All Health Service Journal articles in 21 October 2010
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Comment'Who will own the NHS?'
Somewhere between this week’s spending review and the parliamentary debates on the Health Bill, we will learn where the real balance of power between the commissioning board and GP consortia will lie.
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SupplementsEnergy efficiency management
The government’s recent pledge to cut UK carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020 means cutting energy consumption is now a high priority. With the public sector spending more than £2.5bn on energy every year, a great opportunity presents itself for the NHS to work with energy suppliers to ...
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NewsLate payment rules eased
The European parliament has voted to soften the EU late payment directive, which could have led to over £100m in fines for NHS organisations.
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NewsSHAs in the dark on redundancy plans
Two strategic health authorities have admitted they have no idea how many employees are at risk of redundancy in their regions and are playing a minimal role in helping staff find new jobs.
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CommentMedia Watch: digital drive and damaging cuts
After cloth merchant Sir Philip Green got backs up last week with talk of waste, Martha Lane Fox is the latest entrepreneur to try telling public servants how to do their jobs.
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NewsImprovement Foundation's former staff lose NHS screening contract
The NHS cancer screening programme has pulled out of a deal with former staff of the Improvement Foundation amid concerns about how much money the failed company still owes primary care trusts.
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Comment‘Part of “Waiting for Osborne” consisted of Lansley reassuring voters he has GP support’
At a conference the other day I heard an entrepreneurial medic giving a glowing account of a GP led consortium and all the wonderful Lansley style things it is doing for its patients in the South. Oh brave new world!
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NewsFair trading complaint raises healthcare competition warning
Lax regulation is keeping new private and NHS entrants out of the healthcare market, reports Edward Davie
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Comment'La La is throwing his limited political capital into reshuffling bureaucracy'
It’s all getting rather confusing with La La Lansley. Is he the mild mannered janitor who turns in to Hong Kong Phooey, or is he just the janitor for Stephen Dorrell?
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NewsSingle rooms no better say economists
Giving patients their own hospital room does not improve infection rates or lengths of stay and increases the likelihood of falls, unpublished research for the Department of Health shows.
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NewsBad referrals waste district nurses’ time
Every mismanaged referral to a district nurse wastes five hours of their time, research by the provider arm for three London primary care trusts has found.
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NewsGuide hopes to avoid death rate panic
The NHS is launching a coordinated attempt to manage the reaction to this year's Dr Foster Hospital Guide, due next month.
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NewsTrusts must offer choice of consultant led team from April
The government will publish a wealth of “unpolished” data on clinical performance to help deliver its promise to give elective patients choice of which consultant led team will provide their care.
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NewsNHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs
NHS London has finalised the new management structure for the first of its merged primary care trusts.
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NewsPCTs differ widely over antibiotics prescription
There are wide disparities in antibacterial drugs prescribing by primary care trust area, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.
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LeaderHSJ Finance: helping you achieve NHS efficiency
This week HSJ introduces a new section in the magazine. HSJ Finance has two goals: to explore how increasing financial pressures are impacting on the NHS, and to plot the developing relationship between the service and the private sector.
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NewsChancellor issues jobs and pensions threat
Chancellor George Osborne has announced spending plans that will force public sector staff to pay £1.8bn a year more towards their pensions and lead to 490,000 job losses.
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Comment'What will a real increase in the NHS budget actually mean?'
The 2010 spending review has announced a real rise each year for NHS funding to 2014-15. However, other spending departments now face a horror show of real cuts in their budgets.
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LeaderWe need NHS managers to tackle the first financial crisis since 1987
Today the government’s spending review will be announced and the implications for the NHS will start to become clear.
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NewsPublic sector managers unprepared for spending cuts
More than two-thirds of public sector managers are not ready to deal with imminent cuts coming from the government’s spending review, a new survey has reported.