All Health Service Journal articles in 4 December 2008
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London PCTs to pay off capital's debts
London primary care trusts are to pay off the historic debt of trusts in the capital to prevent it reaching £579m by 2011.Backed by NHS London, the PCTs are proposing establishing a collective fund to pay off the debts, consisting of £304m of 'topslice' funding held by the strategic health ...
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NHS 'wasting time and money' on outsourcing services
The NHS is 'wasting precious time and money' on outsourcing services, trade union Unison is claiming.
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Sir Ian Kennedy to oversee academic health science centre selection
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy is to oversee the process to select the organisations that will be designated academic health science centres.
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Support for practice based commissioning 'static'
Four in 10 GPs are still not supporting the Department of Health's practice based commissioning initiative, new figures reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS board leadership and the patient safety campaign
In the time it takes you to read this, one or more incidents may have harmed or even killed patients being cared for in your hospital. NHS boards should signal their commitment to addressing the problem by joining the Patient Safety First campaign
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NHS leadership forum endorses SHA role in developing talent
NHS leaders have rebutted the idea that strategic health authorities will be redundant in an era of strengthened commissioners and trusts.
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Emma Dent on using the NHS
Pharmacies in my neck of the woods often have large posters that proclaim: 'In (insert name of somewhat notorious London borough) NHS patients can usually choose where to have their treatment' in their windows.
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NHS top-up confusion persists
Campaigners are demanding clarity over whether patients using non drug-based NHS services will be able to 'top up' their care.
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National quality board named as NHS prepares for international comparison
The NHS will be compared with its international peers in annual reports by the soon to be created national quality board.
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Leader
Baby P: beware the mob gathering outside your gates
Anyone working in the health service should fear the implications of the public baying for the blood of social workers and health staff in the wake of the death of Baby P.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Awards 2008
HSJ celebrated the best in healthcare at its annual awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
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Comment
Michael White on the public sector workforce
'Welcome to Soviet Britain,' the Daily Mail's headline roared this week. What on earth is the scourge of the NHS complaining about this time? I murmured, flinching over my first cuppa of the day.
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Scottish NHS underspends this year as tougher times loom
The NHS in Scotland spent less than its total budget last year but watchdogs are warning of tough times ahead.
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London hospitals told to prepare for loss of income
Local hospitals in London are being told to prepare for a reduction in their income of 15-25 per cent.
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David Flory: payment by results tariff will be right, not rushed
The Department of Health will postpone plans to introduce a new payment by results tariff next year if it cannot prevent it from financially destabilising specialist hospitals.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pharmacy's perfect prescription for community health
Local pharmacies are more than just a purveyor of pills. They have the potential to improve the health of communities if commissioners have the courage to invest in them
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on commissioning for quality and innovation
We now know the 'road test' phase of tariff setting for the English NHS begins on 8 December, when the draft tariff for 2009-10 will at last be published.
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Hygiene inspections: trusts must clean up in fear of harsh penalties
Last week's Healthcare Commission report found most trusts are not sticking to the hygiene code. The launch of the new regulator next year means they may not get away with it for long. Alison Moore reports
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Mental health chief promises a clean sweep
The new chief executive of a troubled mental health trust has pledged to stay in post for at least three years to clear the 'debris' left by her predecessors. Jackie Daniel's post at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust was made permanent last week.
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Effort required on BME mental health inequality
NHS managers must improve mental health services for black and minority ethnic groups, the Healthcare Commission has urged. It also called for 'renewed efforts' to provide more single sex wards.