All Policy articles – Page 216
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Leader
NHS centralism is in the small print
Buried within the 59 pages of brittle-dry prose of an ‘impact assessment’ on the failure regime for foundering trusts are extraordinary assumptions by the Department of Health about how many providers will go to the wall.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stop-smoking case studies: quitters can win
Now the most motivated ex-smokers have stubbed out their last cigarette, Ingrid Torjesen finds out how services are reaching out to the less enthusiastic would-be quitters
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News
Lord Carter to head up NHS competition panel
Lord Carter of Coles is to be the first chair and director of the NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel.
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HSJ Knowledge
And the smoking ban played on
One year on Ann Shuttleworth considers the effects of the smoking bans in England and Scotland and other efforts to make people quit
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News
Andrew Lansley backs value-based drug pricing
Pharmaceutical companies should be paid according to the benefits that their drugs bring to patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison healthcare: community spirit and honour among thieves
A study of prison healthcare has uncovered inmates giving routine care to others who are elderly, vulnerable or ill. It is time this was formally recognised.
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News
NHS managers lack faith in all three parties
An exclusive poll for HSJ reveals the extent of dissatisfaction in the health service with the three main parties' policies.
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News
NHS failure regime: up to 92 trusts may be culled
The Department of Health expects to cull up to six hospital trusts a year under its new failure regime, figures in its impact assessment reveal.The document shows the DH expects to save £200m a year under the plans, which are out for consultation. It focuses on six trusts affected by ...
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News
Patient information consultation begins
Connecting for Health has launched a consultation on the use of patient information. It wants the public and health professionals to give their views on the use of patient information for purposes such as health research and managing and planning care.
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News
Shortfall in care home funding
An extra £540m is needed to pay for residential care for older people, research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation predicts.
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News
Cancer patients cannot afford prescriptions
A third of cancer patients do not take their prescribed medicines because they cannot afford the prescription charge. Many do not know that buying prescription prepayment certificates would help with the cost.A survey by Macmillan Cancer Support found that 41 per cent of cancer patients did not know about how ...
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Comment
Quint Studer on effective NHS leadership
Lord Darzi's bold recommendations for the NHS on its 60th anniversary have caused quite a stir in the UK and created many challenges for NHS leaders.Some of the goals set forth in the review are ambitious, but they are not insurmountable.
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News
NHS non-executives: what does it take to succeed?
Mike Hay examines the skills, knowledge, behaviours and approach that successful non-executive directors need
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Comment
Mike Hobbs on mental health discrimination
People with mental illness are subject to prejudice in our society. Although attitudes to people with anxiety and depression have improved, attitudes towards people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia have worsened.
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Comment
Lyn Whitfield on personal medical data
Did anyone else feel a twinge of unease about the NHS's 60th anniversary celebrations? I couldn't help thinking they were very backward looking; all those 1940s-style logos and pictures of nurses holding babies in knitted cardigans.
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HSJ Knowledge
Frank Burns on the health informatics review
I've been writing this column now for two years or so and I fear this might be my last piece - not because I want to give up this marvellous platform to peddle my personal passion for clinical IT, but because I'm beginning to wonder if my difficulties in understanding ...
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Comment
Alan Maynard on managing the NHS market
The Darzi reforms, like dozens of ‘definitive’ reports and structural ‘redisorganisations’ over the 60 years of the health service, are experiments that may imperil or improve the lot of patients and taxpayers.
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News
Top-ups should be allowed, says King's Fund chief
The NHS should not deny treatment to patients who pay privately for unapproved drugs, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson has said.He told a seminar yesterday: 'The current practice on top-ups, which prohibits people from privately purchasing drugs not available on the health service while continuing a course of NHS ...
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News
BMA supports cross-border healthcare
The British Medical Association is calling for minimum quality standards for healthcare in Europe, overseen by the European Commission.
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News
High Court decision on cancer drug
The High Court has overturned a primary care trust's refusal to fund cancer drug Revlimid for a cancer suffer with only months to live.