Service design – Page 123

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    Simon Fradd on Darzi vs the GPs

    2008-07-15T09:00:00Z

    Sixty years ago, the medical profession took on Nye Bevan and lost - are we about to do the same thing again?

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    Darzi's vision - towards a quality-obsessed NHS

    2008-07-15T09:00:00Z

    Under Lord Darzi's recently published plans for the health service, clinicians will lead the charge to top-quality care. Ingrid Torjesen explains

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    Making clinical leadership happen

    2008-07-15T09:00:00Z

    Education and training are key components of Lord Darzi's plans to increase clinical leadership in the NHS. Ingrid Torjesen explains how the clinical landscape will change

  • News

    Annual health checks leading to changes at most trusts

    2008-07-14T12:02:00Z

    Ninety-one per cent of trusts have made changes because of the Healthcare Commission annual health check, according to a review of the first four years of the regulator's work.

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    UK cancer survivors top 2 million, claims charity

    2008-07-14T11:51:00Z

    At least 2 million people in the UK have survived cancer or are living with the illness while being treated for it, according to research by charity Macmillan Cancer Support.

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    CMO calls for focus on teen health

    2008-07-14T11:31:00Z

    Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has called for a focus on teenage health, including a national summit to take stock of health programmes and services for teenagers, more involvement of teenagers in designing health services, and establishing a young person's panel to advise on a national campaign on risk ...

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    Deaths data: under threat

    2008-07-14T09:00:00Z

    The national confidential inquiries into why patients die have saved lives, but funding problems now threaten their own survival. Rebecca Norris looks at their prospects

  • News

    Framework for promoting healthy lifestyles

    2008-07-10T12:58:00Z

    The Department of Health has published a framework for action on social marketing and public health which sets out how people will be encouraged to lead healthier lifestyles.

  • News

    Maternity services report highlights failings

    2008-07-10T12:54:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission has published a report on the state of maternity services in England showing that inadequate staffing and poor teamwork are a systemic national problem.

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on a good year for Darzi

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    As wine experts will occasionally admit, it's hard to know how a new vintage will perform. Wines age, maturation takes time. And a decent bottle may be overshadowed by a later blockbuster year.

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    Strategy will knit up the ravelled sleeve of care

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    Traditional institutional boundaries must be crossed and existing work patterns challenged before the elements of the NHS can come together to create care that fits patients perfectly

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    Question mark over future of NHS Institute

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    A question mark is hanging over the future of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement following Lord Darzi's review of the health service.

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    Move sex health provision to community says charity

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    The Terrence Higgins Trust has called on primary care trusts to apply Lord Darzi's access reforms to sexual health services to improve an unacceptably outmoded system.

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    CBI warning on stop-start procurement projects

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts that drag out procurements are hiking up the cost of schemes to taxpayers, the Confederation of British Industry has warned.

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    PCTs will have veto on Darzi integrated care pilots

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be expected to take a lead role in setting up and supporting integrated care pilots.

  • Comment

    Michael White on how Darzi looks from abroad

    2008-07-10T09:00:00Z

    An impeccable sense of timing and a wedding of young friends in Washington DC ensured I stepped off the plane at Heathrow this week uninformed about Lord Darzi's master plan for the NHS.

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    Independent Reconfiguration Panel appoints chief

    2008-07-08T12:30:00Z

    Richard Jeavons has been appointed as chief executive of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.

  • News

    BMA calls for end to healthcare market

    2008-07-07T11:51:00Z

    British Medical Association chair Hamish Meldrum has called for an end to the market in healthcare.Speaking at the BMA's annual conference, Dr Meldrum said the market brought 'competition not collaboration, fragmentation not continuity, inefficiency not efficiency'. He urged doctors to look at the Scottish model as an alternative.

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    Recruitment questions: overseas staff in the NHS

    2008-07-07T09:00:00Z

    A few years ago, the service was in the spotlight for plugging staffing gaps with overseas workers. Now restrictions have been imposed as vacancies evaporate. Is the NHS right to aim for a 'self-sufficient' workforce?

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    David Peat on 60 years with the NHS

    2008-07-07T09:00:00Z

    Call it a fortuitous coincidence if you will, but the NHS and I share the same birthday. Not to the day, but near enough.