Health Service Journal
7 August 2008
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£550m set aside to fund Darzi
The Department of Health has set aside £150m from next year's NHS budget and £400m in 2010-11 to pay for the commitments set out in health minister Lord Darzi's review. -
A look at the health service through the eyes of HSJ's bloggers
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Accounting rule changes to cost hospitals £146m
New accountancy rules will bring up to 16bn of extra debt onto the NHS balance sheet and cost hospitals 146m a year. -
Admissions up for treatable illnesses
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions are long-term health conditions that can often be managed with timely and effective treatment without hospitalisation. -
BBC to take a role in NHS Choices site
The BBC and Picker Institute are preparing to play a role in the running of the NHS Choices website, alongside outsourcing giant Capita. -
Data is critical to healthcare commissioning
HSJ is right that 'Data shortfalls hinder world class commissioning efforts'. While some in healthcare think the service should be immune to the normal pressures of business and operations, data is the key to almos -
Devolved power flows through Darzi's vision
The next stage review's warm reception was testament to the staff and patient engagement that informed it. Now, says NHS chief executive David Nicholson, that local ownership will energise its implementation -
DH announces new IT and information leads
The Department of Health has appointed the former IT chief for Cadbury Schweppes as the chief information officer for the NHS. Christine Connelly will lead the overall information strategy across the NHS. -
Dismissal and suspension of non-executive directors
New rules regarding the suspension and removal of non-executive directors have come into force. Mark Leach explains the legislation -
Do not marginalise drug addiction
Thank you HSJ for flagging up the 'neglect' of common mental health problems in specialist mental health trusts. -
Emma Dent on summer in the city
There are good things about summer in the city when half the populace have cleared off somewhere with less concrete. -
Getting the most from the NHS workforce
With more than 1.3 million members of staff, the NHS is the largest employer in Europe and has traditionally been regarded as a good place to work. But traditions can change and assets need to be looked after. Alastair Henderson explains that as the NHS moves into a new era, it is vital that its workforce feels valued, motivated and supported -
Holistic approach to sexual health
One element of GP involvement in sexual health services which I think has been missed from the report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health is their potential role in practice based commissioning. -
Housing support 'is cost effective'
Hot on the heels of the Darzi review, the Integrated Care Network has published a study that suggests health and social care investment in housing support is cost-effective and can transform lives. -
Jim Wardrope on emergency medicine myths
Lord Darzi's review of the NHS has yielded some good results for emergency medicine. However, there are a number of persistent myths about emergency care that could undermine the good work that has been done so far. -
Lessons learned from competition in the tender process
Bristol Community Health reflects on lessons learned during the tendering process for community health services -
London trusts join forces in research venture
University College London and four trusts in the capital are founding Europe's largest academic health science partnership. -
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on following Darzi
I have been hearing talk along the lines of 'Darzi will never take off'. Some of this is wishful thinking (fearful acute trust) or something like first night nerves (empowered but apprehensive PCT). -
Management must do more to ensure the NHS is free of racism
Apart from legal and moral obligations to its own staff, there is an even more powerful reason why the NHS needs to be sure it is free of discrimination. -
Managers losing sleep as 48-hour week nears
The clock is ticking on the European working time directive, with only a year until junior doctors’ hours are cut. Alison Moore asks if trusts are ready to make the change -
Managing stress in the NHS workforce
The best cure for work-related stress is for employees to take personal ownership of the problem, explains Robert Wilcox -
Media Watch: Is Johnson leaving the DH?
Alan Johnson's days at the Department of Health may be numbered. The Labour leadership crisis sparked by David Miliband and bored lobby correspondents has led to speculation the health secretary will be elevated either to the top job or deputy prime minister. -
Michael White on feminism
I couldn't help noticing in recent days how feminism kept popping up. As part of the wider debate about equality affecting class and poverty, gender, race, disability, it never goes away. -
Minority staff get worse deal on jobs, pay and grievances
Widespread disadvantages faced by black and minority ethnic NHS staff have been laid bare in a stark analysis of recruitment, bullying, grievance and disciplinary rates. -
Monitor steps in as trust losses soar
Monitor has exercised its intervention powers for the second time since its creation with a formal notice to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust. -
Much to learn about disability
The findings of the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities prove that people with a learning disability are being discriminated against in the -
Neil Goodwin on leadership lessons from David Lloyd George
I was delighted to see David Lloyd George listed as one of the most influential people in the history of the NHS - we can learn a lot from his leadership experience. -
NHS retirement: old enough to know better
The NHS Retirement Fellowship must attract younger members if it is to continue to represent ex-staff. Stuart Shepherd reports -
Nuffield hopes to avoid merger with health science plan
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre trust is seeking to stave off the threat of a merger by forming an academic health science centre with Oxford University. -
Palliative care: on their terms
Big Lottery funding means young people in West Sussex get holistic palliative care in an environment of their choice - even if that means down on the beach -
Peter Reader on integrating healthcare
Lord Darzi's next stage review contains the seeds of potentially the greatest revolution the NHS has seen since it was formed - a commitment to seek expressions of interest to run 'integrated care pilots'. -
Reconfiguration panel is left kicking its heels
The independent reconfiguration panel has been left with no referrals to examine after delivering three reports to the health secretary. -
Sandy Watson on the need for community engagement
Community engagement is a fundamental part of community planning. We must listen to what the public has to say about levels of service and then take action to improve performance. -
Simon Bird on whether clinicians are always the best leaders
It seems rather counter-cultural right now to question the drive for clinicians to take up leadership positions. However, the assumptions behind the drive, while compelling and applicable to some, should not be extrapolated across whole professions. -
Some are more equally paid than others
The Appeal Court's decision in the Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough borough councils equal pay case will prove a curate's egg for NHS trusts. At the heart of the decision are answers to questions about pay protection. This -
Steve Onyett on medical leadership
The Darzi review has shed new light on the challenge of letting go of central control. The idea that staff can be clinicians, partners and leaders is an engaging way of conveying that leadership needs to be widely dispersed. -
Sue Ashmore on breastfeeding and public health
To convey the public health benefits of breastfeeding, authors sometimes ask readers to imagine a miracle drug that prevents numerous childhood illnesses, has continued benefits into adulthood, is free to manufacture and readily available. -
Top-up review risks compromising NHS credibility
The government's review of the ban on 'top-up' payments for non-NHS treatments risks compromising the credibility of the NHS, public health chiefs are warning. -
Trusts warned C difficile probe decision sets no precedent
The decision not to launch a criminal investigation into deaths at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust will not set a precedent, NHS managers have been warned. -
Under the radar: BME mental health
Language barriers and stereotyping mean the mental health needs of black and minority ethnic older people are going unseen by commissioners. Kaye McIntosh reports
