All South Central articles – Page 62
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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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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.
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Private treatment centre to go ahead despite local critics
NHS South Central has said it will press ahead with controversial plans for a new independent sector treatment centre despite local concerns that added capacity is not needed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating the perfect acute hospital
Judges for the HSJ Award for acute healthcare organisation of the year said if you pulled together all the best practice around the country, you would have the perfect trust. So what would it look like, asks Daloni Carlisle
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Comment
What is behind the NHS surplus?
Last week’s revelation by HSJ that the NHS is heading for a 1.8bn underspend raises the spectre of renewed financial turbulence.
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Surplus-rich PCTs anxious of cuts in new allocations
Surplus-rich primary care trusts have expressed fears that a one-year funding allocation signals greater financial turbulence ahead.
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NHS underspends by £1.8bn
The NHS is heading for a record 1.8bn underspend this financial year, HSJ can reveal.The total surplus will be almost 2 per cent of the NHS budget. It is understood to be causing embarrassment at the Department of Health amid concerns that it will be accused of presiding over a ...
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Commissioning: FESC is not enough alone, poll suggests
HSJ's exclusive poll of one in four PCT chief executives and commissioning directors shows high levels of uncertainty over using FESC for commissioning, writes Alexis Nolan
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Telecare - improving the lives of patients with COPD
Fatima Holt explains how telecare is helping to manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a primary care setting, for more timely and effective care
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Health profile: experts say child obesity targets may miss the point
New targets to spur on efforts to tackle the nation's worst public health problems may not work, experts have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Public health networks reorganised
The public healthelectronic networks project has now come to an end and the content of some of the sites has been moved to new sites.
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HSJ Knowledge
Foundation trusts applications: shape up or ship out
The deadline for all acute trusts to apply for foundation status by 2008 has proved unrealistic. What now for those that have not made the leap? Helen Mooney reports
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Comment
Media Watch: Rose Gibb special
There's nothing the media likes more than an easy target and this week's was Rose Gibb, formerly chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, aka 'the dirtiest hospital in England'.
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Former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells chair was 'hung out to dry'
The chair of the hospital trust at the centre of an infection control scandal has attacked centralised control of the NHS as he stepped down.
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HSJ Knowledge
Foreign affairs: migration and the NHS
Uncertainty about the number of migrant workers in Britain means that planning for demand on local NHS services may become increasingly tricky, writes Alison Moore
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PCT denies new director has conflict of interest
Hampshire primary care trust has appointed a new director of commissioning - on secondment from commissioning firm Humana.