All Health Service Journal articles in 15 February 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Cancer care: quick, clever and caring
An ambulatory surgery service for women undergoing breast surgery has cut target times and saved money, as Jo Marsden and colleagues explain
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: quiz night conundrum
You will no doubt carry off your duties of quiz master with your usual aplomb, entertaining the audience with mock looks of surprise as you reveal the answers.
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News
Nurses' skill 'inadequate'
Trusts could be asked to ringfence some vacant posts for newly qualified workers, under plans being considered by NHS Employers.
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News
Trusts poach sexual health funding
Funds which should have gone to sexual health have been diverted elsewhere in almost two-thirds of primary care trusts, according to a survey by the Terrence Higgins Trust.
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News
Slow fall on infant mortality
Infant mortality rates are falling more slowly in poorer areas than in less deprived ones, according to a Department of Health report.
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News
More funding for new social enterprises small for side
Social enterprise organisations are set to receive a further cash injection in the government's comprehensive spending review, HSJ understands.
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News
Hewitt: NHS to grow faster than economy
NHS funding is likely to increase by at least 3 per cent beyond 2008, the health secretary has hinted.
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News
Doctors' co-operative set to expand
Centres for Clinical Excellence (CCE), the healthcare company set up as a doctors' co-operative, is set to become one of the UK's biggest private healthcare players treating NHS patients as it prepares to acquire Nations Healthcare and bids to take over Mercury Health, HSJ has learned.
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News
'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing
Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.
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News
LINks will fail public, warns CPPIH chair
Government proposals to make the NHS more accountable to patients will actually exclude the public from long-term decisions worth billions, MPs heard last week.
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News
Anger at India outsourcing plans
The NHS is to drastically increase the proportion of outsourced financial work carried out in India.
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News
After Eden, things look rosy in the social enterprise garden
With the possible exception of the Houses of Parliament, there are few places you could expect to encounter four government ministers and a member of the shadow cabinet in the space of less than six hours.
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News
Stopping needless operations could save £100m, says London Health Observatory
Stopping unnecessary operations could save London's NHS almost £100m, according to new research.
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News
'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing
Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.
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News
Call to share details on foreign medics
The General Medical Council is calling for better information sharing across European economic area countries to stop suspended medics from working in Britain.
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News
Leicester to cut 200 beds and 900 staff by 2009
Two hundred beds and 900 staff posts are to go at University Hospitals of Leicester trust - despite the organisation expecting to be £13m in the black this year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: can non-NHS bodies access the NHS pension scheme?
Our legal experts guide you through the pension implications for companies taking on NHS services
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HSJ Knowledge
How to optimise weight management interventions
With early deaths from obesity set to overtake those from smoking, a primary care service encouraging patients to address their weight is achieving measurable results
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HSJ Knowledge
Book reviews
A round-up of books to foster good management, from drug abuse care to strategies for healthcare education.
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HSJ Knowledge
David lee on acute mental healthcare
One characteristic that differentiates acute mental health services from acute hospital services is the fact that we don't have inpatient waiting lists - essentially all of our adult admissions are emergency admissions.