All Health Service Journal articles in 22 November 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Informed consent - can trusts ever meet the legal standard?
Despite clearer guidance on informed consent, trusts should take precautions to protect themselves from litigation in the event of misunderstandings. Frank Burns explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Cancer care - reaching out to communities
The Bengali Cancer Health Advocacy and Cancer Awareness Service was set up to address the needs of the Bengali community in Tower Hamlets. Caroline Moren and Ruth Bradley report on its progress
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on planning outpatient services
Co-ordinating outpatient clinics in a way that avoids overbooking, delays, over-running, underutilisation and inappropriate attendances requires a clear understanding of the demands on the system, as well as sound planning
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News
Pay-offs to managers are 'not a perk'
The NHS must reform the way managers are held to account rather than 'pointing the finger' at those who receive pay-offs, union Managers in Partnership has argued.
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News
In this week's HSJ
NewsThe NHS is heading for a record£1.8bn underspend this financial year, HSJ can reveal. The total surplus will be almost 2 per cent of the NHS budget. It is understood to be causing embarrassment at the Department of Health amid concerns that it will be accused of presiding over a ...
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News
Mental health: PCTs to target potential offenders
Commissioners will work closely with neighbourhood police to keep the mentally ill out of jail, the government's director of prison health has announced.
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Comment
Minority report: shameful race record harms staff and patients
A Healthcare Commission survey has revealed scandalously poor compliance with race equality legislation (for more on the survey, click here).
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News
Scotland health spending 'flatlining' for three years
Health services in Scotland are losers in the first SNP government's budget, seeing a real terms increase of just 1.4 per cent next year, a leading economist has warned.
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News
EU law opens safety loophole for foreign workers
A new European law could undermine patient safety by allowing foreign health professionals to work in the UK with minimal checks, clinical representatives have warned.
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Comment
Patients are driven to distraction by parking fees
Are hospital car park charges becoming a tax on patients and carers?
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News
Millions have undiagnosed lung disease
Almost 3 million people in the UK have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - more than three times those diagnosed, the British Lung Foundation has estimated.
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News
Patients could commission own healthcare, says Nicholson
Patients could soon be handed responsibility for commissioning their own care through individual budgets, the NHS chief executive has revealed.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: world class commissioning
World class commissioning, world class commissioning, world class commissioning, commission de classe du monde, world class commissioning, world class commissioning, world class commissioning, world class commissioning.
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Comment
Sophie Christie on the holy grail of NHS policy
NHS policy seems populated by some remarkably persistent ideas that pop up every decade or so
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News
Night-time trauma care gets damning verdict
Managers should improve job planning to limit a huge drop in the quality of trauma care at night.
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Comment
Michael White: inside Gordon Brown's mind
Are ministers in Alan Johnson’s health team now finding their feet in their new jobs after a lacklustre start? Are they landing a few blows on the other side too despite renewed talk of a broad consensus on the NHS’s future?
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Comment
Media Watch: Gordon Brown under fire
Gordon Brown has been coming under fire this week for his behaviour both past and present. The Sun blamed the prime minister for the decision, announced by health secretary Alan Johnson, to scrap six contracts for independent sector treatment centres. The £100m compensation to the dropped companies ‘could have built ...
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News
DoH commercial directorate to be broken up and procurement localised
The Department of Health’s commercial directorate is to be scaled down and regionalised and procurement of NHS private sector capacity handed to local commissioners.
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News
Most trusts breaking the law on race equality
The Healthcare Commission will launch a review of NHS trusts’ compliance with race equality law, after it emerged most are not complying with the Race Relations Act.
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News
Practice-based commissioning: PCTs blamed for sticking to old practices
Practice-based commissioning is being undermined by primary care trusts allocating funds to practices on a historical, rather than needs, basis, the Audit Commission has concluded.