All Health Service Journal articles in 5 June 2008
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Comment
Paul Jennings on listening to staff
Improving communication with staff took Walsall Teaching primary care trust from the bottom 10 per cent to the top 10 per cent in the national staff survey
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HSJ Knowledge
Suspending trust chairs and non-executives
New legislation coming into force this month gives the Appointments Commission the power to suspend trust chairs and non-executives. However, suspension is unlikely to occur often, as Janice Scanlan explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Change of focus for Primary Care Contracting
After NHS Primary Care Contracting lost its national funding, it had to ask each primary care trust to subscribe to its services. Despite positive feedback on its performance, it had to adopt a more practical focus to win support, say Helen Northall and Roy Greenhalgh
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HSJ Knowledge
Bringing a troubled PCT back from the brink
After forming from smaller trusts in 2006, Cambridge PCT found it owed £70m and needed to make some serious changes to avoid disaster. Gail Newmarch explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Understanding the new NHS standard contract for acute services
A new contract has tightened the rules governing interactions between acute care providers and commissioners. Johanne Smith explains the new requirements
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News
Darzi review: East Midlands opts for local focus
NHS East Midlands has focused on localism in its regional Darzi vision.The strategic health authority said it had divided its patch into smaller areas to make sure its proposals reflect the diversity of its residents.
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Comment
Michael White on private vs public
The detail I am most likely to remember from this week's events is the revelation that when Harold Macmillan was chancellor in 1956 he suppressed evidence of the link between cancer and smoking.
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News
Private providers and human rights
You report that a question mark remains over whether private providers in the NHS are subject to the Human Rights Act. Any attempts to narrow the scope of the act need to be robustly challenged, because this would leave people vulnerable to abuse, writes Jean Candler
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News
Patient records at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole
The figures quoted for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals foundation trust in your article 'Missing: the notes of more than a million outpatients' are misleading, writes Jackie France
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Leader
Monitor survey shows distance still to travel on FT governance
A survey of foundation trust governors by regulator Monitor reveals the distance still to travel to develop effective governance.
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News
Welsh merger trust on the rocks say former directors
Five former non-executive directors have gone public with their fears for the future of a newly merged Welsh trust. They claim Hywel Dda trust, which serves three counties in south west and west Wales, is floundering because the organisation launched without a proper leadership team in place.
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Leader
DH must step in to protect the vulnerable
The government needs to rethink its plan to exclude sectioned mental health patients from the protection of the Corporate Manslaughter Act for up to five years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Darzi review: Give old people a seat at the modernisation table
Services for older people are falling down government priority lists. Two consultant nurses argue for specialist care, in hospital and the community, to be made explicit in reform plans
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News
Darzi review: regions promise safer and fairer services
NHS West Midlands is to focus on prevention, quality improvement and patient involvement in a bid to tackle 'an unjustifiable variability in the safety and quality of services'.
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News
Parliament warns on NHS underspend damage
More than one in five NHS organisations were still in deficit by the close of the 2006-07 financial year, despite the health service itself achieving surplus.
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Comment
Media Watch: co-payment 'madness'
The fraught issue of 'co-payment' was one of the biggest health service stories this week, following the death of Linda O'Boyle from bowel cancer.
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News
Fewer deaths could mean more pay for consultants
Hospital consultants’ pay could be linked to outcomes such as the number of patients who die in their care, the NHS medical director has signalled.
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News
Hygiene code going unnoticed by most trusts
Less than a quarter of clinicians say their trusts are complying with infection control laws.
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News
Patient records at City Hospitals Sunderland
Further to your article on missing patient records, I would like to point out that the figures released by City Hospitals Sunderland foundation trust under the Freedom of Information Act in relation to availability of records do not show a rate of 19 per cent as being routinely unavailable for ...
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News
New King's College Hospital chief
I was interested to read Tim Smart's comment with reference to his work at BT and his intentions for King's College Hospital foundation trust, where he has been appointed chief executive, writes Jane Molloy