All Policy articles – Page 220
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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DH publishes plans for failing NHS trusts
The Department of Health has published its proposals for managing failing NHS hospitals and trusts.
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Chair of NHS co-operation and competition panel named
The first chair and director of the NHS co-operation and competition panel will be Lord Carter of Coles. He will take up the post in October.
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Top-up status quo not an option - Mike Richards
National clinical director for cancer Mike Richards has hinted that his review of top-up payments will result in a definite policy shift.
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NHS inequalities row is shrouded in secrecy
The question of whether poor urban areas should continue to get the most funding is about fundamental NHS principles - so why is it being discussed behind closed doors? Sally Gainsbury reports
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London's first polyclinic locations are unveiled
Healthcare for London has revealed the locations of the capital's first five polyclinics.
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Michael White on economic populism
Off the Calais ferry and straight back into the political melee this week, I certainly didn't feel the quiet August break had done much for Gordon Brown's government's prospects of recovery.
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Nick Clegg rejects NHS insurance plans
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has chosen the launch of a report calling for primary care trusts to be replaced by a health insurance style system to flesh out policies on healthcare reform.
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Foundation trusts may fight private patient income cap
Foundation trusts could challenge the cap on earnings from private patients under EU law, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Bringing mental health under the NHS wing
Successive governments have left mental health in the shadows. At the Liberal Democrat conference leader Nick Clegg will outline his plans to turn the sector around and make it truly patient centred
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Working group on women in medicine holds first meeting
The first meeting of the national working group on women in medicine took place this week.
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Liberal Democrats voice support for top ups
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called for patients to be allowed to pay for extra treatment without losing the right to free NHS care.