All Service redesign articles – Page 177
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
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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'
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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'.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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A freedom framework will unite former foes
With the debate about freedom from political interference raging, strategic health authority chief executive Mark Britnell outlines his model for compromise and wonders what an NHS charter might contain
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No fence for LINks
Funding for local involvement networks will not be ringfenced, the government has announced. In its response to consultation to its July proposal to establish the networks, the Department of Health said that funding to local authorities would be 'allocated as a targeted but not ringfenced grant'.
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Reprieved Macclesfield faces new review
A hospital which won a last minute reprieve for its maternity services is now to face a new challenge.
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Patient rights expected to be upheld in new report
The Commons health select committee is expected to recommend that visiting rights of patients' groups should be restructured, when it publishes its report on patient and public involvement tomorrow.
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Money no excuse for hampering progress
As a medic and former White House adviser, Dr Mark McClellan is a natural opinion leader on health policy. He explains his vision
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Pilots lead way in new era of high-tech 'telecare' at home
Three primary care trusts will be chosen next month to deliver hardware worth thousands of pounds to the homes of patients with long-term conditions, according to Department of Health head of primary care Gary Belfield.
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Surrey social enterprise prepares for launch
England's largest so-called 'social enterprise' offering healthcare services will launch in shadow form on 1 August.
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New push to engage with staff on reform
The government is creating an advisory group to 'provide strategic advice' on reform of the health and social care system.
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Minister: end third sector 'mutual loathing'
Commissioners have been urged not to hold third sector health services at 'arm's length'.
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Is this really the end of under-capacity?
Financial incentives and technology mean inpatient demand and length of stay are falling, although the population is ageing. In 10 years waiting lists will be a thing of the past say Celine Druilhe and Eric Louie
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Emergency services warning
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts should not be left to redesign emergency services locally without national planning, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro has warned.