a requirement of the Care Quality Commission's registration scheme.
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NHS constitution is a finance firewall, say advisers
The NHS constitution will force the government to invest in services and act as a protective 'firewall' against budget squeezes, advisers have predicted.
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NHS could be £13bn short in five years
There could be a £13bn gap between what the NHS has been assessed as needing and what it will get by 2013, the executive chair of the foundation trust regulator Monitor has warned.
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NHS operating framework 2009-10
NHS told to cap spending as more than half of£1.8bn surplus is lostHuge leadership challenge to implement Darzi reviewPCTs get green light for CQUINNHS operating framework: winners and losersManagers' responses to the NHS operating frameworkWhat the operating framework means for PCTs, providers and SHAsDownload the NHS operating framework for 2009-10
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NHS told to cap spending as more than half of £1.8bn surplus is lost
The dire state of public finances means the NHS will be permitted to spend less than half the surplus it has generated over the last two years.
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DH looks to PCT property sales to balance its books
The sale of up to 6.5bn of primary care trust property will help the Department of Health out of the looming 16bn hole in its capital spending limit.The limit imposed on the DH and NHS by the Treasury will be jeopardised next April when new accountancy rules mean private finance ...
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Comment
Improving patient safety: advice for NHS boards
Institute for Healthcare Improvement president and chief executive Donald Berwick talks to Stockport foundation trust chair Robina Shah about the role of NHS boards in improving patient safety and quality of care
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
DiagnosticsAlison MooreDiagnostics is one of the great success stories of the 18 weeks programme: the numbers waiting more than six weeks for a test have reduced from nearly 600,000 to less than 15,000 in two years.As well as helping the NHS achieve the 18 week target, this is better for ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Supplement / 18 weeks
Technology challengeDaloni Carlisle Clinicians identify problems that need solving, technologists develop solutions that the NHS then adopts as a way forward. Neat, but obviously in the real world it doesn’t actually work like that.In the real world there is a gap between the clinicians and industry that means innovators do ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
Sustainability/transformationIngrid TorjesenIn the past, elective care waiting time targets focused on specific parts of the patient pathway – waits for outpatient appointment or operations – rather than the whole journey. This how the 18-week programme is different.Patients have been followed and their whole journey mapped for the first time. By ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
Success storiesAlison MooreWhen the 18 weeks target was announced in 2004 there was widespread scepticism that the NHS could ever deliver it. But in just four years patients are now getting treatment for both admitted and non-admitted pathways in this time – and the median wait is just eight weeks ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Nick Chapman / Philippa Robinson
Foreword It was always a tough ask - could the NHS fundamentally change its ways of working for elective patients, transform the quality of the service that patients experience, reduce the backlogs of long waits, and cut waiting times dramatically? "Waiting lists" and all they implied had seemingly been the ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Alcohol policy: battle of the binge
As drink gets cheaper and licensing hours get longer, stemming the effect on the nation's health and the NHS budget is causing headaches. Stuart Shepherd reports
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News
Sir Ian Kennedy to oversee academic health science centre selection
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy is to oversee the process to select the organisations that will be designated academic health science centres.
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Support for practice based commissioning 'static'
Four in 10 GPs are still not supporting the Department of Health's practice based commissioning initiative, new figures reveal.