All South articles – Page 124
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on caring for NHS staff
Having just returned from holiday, I am once again struck by how much attention goes into the little things done by industries that focus heavily on customer care.
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News
Rethink maternity service plans, panel tells PCTs
A government panel has slammed two primary care trusts for failing to consult on plans for a radical re-design of maternity services.
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News
Lord Darzi puts next stage show on the road
Lord Darzi began a 'roadshow' tour of strategic health authorities this week, visiting NHS South East Coast and NHS Yorkshire and the Humber.
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on foundation trust tips
Well, we did it. Sussex Partnership foundation trust - a teaching trust of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School - was born on 1 August 2008.
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News
Equality lead slams NHS track record
The only equality director at strategic health authority level has called for the NHS to tackle race discrimination by setting ethnic quotas for managers if necessary.
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News
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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Leader
Management must do more to ensure the NHS is free of racism
Apart from legal and moral obligations to its own staff, there is an even more powerful reason why the NHS needs to be sure it is free of discrimination.
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News
Minority staff get worse deal on jobs, pay and grievances
Widespread disadvantages faced by black and minority ethnic NHS staff have been laid bare in a stark analysis of recruitment, bullying, grievance and disciplinary rates.
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News
Trusts warned C difficile probe decision sets no precedent
The decision not to launch a criminal investigation into deaths at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust will not set a precedent, NHS managers have been warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Palliative care: on their terms
Big Lottery funding means young people in West Sussex get holistic palliative care in an environment of their choice - even if that means down on the beach
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News
West Sussex refers reconfiguration decision to health secretary
Major changes to hospitals in West Sussex have been referred to the health secretary after councillors said there was 'insufficient clarity' about which services would be provided where.
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News
No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths
No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Counter Fraud Service: watching the detectives
The NHS loses tens of millions of pounds a year to cheating, but some observers are asking if the Counter Fraud Service is getting too tough. Helen Mooney reports
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News
West Sussex PCT 'disappointed' over reconfiguration decision
The chief executive of West Sussex primary care trust has said he is disappointed that the local council has decided to refer a reconfiguration decision to the health secretary.
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News
CBI warning on stop-start procurement projects
Primary care trusts that drag out procurements are hiking up the cost of schemes to taxpayers, the Confederation of British Industry has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Recruitment questions: overseas staff in the NHS
A few years ago, the service was in the spotlight for plugging staffing gaps with overseas workers. Now restrictions have been imposed as vacancies evaporate. Is the NHS right to aim for a 'self-sufficient' workforce?
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News
Regions braced for change as plans put Darzi's vision on map
The strategic health authorities have set out their stalls but is there anything new in the proposals and are they likely to make regional variations in care inevitable? Alison Moore investigates
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on being there for your staff
Bill Clinton used to say the most important attribute of a leader was being there. This gets tested when things go wrong, but also when they are going well.
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News
County council tries to wrest control of PCT
A county council has launched an audacious bid to take over its local primary care trust.
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News
Darzi review: regions promise safer and fairer services
NHS West Midlands is to focus on prevention, quality improvement and patient involvement in a bid to tackle 'an unjustifiable variability in the safety and quality of services'.