All Winter pressures articles – Page 30
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Closer to home
Although many hospital patients would be better off at home, intermediate care is regarded with scepticism in many quarters. A shift in attitudes is called for, according to Jacqueline Mallender and Andrew Richman
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Stepping stones
Co-operation between health and social services in one area has created a successful intermediate care structure for elderly people, explains Barbara Hitchins
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Milburn signals health and social care merger
Health secretary Alan Milburn has signalled that next month's national plan will involve wholesale NHS reform, including moves to merge health and social care.
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Harried, hounded - Gisela is left to her Owen devices
Iwas rung in advance to be tipped off that NHS waiting-list totals had finally fallen to 100,000 below the level inherited from the Tories and (like last week's HSJ editorial) was amused to notice what little media attention this long-awaited event generated. Nowadays, on-message folk think waiting times, not lists.
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Turning up the heat
Proposals from an expert group on critical care are already looking ahead to the service demands of next winter. And there's money available, too. Kaye McIntosh reports
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More autonomy for managers: Milburn
The NHS Executive's role will shift from performance management to change management after the launch of the 'national plan' in July, health secretary Alan Milburn has told HSJ .
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Vacuum task
With continuing uncertainty about the long-term future of devolved government, the furious pace of reform in the Northern Ireland health service has juddered to a halt. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Deacon warned as more winter crises lie in wait
A working group to look at ways of tackling winter pressures in Scotland has held its first meeting amid warnings of continuing pressure on 'fragmented' services.
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NI winter services 'grossly underfunded'
Northern Ireland's health and social services were 'challenged as never before' last winter, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has admitted.
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Easy self-Assembly?
The UK's three devolved power bases have had up to 10 months to forge their own identities. Patrick Butler asks key players how they see their progress
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First joint meeting of ministerial minds
The first meeting of the joint ministerial committee on health promised by prime minister Tony Blair in his post-Budget speech on modernising the NHS took place this week.
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Winter of discontent thawed by promise of massive funds
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget was the government's first chance to respond with hard cash to three months of bad headlines about the NHS - and growing pressure to fund healthcare through private insurance.
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Clinicians seek 'radical overhaul' of Scots NHS
The 'crisis' in the NHS in Scotland is worsening and will not be stopped without a 'radical overhaul' of healthcare delivery, senior clinicians warned this week.
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Crisis, what crisis?
The media was determined to get its 'NHS winter crisis', but officially there wasn't one, junior health minister Gisela Stuart told MPs. That didn't entirely get her off the hook, though, Patrick Butler reports
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Milburn wins plaudits for 'more beds' move
Health secretary Alan Milburn's promise of more NHS beds and a fresh focus on care for elderly people appears to have won the backing of key health service interest groups, boosting his attempts to sustain the momentum of his embattled reforms.
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Saddle up, pardner
A lot of people still need convincing that the arranged marriage between local government and the health service will be mutually rewarding. Maura Thompson sat in on their joint conference