All Service redesign articles – Page 175
-
News
Media Watch
Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.
-
Comment
Media Watch
What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.
-
Comment
Media watch
The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'
-
HSJ Knowledge
Storing up trouble: the problem with materials
Seven months ago I joined the NHS from a role in operational management in manufacturing. One of the first things I noticed is that we seem to have missed the point on managing materials.
-
Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the right targets
Once upon a time the word target used to have many in healthcare reaching for their crucifixes, or whatever else was needed to ward off evil spirits.
-
Comment
'Turnaround teams' - a sticking plaster for a severed limb?
The ability to commission effective and efficient services is completely divorced from strategies to implement and provide cost-effective services, argue Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson
-
News
Target-chasing managers suffer 'pathological' levels of stress
Too many new policies, a lack of coherent strategy and invasive performance management are creating 'pathological' levels of stress among NHS middle managers, an NHS Confederation report has warned.
-
News
Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
-
News
We will keep it local, says Scots minister
Scotland's cabinet secretary for health and well-being has announced the new executive government would take 'an assumption against centralisation of services'.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Special report on ISTCs: Opportunity knocks
Independent sector involvement in the NHS has sparked fierce criticism. But consultants Andy Mullins and colleagues argue that it will be a catalyst for the innovation needed to ensure the long-term survival of the service
-
News
Protestors slam IPPR reconfiguration report
An umbrella group of health workers, unions and patients opposed to privatisation and closure plans have rubbished Institute for Public Policy Research reconfiguration claims.
-
News
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on a year of imagination
'I'd like us to look back on a time when people came to a big shed and had 10 minutes with the expert'
-
Comment
Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
-
Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
-
Comment
Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
-
News
Hewitt slates 'media myths'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt used her speech to the NHS Confederation's annual conference to acknowledge a 'difficult, often bruising' year and to attack media 'myths'.
-
News
Hemel Hospital to lose key services
Hemel Hempstead Hospital is to be stripped of its acute services despite a 30-year campaign to keep services in the town.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Get together
A new inspection regime - the comprehensive area assessment - is to be rolled out for a range of local services. HSJ and sister title LGC collected the great and the good to discuss how it will affect their work
-
News
Petitioners could get right to a response
Primary care trusts will be forced to react to petitions from service users and the public if controversial proposals from the Department of Health get the go ahead.
-
News
Foundation will take on troubled Good Hope
Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.