All Health Service Journal articles in 28 February 2008
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HSJ Local
Deputy finance director leaves Whittington Health Trust
FINANCE: The deputy director of finance at Whittington Health Trust has left to take up a post at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Whittington awarded £750,000 for maternity upgrade
STRUCTURE: Whittington Health Trust was awarded £750,000 by the Department of Health to upgrade its maternity facilities.
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HSJ Local
New nursing director for Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed a new nursing director.
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HSJ Local
Hillingdon would record £21.2m deficit without bailout
FINANCE: Hillingdon Primary Care Trust is anticipating ending 2012-13 with a deficit of £21.2m, before bailout.
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HSJ Local
Hillingdon plans whole health economy review
FINANCE: The west London borough is planning a review of the entire health economy, a report to the board of the hospital trust reveals.
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HSJ Local
NHS North Central London supports Whittington FT bid
STRUCTURE: NHS North Central London is supporting Whittington Health Trust’s bid to become an independent foundation trust.
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HSJ Knowledge
Doctor-manager relationships: the big fight
NHS hospital power has long been in the hands of two sets of people: managers and clinicians, and tension has occasionally spilled out of the ring. In the latest article in our series on 60 years of the NHS, Daloni Carlisle looks at the dynamics
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News
Leaked memo reveals national locum shortage
Leaked Department of Health documents have revealed a national shortage of locum hospital doctors, with some trusts reporting they are 'lucky if applicants attend for interview'. HSJ first highlighted the issue last year and as recently as 14 February the DH was insisting there is no evidence of a widespread ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Equal... or else
The consequences are set to get a lot more serious for trusts which fail to meet their race equality obligations, writes Rachael Heenan
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating health-promoting hospitals
Liverpool's Cardiothoracic Centre and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital have developed public health strategies aimed at improving the health of hospital staff, patients and the wider community affected by the hospitals, as Dr David Taylor-Robinson explains
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Comment
Michael White on politics
In more innocent days, when a protester smuggled horse manure into the Commons public gallery one of us coined the joke 'Ordure, ordure' for Mr Speaker to utter.
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Comment
Media Watch
'A new centre for binge drinking has been identified in the heart of London,' reports The Sunday Times.
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Comment
Simon Stevens on local pay and national prices
When doctors everywhere are being urged to become more evidence based in their clinical practice, a standard retort is that health policy makers should do the same.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to spend less while doing more
New national reference costs data shows that in 2006-07 the NHS in England spent less cash on inpatient, day case and emergency care than in 2005-06. Scroll down to view the charts at the end of the story.
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News
Monitor fights shy of legal tussles
Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.
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News
Johnson said to favour principles over 'rights'
Health secretary Alan Johnson is against a patients' charter-style NHS constitution, HSJ has been told.
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News
Department plays down medic supply fears
The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.
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News
Morgan leaves Confed for Wales
Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.
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News
Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'
NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.
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News
Tee calls for cash incentives
NHS Direct could be paid extra to focus on taking calls from patients living in deprived areas or with specific health needs, its chief executive Matt Tee has revealed.