All Health Service Journal articles in September 2006 – Page 3
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Unsuccessful candidates for PCT chairs attack 'flawed' selection criteria and appointment process
The national programme to appoint new chairs to all primary care trusts has been criticised as biased, uninformed and hurtful by a number of rejected candidates.
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Union attacks selection process for top PCT posts as 'scandalous'
Strategic health authorities have been urged to give unsuccessful primary care trust chief executives 'transparent and appropriate' feedback on the reasons they have failed to secure a top job in the newly reconfigured organisations.
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DoH moots roll-out of central funds to local organisations
NHS chief exec planning radical shift in how central budgets are held
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Hospitals told to focus on food and cleaning
Health minister Andy Burnham has told hospitals to focus on food and cleaning if they want to win good reviews from patients.
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Man at the top welcomes clearer role
The role of the NHS chief executive job is now better defined than it was in the past, said Mr Nicholson. The job was not about 'exhortation', he said, but about 'aligning the new system with organisations and people'.
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DoH to tighten cost planning
Trusts are to be given tight new guidelines on capital investment to ensure that running costs of new buildings and equipment can be covered, and that new income can be generated from treating patients.
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MPs demand rethink on IT as reforms 'sleepwalking to disaster'
Two members of the Commons' public accounts committee have called for the national IT programme to be dismantled and local IT decisions handed back to trusts and GPs.
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Managers too preoccupied with technical detail
Managers are too preoccupied with technical detail rather than the benefits that reform delivers to patients, said Mr Nicholson, and urged trust managers to 'move the discussion on'.
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NHS Logistics vote to strike over transfer to DHL
Hospitals could be left without catering and medical supplies if a strike by 1,400 staff at supply agency NHS Logistics goes ahead.
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Dozens of PCT posts still unfilled
With just three weeks to go before the new primary care trusts officially take over, 53 are without a chair and no non-executive directors have been appointed.
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NICE to weed out inferior treatments
The role of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to be extended to identify ineffective treatments and to advise on reducing costs to the NHS.
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Cancer plan needs revision, says King's Fund
The national strategy for cancer services should be revised to take account of technology developments and the ageing population, according to the King's Fund.
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Four in five spearhead PCTs fall behind on inequalities
Four in five of the government's 'spearhead areas' are not on track to meet the government's 2010 health inequalities target, the Department of Health has admitted.
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Chief quits as £23m deficit is forecast for trust
The chief executive of the debt-ridden Hinchingbrooke Health Care trust in Huntingdon has resigned, saying his abrupt departure is 'in the best interests of the trust'.
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Lib Dems divided on accountability
King's Fund former chief executive Baroness Julia Neuberger has been given 12 months to chair a review of Liberal Democrat health policy.
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News analysis: Survey returns verdict on government action and priorities
With the party conference season in full swing, HSJ surveyed some of the organisations taking part in the Health Hotel series of fringe events. We asked for their verdict on government action and priorities, as well as how some of the major figures from across the political spectrum are doing.
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Mass A&E downgrade predicted
Up to 15 hospitals in one English region alone may need to downgrade to ensure that all accident and emergency units can operate safely, a new study claims.
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MP bids to halt A&E closure
A judicial review could hinder a provisional decision to close an accident and emergency department as part of reconfiguration plans.
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Analyses show under-use of ITC capacity
Independent treatment centres have carried out fewer than three-quarters of the procedures they have been paid for, according to new figures from the Conservatives.