All West Midlands articles – Page 112
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News
Alan Johnson launches new rules on patient involvement
Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced a series of policies to help avoid more NHS services falling to the “appalling” standards exposed at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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HSJ survey: Hospital managers act on Mid Staffs failures
Around half of hospital managers and other staff believe elements of poor standards found at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust exist at their own organisation, a HSJ straw poll suggests.
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Mid Staffs scandal: confed says NHS must 'put its own house in order'
The NHS Confederation has said the NHS must “put its own house in order” in response to the failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Mid Staffs reports: new duties on NHS to prove patient involvement
The government has announced that NHS organisations will have to publish information that proves they are involving patients to prevent a repeat of the failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Confed proposes peer review to avoid Mid Staffordshire repeat
The NHS Confederation has called on hospital trusts to invite others trusts’ directors to inspect their services to help prevent failures such as those at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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Blogs
NHS news blog: Confed proposes peer review to avoid Mid Staffordshire repeat
The NHS Confederation has called on hospital trusts to invite others trusts’ directors to inspect their services to help prevent failures such as those at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.The confederation has proposed a series of steps that should be take voluntarily in response to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Put co-ordinators at the heart of organ donation
The NHS has been challenged with upping organ donation. Stuart Shepherd looks at the vital role transplant co-ordinators can play in meeting this ambition
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Hospital death rates to be published on NHS Choices website
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has instructed the website NHS Choices to publish each hospital trust’s overall death rate.
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DH seeks views on new mental health strategy
A series of “listening events” is being held to gather views on the Department of Health’s new mental health strategy.
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Ex-BBC boss joins national leadership council
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has been named alongside an eclectic list of figures on the national leadership council for the NHS.
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Mid Staffordshire redundancies under scrutiny
Mid Staffordshire hospital trust paid out £1.3m in redundancy payments between 2006 and 2009, figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed.
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Comment
Michael White on the recent political populism
Watch out for political populism in troubled times. Most of us have been indulging in banker-bashing, but such enjoyably bad habits can be contagious and beneficial chiefly to extremists on the prowl. I spotted two crowd-pleasers that affect HSJ readers only this weekend.
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Strategic health authority advice to PCTs when planning for 2011-12
HSJ contacted the following primary care trusts to ask them what advice their strategic health authorities had given them regarding planning for 2011-12.
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Care Quality Commission defends Cynthia Bower
The Care Quality Commission has defended the appointment of its chief executive Cynthia Bower after the Conservatives called for an independent inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust scandal.
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Child diabetes figure 'higher than expected'
A national survey has found that almost 23,000 children and young people in England have diabetes.
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Sir Ian Kennedy sets record straight on Mid Staffordshire
Sir Ian Kennedy has written to the chair of the House of Commons health select committee to correct “misunderstandings” over the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Serious potential risks left unresolved at children's hospital
Serious concerns about clinical care at a children’s hospital were not acted upon due to a lack of communication and joint working among senior managers, regulators have revealed.
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TB battle still not won
The number of cases of tuberculosis in the UK is “still too high”, the Health Protection Agency warns today.
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Private board meeting risks spelled out
Less than a quarter of foundation trusts are holding their board of directors’ meetings in public, an HSJ straw poll suggests.
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When will the remaining trusts become foundations?
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has given trusts a deadline of December 2010 to submit their applications for foundation trust status.