All Health Service Journal articles in 12 August 2010
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News
Hospitals may miss targets as 'financial risk' increases
Hospitals could miss key targets on cancer care as the level of “financial risk” across the health sector increases, a new report has warned.
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News
UK leading in fight against breast cancer
Death rates from breast cancer fell faster in the UK than any other major European country, experts have claimed.
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Comment
Milton’s would-be milk snatch
As the overblown furore over school milk came and, almost as quickly, went after David Cameron stepped in, I was left feeling a bit sorry for Anne Milton, the coalition’s Conservative public health minister.
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HSJ Knowledge
Saving money with social marketing
Few in the public sector are more keenly aware of the burden of cost savings than the NHS.
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News
NHS set to lose hundreds of management trainees
The NHS has significantly scaled back its graduate management scheme amid fears it could be spending millions on trainees who will struggle to find jobs.
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HSJ Knowledge
A rapid return to high quality NHS reporting
Michelle Rhodes and Jim Hatton explain how their trust’s emergency department acted decisively to bring performance reporting and data quality up to the mark
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News
York Hospitals FT freezes manager recruitment
York Hospitals Foundation Trust has imposed a management recruitment freeze as part of a package of measures to save £30m over the next three years.
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Comment
Steve Field on public health and milky u-turns
His members have been given the key to NHS commissioning, and now Royal College of GPs chair Steve Field has weighed in on the country’s public health.
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News
GP referral management schemes fail to deliver
GP consortia should move away from using referral management schemes when they take control of NHS commissioning, as the schemes do not save money. A report by the King’s Fund also warned they can undermine quality of care.
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News
NHS management cuts hotspots revealed
An HSJ investigation has revealed the clearest national picture to date of the primary care trusts being hit hardest by NHS management savings.
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Comment
'How is the state going to conscript GPs?'
In seeking to diminish the role of the state, the government has established a policy that attacks NHS bosses as the cause of most problems and abolishes state run primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. Instead, it proposes GP led consortia to do commissioning.
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News
World class commissioning values are a legacy for the long haul
Latest world class commissioning scores show PCTs rising to new challenges in needs assessment and service design. With this responsibility transferring to GP consortia the lessons in the high quality ‘competencies’ must survive, says David Stout
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Leader
World class commissioning: this ridiculed plan might just be working
World class commissioning arrived too late and burdened with a name that virtually guaranteed ridicule. But, unfashionable though it may be to say, it is beginning to deliver results.
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News
World class commissioning interactive map
Compare PCTs across the country with HSJ’s interactive world class commissioning map.
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Comment
GP governance: handle with care
How will GP consortia be held accountable for their commissioning activities?
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News
Trauma care ‘needs networks at regional level’
The location of NHS regional trauma centres should be organised to deliver required levels of care rather than to deal with the predicted volume of patients, according to the NHS Confederation.
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News
World class commissioning: PCTs raise the bar in final assurance test
Primary care trusts have set out their stall as support agencies for GP consortia by significantly improving their performance against the standards and competencies assessed in the second - and last ever - world class commissioning assurance test.
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Comment
'La la Lansley has abolished the people who monitor us'
‘There is £80bn out there to be carved up between ourselves and the GPs. Well, surely that makes everyone a winner now?’
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News
Cleaning cut claims rejected
A Scottish health board has rejected claims by Labour that “cuts” to cleaning jobs are putting patients’ health at risk.