All Service redesign articles – Page 157
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More trusts fail to meet hygiene code
The Healthcare Commission has said more trusts are declaring non-compliance with its hygiene code than did last year.
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HSJ Knowledge
New dataset to improve renal care
The Information Centre for health and social care.has introduced a new national renal dataset, which will provide the NHS with the information it needs to plan future renal services.
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Will Gordon Brown make a difference to the NHS?
Don't forget, now is your last chance to take part in HSJ's reader survey of what the NHS can expect under incoming prime minister Gordon Brown.
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Cast your vote on Gordon Brown
Don't forget, now is your last chance to take part in HSJ's reader survey on what the NHS can expect under incoming prime minister Gordon Brown.
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Supply agreement promises greater efficiency
The first national framework agreement for the supply of operating leases has been published by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency.
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NHS must not be run 'like a 1960s nationalised industry'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt rejected the idea that the NHS should be run by an independent board.
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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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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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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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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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Comment
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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'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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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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Comment
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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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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New initiative reaches out to carers
A 'New Deal for Carers' consultation has been launched by the Department of Health.
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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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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'.