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LINks scrutiny system to bar patient networks from access to key services
Local involvement networks, set to replace public and patient involvement forums, will be denied access to mental health facilities, children's care homes and non-communal areas of residential care homes.
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Weekly scrutiny for SHAs: junior doctor recruitment will be top priority
Strategic health authorities are to be scrutinised each week over their handling of the next round of the controversial recruitment process for junior doctors.
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Study points to QOF gaming
A government-funded study has found GPs are gaming their quality and outcomes scores to increase their income.
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Trusts face monitoring on take-up of private services
Primary care trusts in the North West risk being performance managed on the number of patients who use the private sector-operated national clinical assessment services across the patch, HSJ has learned.
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Service cuts urged at non-PFI hospitals
Primary care trusts wanting to reconfigure services were given a stark message in an economic analysis prepared for the NHS in London: financially, it will make sense to cut beds and services at non-private finance initiative hospitals.
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Bill exposes flaws in plans for greater patient involvement
'One of the strengths of the local involvement networks was supposed to be that, rather than examining the services in a particular institution, they could range across a whole area to gain a rounded view of all aspects of services users' experiences'
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Independent treatment centre move redefines choice
'The DoH appears to be considering pushing PCTs to use independent sector treatment centres.- even to the extent of trying to steer patient choice'
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Bear the burden of getting care just right
As patients demand more, it is vital to control variation while preserving truly personalised delivery, argue Geraint Lewis and Phyllis Shelton
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DoH publishes national patient choice survey
The Department of Health has published the results of the January 2007 national patient choice survey for England, which reveal that 45 per cent of patients recalled being offered a choice of hospitals for their first outpatient appointment.
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'Wreckage could sink Brown's flagship NHS policy'
In a speech to the UK's family doctor conference today, GP chair Dr Hamish Meldrum said that unless Gordon Brown 'clears the obstacles out of the way', the government's flagship NHS policy of cutting patient waiting times to 18 weeks will fail.
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Mental Health Bill amendments
The government has made new amendments to the Mental Health Bill.
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Report addresses fairness in the NHS
The British Medical Association has published a report on how the NHS can ensure disabled people are treated fairly.
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New initiative reaches out to carers
A 'New Deal for Carers' consultation has been launched by the Department of Health.
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Why the NHS should support refugee healthcare professionals
The NHS must do more to reduce the waste of talent and opportunity that high unemployment of refugee healthcare professional represents, argues Maeve Keaney
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John Murray on a joined-up service
'Devolution in the NHS means local priorities increasingly drive allocation of resources. While this development has many benefits, it can unfairly disadvantage patients with specialised conditions, who will inevitability be smaller in number and therefore have less of a voice locally'.
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David Peat on fitness for purpose
'Fitness for purpose has given us intelligence, new understandings and insights into the changing role of being a fully fledged commissioner in the new NHS. It has.helped us respond to the new realities and changes that have taken place in our relationships in and outside the NHS'
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The role of individual responsibility
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has stressed.that joint working should be the first, not the last, option considered by local authorities and primary care trusts.
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PBC as an incentive for change
Andy Newton explains how practice-based commissioning helped achieve effective service redesign at Bath and North East Somerset.primary care trust
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Hillingdon to invite private commissioner
The first primary care trust has been given the go-ahead to invite the private sector to run part of its commissioning function.
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Ofcare: assessment framework to rank trusts' performance
The Department of Health is developing a new vision for delivering better care and value in health and social care.