All Yorkshire and the Humber articles – Page 82

  • News

    Lord Darzi puts next stage show on the road

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    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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    Gathering equality data in the health service

    2008-09-05T09:00:00Z

    Data on local service users plays a key role in shaping public health strategies and planning services that meet the needs of the community. Helen Bunter and Debra Canning examine how one PCT is improving data collection

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    Patient involvement: parlez-vous health?

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Willingness to learn a few foreign phrases is helping a PCT get closer to its minority communities. Lynne Greenwood reports

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    Hull trust buys private hospital

    2008-08-29T13:56:24Z

    Hulland East Yorkshire Hospitals trust has bought a private Nuffield hospital to avoid contracting out services to the independent sector.The trust said the new building, which will cost£10m to buy and make immediate improvements to, would save it money.Chief executive Stephen Greep said: "The major element will be that it ...

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    Under the radar: BME mental health

    2008-08-04T09:00:00Z

    Language barriers and stereotyping mean the mental health needs of black and minority ethnic older people are going unseen by commissioners. Kaye McIntosh reports

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    A look inside a care trust plus

    2008-07-07T09:00:00Z

    North East Lincolnshire is home to England's first care trust plus. Stuart Shepherd spoke to its ambitious - and entirely local - leader

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    Board members resign from troubled Scarborough trust

    2008-07-03T09:00:00Z

    Three board members have resigned from the troubled Scarborough and North East Yorkshire trust.

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    Self-harm services: help with the pain

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    An award-winning service earns the confidence of people who self-harm with empathetic care. Stuart Shepherd reports on how it is improving the lives of vulnerable people

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    Yorkshire publishes vision for delivering Darzi reforms

    2008-05-15T09:00:00Z

    Higher life expectancy and fewer admissions to hospital for patients with long-term conditions, brought about in part by increased patient responsibility, are among the goals for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber.

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    Sexual health - protection plea

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Stuart Shepherd visits Nottingham to see how the NHS is coping with a surge in sexually transmitted infections, amid calls to keep them top priority

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    Mental health equality drive

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Partnerships with imams are breaking down barriers between mental health workers and Sheffield's Pakistani community

  • News

    York researchers named senior investigators

    2008-04-14T12:13:00Z

    Five researchers from York University have been appointed to the NHS College of Senior Investigators.

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    Disease: a warning from history

    2008-04-14T09:00:00Z

    Improved public health, medical advances and greater public awareness should have consigned many diseases to the past. But now illnesses such as rickets and syphilis have staged a comeback. Ingrid Torjesen looks at the latest efforts to combat them

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    Connecting in cancer

    2008-04-03T11:06:28Z

    The recently published Cancer Reform Strategy, which sets the direction of cancer care for the next five years, has emphasised the importance of accurate and timely cancer statistics information to plan and evaluate cancer care and prevention activity, building a world-class cancer service for NHS patients in England.Cancer registries for ...

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    Managers should lend a listening ear to patients

    2008-03-20T09:00:00Z

    Patients need to be heard in the boardroom, not complaining in the media. But good patient and public involvement doesn't just happen - it needs a healthy investment of time, money and training

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    Médecins Sans Frontières?

    2008-03-17T09:00:00Z

    There are conflicting approaches to providing NHS care to those not entitled to it, and the charity Médecins du Monde is at the front line of the battle. Mark Gould reports

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    Born in Bradford project takes on infant mortality

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    Bradford's infant mortality rate is twice the British average. An ambitious project is tracking the lives of 10,000 babies in the archetypal deprived, multi-ethnic city in the hope of understanding why. Emma Dent reports. Pictures by Rii Schroer

  • News

    Practices and PCTs at odds over budget survey claims

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Strategic health authorities have questioned whether a national survey of practice-based commissioning is valid.

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    Business improvement qualification helps lean champions aim higher

    2008-01-22T09:00:00Z

    Airedale trust's lean champions have earned national vocational qualifications in business improvement techniques, helping them in their drive to eliminate wasteful practices and enhance patient care.

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    Creating the perfect acute hospital

    2007-12-18T12:32:47Z

    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