All Service redesign articles – Page 177

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: the new SHA

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority

  • Comment

    Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'

  • Comment

    Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'

  • News

    Hewitt slates 'media myths'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.

  • Comment

    A freedom framework will unite former foes

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    No fence for LINks

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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'.

  • News

    Reprieved Macclesfield faces new review

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A hospital which won a last minute reprieve for its maternity services is now to face a new challenge.

  • News

    Patient rights expected to be upheld in new report

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    Money no excuse for hampering progress

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    As a medic and former White House adviser, Dr Mark McClellan is a natural opinion leader on health policy. He explains his vision

  • News

    Pilots lead way in new era of high-tech 'telecare' at home

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Surrey social enterprise prepares for launch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    England's largest so-called 'social enterprise' offering healthcare services will launch in shadow form on 1 August.

  • News

    New push to engage with staff on reform

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The government is creating an advisory group to 'provide strategic advice' on reform of the health and social care system.

  • News

    Minister: end third sector 'mutual loathing'

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Commissioners have been urged not to hold third sector health services at 'arm's length'.

  • Comment

    Is this really the end of under-capacity?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Emergency services warning

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    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.