All South Central articles – Page 61
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Ambulance trust plans lower target for rural call-outs
An ambulance trust is proposing to reach a smaller proportion of life-threatening emergencies within eight minutes in rural areas than in urban.
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Local community gets involved in NHS budgeting
In the UK's first health-related participatory budgeting event, residents in Thornhill, Southampton were invited to vote on which health and well-being projects they thought would best meet the health needs of the community.
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Trust merger derails controversial reconfiguration plan
A controversial reconfiguration plan has been put on hold - because two of the trusts affected are likely to merge. The boards of Royal West Sussex trust - based in Chichester - and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust have agreed the merger in principle and are now doing detailed work.
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NHS work experience: a staff perspective
In the last of our series on NHS work experience, a nursing and physiotherapy assistant at Southampton General Hospital gives a staff perspective
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Surge of acute contracts puts strain on PCTs' spend targets
Primary care trusts are battling to stay clear of deficit as their finances come under pressure from a surge in secondary care work.Many PCTs overspent on their commissioning budgets for the first three months of the financial year and some are now looking to make savings in other areas to ...
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Measure the mix of interventions
All primary care trusts must become world class by commissioning services that 'add life to years and years to life' and specifying the outcomes to be delivered.
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Guilty by emission as carbon cuts loom large
The NHS emits a million tonnes of carbon a year, but it must cut this figure drastically. Helen Crump asks whether trusts are giving this issue the priority it requires and highlights some innovative ideas.
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Nuffield hopes to avoid merger with health science plan
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre trust is seeking to stave off the threat of a merger by forming an academic health science centre with Oxford University.
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Learning disabilities and health
The health of people who have learning disabilities has long been neglected. Louise Hunt reports on how 'liaison nurses' can improve access to health checks and care
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Darzi review: news, video and opinion
The latest on the review, plus an exclusive Darzi image gallery!
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End of postcode lottery could put PCTs in a spin
The Primary Care Commissioning Network will pool PCTs' expertise to help them make decisions on using new treatments while they wait for NICE guidance. But trusts that choose to ignore the network's advice could find themselves facing a media storm. By Alison Moore
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Darzi review: South West to match Europe's best
NHS South West is planning to match the lowest rates in Europe for smoking, cancer, heart disease and stroke deaths and healthcare associated infections.
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Darzi review: NHS South Central to tackle health inequalities
NHS South Central has pledged to work to reduce massive variations in life expectancy and access to services.
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Training: cognitive therapy first
A nursing director has developed an online cognitive behavioural therapists' course as part of his MBA. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Survey reveals pessimism over NHS progress
The general public's satisfaction with the running of the NHS nationally has fallen, results of an Ipsos MORI poll published last week show.
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Panel saves services at Horton Hospital
The independent reconfiguration panel has advised the health secretary to reject Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust's proposals to downgrade paediatric, gynaecological and obstetric services at Horton Hospital because it would not provide an accessible or improved service for local people.
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Social movements in the health service
A hospital division has achieved unified working by agreeing a charter for staged change, write Jon Baber and Mary Sexton
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Value for many - improving learning difficulties services
A consultation on learning difficulties services seeks to help most service users to live in the community, while increasing monitoring and support. Mark Gould reports
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Public involvement - use strategy to buck the trends
Commissioners, stakeholders and public are tackling health spend issues together within one primary care trust's strategic approach
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Longer GP hours are not a priority for patients, Darzi is told
Regional leaders of the review of the NHS are set to meet health minister Lord Darzi today to discuss emerging themes from their work.