All Primary care articles – Page 308
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Comment: Anger as fitness for purpose programme fails on fairness
'Rather than PCTs being helped to consider and work on weaknesses in a supported way, they are in effect invited to merely record what they already know.'
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Fresh food roll-out
A new pilot scheme to give freshfood vouchers to low-income families has been judged a success and will be rolled out nationally in November.
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Yorkshire and Humber fills five of nine top PCT posts
Profiles of cohort of new PCT chief executives
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New DoH panel for COPD
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has unveiled a panel of 19 experts to help shape improved standards and greater choice for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Community foundation trusts - market forces or forced markets?
The government has backtracked from plans to force the commissioner/provider split, but for PCTs that do make the break, could community foundation trusts be the answer? Jennifer Trueland looks at the next stage of the foundation revolution.
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Don't let NHS get 'hamstrung' by choice, warns Nigel Edwards
The success or failure of policies on choice will be difficult to measure if they are allowed to fragment, warned NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards.
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DoH warning over childbirth target
The NHS could miss its target to expand choice in childbirth, the chair of the Department of Health's choice reference group has warned.
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SNP to review free care policy
Scotland's main opposition party has pledged a review of the flagship free personal care policy if it wins power in next year's Scottish Parliament elections.
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Anger over NICE colon cancer drug verdict
Charities have reacted angrily to the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence not to recommend the use of two colon cancer drugs.
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Government consults ahead of new choice framework
The Department of Health has vowed to involve 'as many people as possible' in a national listening exercise about how to expand choice beyond elective care.
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Only half of PCT top jobs go to old guard
As HSJ went to press, 26 of 47 posts running new PCTs across five SHAs have been filled by PCT chief executives.
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Spent forces: who pulls the levers on local funding
The King's Fund report on variations in primary care trust spending demonstrates that the 'postcode lottery' stretches far beyond the availability of drugs. But are PCT priorities really at the heart of decision making? Tash Shifrin reports
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Netcare lead bidder for Manchester integrated clinical assessment and treatment services
The Department of Health has named Netcare and Partnership Health Group - in partnership with Alliance Medical - as preferred bidders for its controversial integrated clinical assessment and treatment services in Manchester, HSJhas learnt.
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Welsh Ambulance Service gets third chief executive in as many months
The Welsh Ambulance Services trust has appointed a turnaround expert as its permanent chief executive.
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Union hits out at 'back-door' privatisation of ambulance service
A new NHS procurement agency has been accused of attempting a 'back-door privatisation' of East Midlands Ambulance Service trust.
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Staffordshire ambulance chief defends figures after response time probe
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust acting chief executive Geoff Catling has defended his organisation following a probe into allegations that 999 response times were being fiddled.
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Dr Raj Persaud: mind games
'Confidence in the effectiveness of your own communication skills and general abilities can be enormously helpful in situations where you are dealing with difficult subjects.'
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David Woodhead on public health
'We were facing our just desert for all the desserts we had just crammed in out faces'
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Caught up in the network
The funding promised to 31 teaching primary care trusts will soon arrive and, with big plans in the pipeline, it comes at just the right time. Daloni Carlisle reports
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Press man quits
The health board press officer hired on the basis of a controversial strategy document which criticised politicians and said GPs had egos the size of mountains has quit his post.