All Policy articles – Page 226
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National director for learning disabilities appointed
Anne Williams has been appointed as national director for learning disabilities at the Department of Health.Her role will be to drive forward policies to ensure people with learning disabilities have equal access to healthcare and other services.
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Scottish breast screening standards all being met
Statistics from the NHS Scotland breast screening programme show that all 11 of its performance standards are being met for the first time.
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Boards 'need sexual health representative'
Primary care trusts should have a board member responsible for sexual health, a report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV has said. It also said commitment was needed to ensure improvements in sexual health services moved beyond clinical work to reducing stigma and social exclusion.It added ...
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NHS Counter Fraud Service: watching the detectives
The NHS loses tens of millions of pounds a year to cheating, but some observers are asking if the Counter Fraud Service is getting too tough. Helen Mooney reports
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Rowan Myron on implementing the Mental Capacity Act
The requirements of the Mental Capacity Act are vitally important for those in the health and social care sectors, but they are taking root too slowly on the front line.
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West Sussex PCT 'disappointed' over reconfiguration decision
The chief executive of West Sussex primary care trust has said he is disappointed that the local council has decided to refer a reconfiguration decision to the health secretary.
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Auditor general for Wales on home oxygen services
The NHS in Wales was not sufficiently prepared to implement changes to the supply of home oxygen services in 2006, the auditor general for Wales has concluded.
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Simon Jones on the future of the health service in Wales
Wednesday 16 July saw two important events in the Senedd in Cardiff. The first was health minister Edwina Hart's announcement of her conclusions following the consultation on the future structure of the health service in Wales.
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Survey finds foundation trusts' hidden private income
Foundation trusts earned up to £70m more income from private patients last year than their accounts show, a confidential report for the regulator Monitor suggests.
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NHS constitution - signed and delivered
The proposal tucked away in the Darzi report for an NHS constitution could be one of the most historic elements of the next stage review, limiting the health secretary's power and guaranteeing patient rights
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Sophia Christie on public health leadership
For much of the last 20 years, public health has faced a huge challenge of marginalisation. A state active model of health was always going to struggle under a government that denied the concept of society.
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Michael White on palliative care
Eleven years ago a good friend died of lung cancer in the palliative ward of a London hospital. Since the operation(s) had gone wrong and he was only 62, it wasn't ideal.
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A shot in the arm for community health services
The government is promoting the social enterprise model of service provision, but there are other options available to primary care trusts. Ingrid Torjesen offers an overview
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HSJ KnowledgeScottish approach to healthcare is not paying off
At the British Medical Association’s annual conference this month, chair Hamish Meldrum put in a plea for England to emulate Scotland’s anti-market approach
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Welsh trusts successful in call for their own abolition
NHS trusts in Wales have succeeded in their unanimous push to bring about their own demise.
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18-week pathway figures published
The Department of Health has published data for patients who completed their referral-to-treatment pathway during May 2008.
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Healthcare Commission highlights mental health failings
The Healthcare Commission has published the most comprehensive assessment of NHS acute inpatient mental health services ever undertaken.
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Doctors to be revalidated every five years
Final plans for conducting regular checks on doctors to improve patient safety were unveiled today by chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson.
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Health secretary targets obesity
Health secretary Alan Johnson will tonight call for a national movement to tackle obesity in a speech on public health to the Fabian Society.Mr Johnson will outline the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and argue that the strategy to combat obesity will only succeed if every part of ...
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Violence guidelines to include volunteers
Guidelines on the prosecution of violent offenders who attack NHS staff have been updated to include NHS volunteers.