All Policy articles – Page 204
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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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News
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.
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News
National quality board named as NHS prepares for international comparison
The NHS will be compared with its international peers in annual reports by the soon to be created national quality board.
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News
David Flory: payment by results tariff will be right, not rushed
The Department of Health will postpone plans to introduce a new payment by results tariff next year if it cannot prevent it from financially destabilising specialist hospitals.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pharmacy's perfect prescription for community health
Local pharmacies are more than just a purveyor of pills. They have the potential to improve the health of communities if commissioners have the courage to invest in them
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on commissioning for quality and innovation
We now know the 'road test' phase of tariff setting for the English NHS begins on 8 December, when the draft tariff for 2009-10 will at last be published.
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News
Hygiene inspections: trusts must clean up in fear of harsh penalties
Last week's Healthcare Commission report found most trusts are not sticking to the hygiene code. The launch of the new regulator next year means they may not get away with it for long. Alison Moore reports
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News
Alan Johnson orders Baby P death probe
Health secretary Alan Johnson has ordered two reports into the way NHS organisations protect vulnerable children in the wake of Baby P's death in Haringey.
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News
Alan Johnson opens UK's first GP led health centre in Bradford
Health secretary Alan Johnson attended the launch of the first GP-led health centre in Bradford last week.
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News
Queen's speech: government to make Darzi review law
The government will legislate to take forward the proposals in health minister Lord Darzi's next stage review, it was confirmed in the Queen's speech today.The NHS bill will create a duty to take account of the rights and responsibilities set out in the NHS constitution, which will be published alongside ...
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News
Government gets tough on maternity services
The Department of Health is to spell out to primary care trusts their duty to improve maternity services.
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News
Sir Michael Rawlins may extend tenure at NICE
A special exemption to appointment rules has been granted to allow Sir Michael Rawlins to extend his tenure as chair of an expanded National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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Comment
Simon Jones on improving the NHS
This will be my last piece for hsj.co.uk. After 20 years serving on health authorities and trust boards, I am leaving for pastures new.
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing for medical revalidation
Medical managers need to prepare themselves to meet the challenges of implementing revalidation. Dr David Scott, chair of the British Medical Association's medical managers sub-committee, and Dr Doug Russell, the committee's primary care representative, explain
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News
NHS dentists face £100m in penalties for underperformance
NHS dentists are being charged more than £100m in penalties for underperformance against contracts in 2007-08, a report claims.