All Policy articles – Page 263
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Alliance: PBC will transform health service
The NHS Alliance has given practice-based commissioning a vote of confidence in a report released today.Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned the policy would not go far enough if ...
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GPs come out against polyclinics
The Royal College of GPs has criticised the introduction of NHS polyclinics proposed by junior health minister Lord Darzi as part of his vision for the future of the NHS.
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Bradshaw calls for action to fix primary care democratic deficit
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has raised the prospect of a shake-up of local governance after he issued a warning that there is a 'problem' with primary care trusts' accountability to their patients.
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Johnson delivers speech on health inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson will deliver a speech on health inequalities to the New Health Network today.
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Maggie Rae
The head of the local delivery and health inequalities unit has become the latest senior Department of Health employee to return to the frontline.Maggie Rae has become the director of health at Wiltshire primary care trust.Ms Rae was seconded to the DoH for two years from the National Institute for ...
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Even greater investment could be needed, warns Wanless
The NHS will need even higher levels of funding over the next 20 years unless worrying trends in productivity and obesity are tackled, according to the Wanless report for the King's Fund.
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Smoking ban has improved Scottish health
The number of heart attack hospital admissions in Scotland fell by 17 per cent in the first year after its smoking ban came into force, it has been claimed.According to research presented at a conference to discuss the impact of the ban, there has also been a 39 per cent ...
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Medical students need free prescribing guide
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the government's decision to stop supplying free copies of the British National Formulary to medical students.
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Ofcare may not cover public health
Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has voiced concerns that the NHS's new super-regulator may be given too narrow a remit.Ms Walker insisted Ofcare, set to swallow up the Healthcare Commission in April 2009, must have the power to regulate and assess NHS organisations on health and health inequalities as ...
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Confed praises new medical director
The NHS Confederation has made an official comment on the appointment of Professor Sir Bruce Keogh as the new NHS medical director.Chief executive Dr Gill Morgan said: 'Sir Bruce is an outstanding clinician and a dedicated individual. I am sure he will be a genuine force for good in improving ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison mental healthcare: developing cultural competence
Link workers are enhancing mental healthcare for black and ethic minority prisoners.One such person, community development worker Irfan Mohammed, acts as a link worker for prisoners in Dorset.
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BMA hits out at 'focus on money'
More progress is needed on the 18-week GP referral to hospital treatment target, the British Medical Association has said.
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£10m boost for occupational health
Health minister Ivan Lewis has announced £10m of capital funding to finance new NHS Plus demonstration sites to improve the occupational healthcare services offered to small and medium sized businesses.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental Health Bill briefing
In 1998, then health secretary Frank Dobson announced the government’s intention to create new legislation to close ‘loopholes’ in the 1983 Mental Health Act. The announcement followed the conviction of personality-disordered Michael Stone in 1998 for the brutal murders of Lin and Megan Russell.
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Media Watch: immigrants in the news
'Immigrants with cancer 'could swamp the NHS',' read The Daily Mail's headline. It quoted Lancet Oncology editor David Collingridge, who said so many East European migrants have arrived in Britain in recent years that the NHS may struggle to cope with the subsequent rise in cancer patients.
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Mixed results for public health
The Department of Health's performance chief has fired a warning shot over public health targets following 'mixed' quarterly results in sexual health and stop-smoking services.
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Experts clash on success rates data
A Department of Health drive to publish more success rates for NHS services has split members of an expert panel charged with deciding what can be measured. They agree that using outcomes reported by trusts and patients is crucial, but members have different views over how easy it will be ...
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Frustration as department drags its feet over choice
Concerns have been raised over the future of choice as a major Department of Health policy document has yet to see the light of day.
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Scotland under the searchlight as executive begins its reforms
With 100 days in power under its belt, the Scottish National Party has enjoyed some crowd-pleasing NHS moves and a positive report from the Scottish Executive, but is it a significant policy shift or political opportunism? Jennifer Trueland reports
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Tories' public services group calls for beefed up CMO role
The Conservatives' public services policy group has made fresh calls to strengthen the role of the chief medical officer.