All Policy articles – Page 210
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News
£13.5m earmarked for public health initiatives
Public health minister Dawn Primarolo has unveiled a package of measures to help break down the barriers between primary care trusts and local authorities when tackling pockets of poor health.
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Quality and outcomes framework 'distracts GPs'
The quality and outcomes framework has been criticised as offering 'inappropriate financial incentives' to GPs that can 'distract' them from offering the best care.
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DH sets out framework for improving quality of care
The Department of Health has set out how NHS organisations should move towards measuring and improving quality of care.Chief executive David Nicholson and medical director Sir Bruce Keogh have written to managers with a framework describing the role different organisations will play.
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HSJ Knowledge
Six steps to integrated NHS workforce planning: step two
Are you considering your healthcare workforce plans? The Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning can help.
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Comment
John Coakley on NHS targets
Most clinicians hate targets and view them as something that obstructs clinical care. However, it seems they have worked.
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Unite plans industrial action over NHS pay deal
Unite is planning a day of action against the three-year NHS pay deal.
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Task force rejects presumed consent for organ donation
Presumed consent for organ donation has been rejected by an expert government advisory committee.The UK organ donation task force said the risks of moving to the system outweighed the potential benefits.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS compensation culture: do patients justice
The time taken to settle negligence claims against the NHS compares well with the insurance industry. But trusts could act quicker, or avoid litigation altogether by offering an apology. Jennifer Taylor reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Developing the Clinical Leaders Network
Following a successful pilot in the North West, the Clinical Leaders Network is being rolled out to strategic health authorities throughout England. Ingrid Torjesen talks to the network's national lead Dr Raj Kumar
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HSJ Knowledge
Human resources and the 18-week target
The role of human resources and admin teams in getting NHS waiting lists down to size deserves recognition, says Andy Cowper
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Media Watch: top-ups
Now that government policy on co-payments has become clearer, it's interesting to learn that MPs have been benefiting from 'top-ups' of their own.
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison mental healthcare: pushing up standards
Access to mental healthcare remains an obstacle for prisoners. The solution, say Andrew Forrester and colleagues, is a dedicated, unitary 'prisoner care trust' for commissioning
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Edwina Hart delays reform schedule in Wales
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has accepted that the wholesale overhaul of the NHS in Wales will not be complete until next October.
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Leader
NHS top-ups are no substitute for offering a death with dignity
The response to Mike Richards’ review of co-payments has been largely positive. The cancer czar had a tricky job to do, forced to navigate choppy ideological waters and land at a practical resolution.
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Jon Restell on the NHS constitution
After a warm welcome earlier in the summer, the NHS constitution is now the subject of some sustained chuntering. This is wrong.
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Comment
Michael White on NHS bad news
Some politicians suspected Alan Johnson deliberately chose to make his announcement on top-ups on the same day as Barack Obama's election to the US presidency in the hope that he could 'bury bad news.'
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News
£400m spending limit forced on NHS
NHS organisations will be permitted to spend just 400m of their 1.7bn surplus next financial year and will not get the full increase in resources pledged to them by the Treasury.
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Comment
Sir Ian Kennedy on the future of the annual health check
The Act of Parliament that established the Healthcare Commission required us to assess on an annual basis the performance of every NHS organisation, taking account of the standards issued by the Department of Health. Out of this requirement grew the annual health check.
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Give asylum seekers access to NHS care, BMA urges
Restricting asylum seekers' access to primary care results in costly treatment having to be accessed later, MPs have been told.
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Scottish hospitals to face surprise hygiene inspections
All hospitals in Scotland face unannounced inspections to check they are clean and preventing the spread of infection.Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced the measure as part of a consultation on infection control.