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Healthcare bodies in patient safety pledge
Key healthcare organisations will today make a public commitment to partnership in improving patient safety.The pledge will be made at a summit hosted by the National Patient Safety Agency and the Healthcare Commission.Read the press release here
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Minister calls for action on BME mental health services
Health minister Rosie Winterton has called for 'rapid improvement in the way mental health services respond to the needs of black and minority ethnic patients'.Ms Winterton said one in five BME patients treated in hospital for a mental health problem comes from a black and minority ethnic background.Read the press ...
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Cancer reform strategy board members announced
The advisory board for development of the new cancer reform strategy was announced by health minister Rosie Winterton today.The board's membership is drawn from experts across the cancer field including chief executives of major charities, cancer patients, social care and NHS clinicians and managers. See a list of board members ...
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New Deal for Carers launched
The government is to unveil its New Deal for Carers, which will see £33m used for measures to help people who care for elderly or disabled relatives.Most of the money, £25m, will go to local authorities to fund emergency respite care for people who need a break from the demands ...
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Infection control: an outbreak of innovation
A robust outbreak escalation process has helped a trust cut Clostridium difficile cases by 50 per cent in the past year. Em Wilkinson-Brice and colleagues explain how it was done
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Cancer care: quick, clever and caring
An ambulatory surgery service for women undergoing breast surgery has cut target times and saved money, as Jo Marsden and colleagues explain
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Thirteen areas make 18-week target pledge
Thirteen local health communities today pledged to meet the government's 18-week treatment target a full year before the rest of the NHS.The government has said that by the end of 2008, patients can expect a maximum wait of 18 weeks from referral to the start of treatment. Eighteen weeks is ...
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Minister launches coding strategy
Health minister Lord Hunt has launched a strategy document on using auto identification data capture technologies.Coding for success - simple technology for safer patient care encourages the NHS and medical industry to use a standard coding system to help prevent medical error, increase efficiency and save money.Read the press release ...
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Acute and PCT indicators extended
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Department of Health want to extend the current 13 quarterly Better Care, Better Value indicators for primary care trusts and acute trusts to 30 from the start of the next financial year.DoH commissioning director Duncan Selbie and NHS Institute chief executive ...
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David lee on acute mental healthcare
One characteristic that differentiates acute mental health services from acute hospital services is the fact that we don't have inpatient waiting lists - essentially all of our adult admissions are emergency admissions.
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Restructuring: how to get closure with your local MP
Anne Campbell offers pointers on how to get local MPs onside when your organisation
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Hewitt defends fall in bed numbers
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has been attacked for describing cuts to bed numbers as a sign of 'success' in a presentation to the cabinet.In a webchat this week she also highlighted how improvements in community nursing in Dudley to support those with long-term conditions had 'slashed' emergency admissions and meant ...
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SHA pays £2m for firm to size up PCT commissioning
South Central strategic health authority has called in turnaround specialists PricewaterhouseCoopers to assess whether its nine primary care trusts should contract out their commissioning functions to the private sector.
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News anlaysis: germinators look to Europe for next ideas in superbug war
The Dutch experience shows it is possible to get on top of MRSA and other superbugs - but it will be costly. Meanwhile, some UK hospitals are pioneering simple but effective strategies that could help turn the tide of deadly infections, writes Alison Moore
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Dual diagnosis guidance published
Guidance on improving the care received by people with both a mental health and drug problem has been launched by national director for mental health Professor Louis Appleby.The guidance recommends that all mental health clinical staff have the skills to assess and manage a substance misuse problem and that substance ...
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GP czar calls for family doctors to do hospital roles
GP czar Dr David Colin-Thome has made a clinical case for widening the role of GPs to include roles traditionally found in hospitals.In a report to health secretary Patricia Hewitt he says family doctors could carry out more minor operations, take responsibility for the six-week post surgery follow up and ...
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Book now for Good Management Live
Following the success of Good Management Live 2006, HSJ is pleased to hold a second series of GM Live events in association with the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, and sponsored by the Integrated Service Improvement Programme and Connecting for Health.
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The real impact of shifting care from hospitals to the community
CSIP was asked to evaluate the shift of resources from inpatient wards at Folkestone to a comprehensive range of health and social care services provided in the community.
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Kate Silvester on waste and value
Do work that adds value, cut out the rest, and you will save time and money as well as providing a better service.
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BMA in urgent care warning
Doctors are being edged out of urgent care in favour of non-medically qualified staff, the BMA has warned.Responding to the Department of Health's Direction of travel of urgent careconsultation, the BMA said it was concerned that primary care trusts were re-shaping urgent care around ...