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HSJ KnowledgeWorking Hours: NHS organisations on track to meet working time directive
Most NHS organisations are on track to have their staff working an average of no more than 48 hours a week by 1 August
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Working Hours: top tips to meet the working time directive
Here is a collation of invaluable tips from experts on achieving the European working time directive
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Working Hours: how to work less without compromising training
Rethinking its emergency service enabled Homerton University Hospital foundation trust to maintain junior doctors’ training time while achieving compliance on hours
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Working Hours: communication and teamwork generate results
It was communication and collaboration that put Alder Hey Children’s foundation trust on track for EWTD compliance
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Diagnostic test waiting times fall sharply
Diagnostic waits have fallen sharply over the last month, Department of Health statistics show.
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NewsCare Quality Commission names trusts registered with conditions
Four foundation trusts and six primary care trusts are among the 21 organisations that have failed to assure the new regulator they are meeting infection control standards.
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CommentPaul Corrigan: foundations are the future
Opponents of foundations say that their success and financial strength is the result of unequal advantages - but that should not stop them helping weaker trusts
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NewsInfections fines may put Leeds trust at risk of financial deficit
Leeds Teaching Hospitals could be the first trust to fall into deficit because of fines levied by the primary care trust for failure to bring hospital infections under control.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat can turn the tide of the obesity epidemic?
By mid-century the cost to the NHS of weight related health problems could double to more than £8bn and a quarter of UK children may be obese. Emma Dent asks what is being done about a huge challenge
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NewsCynthia Bower sets out her vision for Care Quality Commission
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has made it clear that trusts have no excuse not to meet hygiene code standards by next week’s deadline.
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HSJ KnowledgeBig break for the clinical coders
Improving coding is a priority for the NHS. Robin Gammon explains how one trust built and trained a dream team of coders
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NHS financial forecast worsens
The NHS has been issued with stark new estimates of the impact the recession will have on its finances.
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MPs oppose options for trusts that miss FT deadline
The NHS will face significant political opposition to attempts to eliminate all non-foundation trusts.