All Health Service Journal articles in 15 April 2010
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS managers' pay
Grim reading for managers returning to work on Monday as virtually all the papers ran with a report on managers’ pay increasing faster than nurses’.
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NewsVTE prevention help needed
A standard hospital drug chart should be introduced to help trusts meet demands to prevent venous thromboembolism, say the medical royal colleges.
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Richard Vize and Harry Hill
As readers may have heard, HSJ editor Richard Vize is leaving us this week to take up a tricky new post as spin doctor in chief at education regulator Ofsted.
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News‘Few quick fixes’ for London health inequalities
An “ambitious and far reaching” strategy to reduce health inequalities in the capital has been published by Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
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Community
Fessing up
Most of our readers spotted the date - 1 April - on the “important notice” we emailed last week, warning that a technical error had caused our website to publish the names of anonymous commentators.
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CommunityFarewell, Tim Kelsey
Dr Foster founder Tim Kelsey’s leaving do invitation depicts him as John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn, the “fearless one-eyed marshall who never knew a dry day in his life”.
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LeaderNHS medics must face the issue of productivity
Trusts are taking tentative steps into the landmine riddled territory of their consultants’ productivity.
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NewsPreventable disease warning
Doctors at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool have warned cs are reaching epidemic proportions.
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NewsWest Midlands fares worst on patient dignity target
NHS West Midlands has mounted a robust defence of trusts in the region which failed to meet the target on delivering same sex accommodation.
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Dearth of NHS performance data threatens quality improvement
The dire lack of information on the safety and effectiveness of much NHS care has been spelled out in a report by members of the NHS national quality board.
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NewsCQC powers were weakened
Powers to prosecute trusts failing to meet registration standards were watered down in a bid to avoid legal challenges and bad publicity, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCosmetic register launched
A voluntary registration scheme has been launched for practitioners and organisations that provide injectable cosmetic treatments, such as Botox. The scheme will be run by Independent Healthcare Advisory Services.
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NewsTories warned on GP commissioning
A future Conservative government will need “the wisdom of Solomon” if it is to promote GP commissioning while also tackling poor primary care, the new chief executive of the King’s Fund has warned.
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CommunityMerron Watch - the election campaign
Purdah left last week’s DH media diary rather empty, but as always Gillian Merron was an unstoppable whirlwind of activity.
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CommentMichael White: the election campaign
How is the election going so far for you? No, don’t answer that if you would rather not. What with that ritual controversy over the relative merit of rival tax hikes, week 1 was quietly unimpressive, although the NHS surfaced in the campaign at the weekend.
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NewsNHS trusts issue wake-up call on consultant productivity
Trusts are challenging senior doctors to spend more time delivering care and to justify hours spent on non-clinical work, in what is being seen as a belated “wake-up call” on consultant productivity.
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NewsPCT faces protest over historic building sell-off
A London primary care trust is facing criticism from the chair of a neighbouring acute trust over plans to sell off a pre-war health centre.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on the NHS budget
Here’s a summary of the financial plan for the English NHS.