All Policy articles – Page 268
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Commissioning's stakeholders design their world-class future
Primary care trusts that demonstrate they are 'world-class commissioners' could be rewarded with foundation trust-style freedoms.
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Johnson praised for backing reform plans
Health secretary Alan Johnson has been commended for backing managers' plans to reconfigure hospital services in Manchester - as Conservatives face the fallout from a row about district general hospitals.
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Johnson praised for backing reform plans
Health secretary Alan Johnson has been commended for backing managers' plans to reconfigure hospital services in Manchester - as Conservatives face the fallout from a row about district general hospitals.
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Call to action as killings continue to fail service users and public
A lack of government guidance means SHAs and mental health trusts have little clarity in how to examine why service users were able to kill. Investigations drag on and findings from cases as long ago as 1996 have not been acted on. Charlotte Santry reports
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Timely action will save lives and restore public confidence
'Media coverage of mental health killings obliterates shades of grey'
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£80m 'wasted' on killing inquiries
More than £80m has been 'wasted' on inquiries into murders and manslaughters by mental health patients, a leading charity has claimed following an exclusive hsj.co.uk investigation.
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Cigarette packets to carry graphic warnings
Graphic pictures illustrating the effects smoking can have on health will be printed on all cigarette packets from next year, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.
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Doctors call for lower speed limit
All routes used for walking to school in Wales should be designated 20 mph zones, according to Welsh doctors' leaders.
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Scotland on target for cardiac waiting times
New figures show that NHS Scotland is on track to meet the 16-week waiting time target for heart patients.
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Conservatives pledge to save district generals
The Conservatives have pledged to save the district general hospital, in what is being widely seen as an opening salvo in the run-up to a possible autumn snap election.
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Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.
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Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.
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Exclusive: Mental health killings investigation
Failings in the care of mental health patients convicted of murder or manslaughter are regularly taking up to five years to put right, an investigation by hsj.co.uk has revealed.
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Conservatives bid to 'save' NHS services
Conservative leader David Cameron has vowed to save 29 district general hospitals that the party believes are at risk of losing their accident and emergency and maternity services.
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Pilot sites sought for maternity reforms
Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites for the government's Maternity Matters reforms.
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Diagnostic waiting times published
Figures for diagnostic waiting times for the month of June have been published by the Department of Health.
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Consultation on nurses' pay
The Royal College of Nursing has launched a consultation with NHS members in England on the government's pay offer for nurses.
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Dignity campaign extended to mental healthcare
A campaign launched to help elderly people is to be extended to improve the care of people with mental health problems, care services minister Ivan Lewis has announced.
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Scotland falling behind on waiting time target
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said meeting the country's national cancer waiting time target is 'long overdue'.
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An ode to the Daily Mail?
Michael White's 800-word bansturbation (opinion, page 10, 26 July) to the thought of stricter discipline and control of drugs, drinking, gambling and advertising included a stout defence of the Daily Mail. Will HSJ soon have a Daily Mail editor as its political columnist?Rory Meakin is patient safety co-ordinator at Camden ...