All Policy articles – Page 266
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English waiting times fall, government figures show
The number of English inpatients waiting more than 20 weeks for treatment dropped by 11 per cent last month.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS continuing healthcare - is your trust compliant?
Is your trust compliant with the national continuing care framework? If your answer is 'what framework?' then read on - this could be your wake-up call. Hilary Finegan explains
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Quality of 100 new GP practices comes into question
The 100 new GP practices to be built in under-doctored areas will be badly funded and poorly staffed, the British Medical Association has warned.
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Close pay gap between acute and PCT chiefs, say managers
The chief executive of Managers in Partnership has called on the government to explain why primary care trust managers are paid less than their acute trust peers.
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PCTs urged to put local patients before politicians
Primary care providers must not 'blow' their chance to strengthen local decision making, says the Department of Health's director general for commissioning and system management.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health: no-one wins in homicide blame game
Often inspired by media hysteria, inquiries into homicides by mentally ill people cost the NHS millions each year and produce little real change, says Christine Vize
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Data protection: fresh security fears as information escapes
While the public absorbs news of a breathtaking government failure to safeguard personal details, moves to centralise data on NHS patients continue apace. Daloni Carlisle asks what the health service can learn from the Revenue and Customs debacle
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Comment
Jon Restell on unravelling the pay-off era
The NHS is more anxious to stop problems coming to light than solving them. Good, bad, indifferent - the system does not care about judging your actual performance
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Comment
David Peat on turning health policy into action
One of the eternal dilemmas for a chief executive is to translate the words of policy documents into meaningful action on the front line
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to world class commissioning
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations
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Infection control gets £54m boost in Scotland
The Scottish government is to spend £54m on tackling healthcare-associated infections over the next three years.The measures include establishing a national MRSA screening programme and monitoring hand hygiene compliance.
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New practices for under-doctored areas
Thirty-eight primary care trusts identified as having the poorest provision of GPs have been selected as the first to benefit from 100 new GP practices over three years.
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18-week target update
The Department of Health has published an update on the latest developments around the 18-week patient pathway.
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Sir Liam blames overseas applicants for junior doctor crisis
The chief medical officer has batted off calls to resign over junior doctors' recruitment, blaming the crisis on a surge of overseas applicants.
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DoH commercial directorate to be broken up and procurement localised
The Department of Health’s commercial directorate is to be scaled down and regionalised and procurement of NHS private sector capacity handed to local commissioners.
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Comment
Media Watch: Gordon Brown under fire
Gordon Brown has been coming under fire this week for his behaviour both past and present. The Sun blamed the prime minister for the decision, announced by health secretary Alan Johnson, to scrap six contracts for independent sector treatment centres. The £100m compensation to the dropped companies ‘could have built ...
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Comment
Michael White: inside Gordon Brown's mind
Are ministers in Alan Johnson’s health team now finding their feet in their new jobs after a lacklustre start? Are they landing a few blows on the other side too despite renewed talk of a broad consensus on the NHS’s future?
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Patients could commission own healthcare, says Nicholson
Patients could soon be handed responsibility for commissioning their own care through individual budgets, the NHS chief executive has revealed.
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Mental health: PCTs to target potential offenders
Commissioners will work closely with neighbourhood police to keep the mentally ill out of jail, the government's director of prison health has announced.
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£1.8bn NHS underspend 'manageable', says Nicholson
The NHS chief executive has defended its expected record £1.8bn surplus as 'relatively small' and 'healthy'.The 2 per cent underspend, revealed by HSJ earlier today, was 'relatively manageable', David Nicholson told the Commons health select committee.