All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 160
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Healthcare Commission takes a hard line on hospital infection
The Healthcare Commission is to clamp down on superbugs after one in four hospitals admitted they were failing to meet national standards.
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinicians under the spotlight
Tackling performance problems is rarely easy, but there is experienced support to call on. Dr Rosemary Field explains
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Surgical spirit soars in defence of the clinician
Royal College of Surgeons president Bernie Ribeiro is on a mission to stand up for education and to set up a national audit of clinical outcomes to convince commissioners of ISTCS' shortcomings
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Sex clinic under pressure as HIV rates increase
A senior strategic health authority manager has warned that high rates of HIV infection combined with poor data collection and a lack of funds for care are squeezing sexual health services in Manchester.
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MPs launch contract cleaning probe
A cross-party parliamentary group is launching an inquiry into healthcare-acquired infections.
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Sophia Christie on the power of targets
'The concern is shifting from absolute targets to the rather more difficult to track agenda of respect and values'
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HSJ Knowledge
Sea change in health scrutiny
As the future of health scrutiny grows increasingly complex, healthcare professionals and local government must ride the wave and forge new relationships, reports Sasha Strong
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Interim chair named for 'perilous' Yorkshire trust
An embattled Yorkshire trust has appointed an interim chair after its former chair was sacked and two directors resigned in December.
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Information Centre prepares to expand role
The role of the Information Centre for health and social care in the NHS is set to be stepped up, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has revealed.
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Watchdog has PbR's care impact in its sights
The Healthcare Commission has said it is interested in assessing the impact of payment by results on patient care.
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DoH urges primary care trusts to embrace change quicker
Primary care trusts must be as swift to embrace change, innovation, spotting new trends and developing markets as the finance industry, according to the Department of Health.
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Sophia Christie on primary care
'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'
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Heart failure review reveals 'worrying' variations in care
A review of heart failure services has found wide variations between the performance of primary care trusts.
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Diabetes care must improve
Most primary care trusts need to improve services for people with diabetes and are only meeting minimum requirements, the Healthcare Commission has found.
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Report calls for royal pharmaceutical college
Pharmacists should get their own royal college to unite the profession and give it a stronger voice, the government has concluded.
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GP star-rating talks called off over fears of misuse
Any system of 'star-ratings' for GPs now looks unlikely after the Royal College of GPs broke off talks with the government over the proposals.
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'Sliding scale' for misconduct burden of proof
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson looks set to modify controversial proposals to reduce the burden of proof in cases of medical misconduct and instead introduce a 'sliding scale' based on the seriousness of allegations.
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CommentSimon Stevens on Brown's opening salvo
‘Mr Brown has chosen an issue that explicitly requires him to choose sides: patients v professionals’
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Broken pledge to cut red tape
NHS bureaucracy is increasing with a 'staggering' 56 bodies now in place to inspect, monitor and assess the service, a new report from the NHS Confederation says.
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Comment
Patient and public involvement: clear water must flow into the goldfish bowl
Looking for a place to hide? Try the massed ranks of organisations currently holding the NHS to account. Jessica Crowe suggests clarity lies in resolving what it is accountability structures should be delivering