All Health Service Journal articles in 10 April 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving the detection of COPD
There are over 15 million people in England with long-term conditions. Lord Darzi's interim report last October highlighted how less than 50 per cent of patients with long-term conditions receive optimal treatment, and that care does not always meet recommended guidelines.
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HSJ Knowledge
The Health and Social Care Bill - changing regulation
The new Health and Social Care Bill could radically change the way healthcare is regulated. Susan Thompson explains
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HSJ Knowledge
The Corporate Manslaughter Act: a guide for boards and managers
The Corporate Manslaughter Act has come into force, opening NHS organisations to possible prosecution. Andy Hopkin explains how trusts can prepare themselves
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News
Staff survey shows low opinion of senior management
Trusts have been urged to address a ‘breakdown’ in the relationship between senior managers and staff, following the results of the fifth annual NHS staff survey.It is the first time the Healthcare Commission’s survey of every trust in England has asked specific questions about senior management.
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News
QOF harms inequality progress
The freedom of GPs to 'exception report' patients may be undermining efforts to reduce health inequalities, experts have told the Commons health select committee.
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News
On the minimum practice income guarantee
The minimum practice income guarantee was agreed because without this supplement the majority of the practices would have earned less from the new contract than the old one, writes Abdul Ghafoor
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News
New unit set up as trusts miss green targets
Four out of 10 NHS managers have not yet begun to develop plans to reduce carbon emissions in the health service, despite green targets set by the Department of Health.
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News
Swindells to go private with Tribal
The Department of Health's interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department and the NHS for the private consultancy Tribal.
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News
Freedom of information rules
Many public authorities find that freedom of information requests sometimes raise complex questions that can be hard to get right, writes Maurice Frankel
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News
Local targets are the way to fight inequality, MPs told
Performance against national inequality targets may tell us little about how successful primary care trusts are in dealing with local challenges, the NHS Confederation has warned MPs.
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News
Party politics do not explain the facts
In Michael White's column, the exchange between Conservative MP James Gray and health minister Ben Bradshaw was focused on the political context of changes to health services in Chippenham, writes Jeff James
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HSJ Knowledge
Expert witness immunity: in the interests of justice?
Should expert witnesses face sanctions if their testimony is found to be incorrect? Carolyn Wilson takes a closer look
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News
HIV exemptions
In your article Medecins sans frontieres?, you suggested HIV is a notifiable disease, when it isn't, and implied that HIV treatment is exempt from charging, but it is not, writes Vicky Field
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Blogs
GPs in a sea of evidence
I refer to your feature on how GP practices are ignoring clinical evidence. Colleagues here at the National Association of Primary Care acknowledge that most GPs are drowning in a sea of evidence-based knowledge and guidelines, writes Johnny Marshall
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News
Gibb sues former employer
Rose Gibb, the former chief executive who received a £75,000 pay-off after presiding over a fatal infection outbreak, was prepared to 'stay and face the music', according to her trade union. She is suing her former employer for a further £175,000 plus interest, claiming she was forced to leave.
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News
DH poaches GP guarantee payments to fund pay rise
The Department of Health has begun its clawback of the controversial minimum practice income guarantee by accepting a pay recommendation for GPs that would give practices an average net increase of 0.2 per cent.The move came as other NHS staff groups were offered a three-year pay deal worth 2.75 per ...
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News
DH slated over freedom of information record
The Department of Health has been lambasted for the way it handles requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
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News
Wiltshire scrutiny committee
Michael White's representation of the Wiltshire health overview and scrutiny committee is inaccurate and misleading, writes Roy While
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News
New release date for commissioning review
The long-awaited value for money assessment of the framework for procuring external support for commissioners will now be completed next spring, the Treasury has revealed.
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News
Patient safety tops list of complaints to Healthcare Commission
Patient safety has emerged as the biggest area of concern in complaints that are handled by the Healthcare Commission.