All Health Service Journal articles in 7 October 2010
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NewsShadow health secretary named
The new shadow health secretary is John Healey, former housing minister and member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet.
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Community nurses have 'serious concerns' about GP commissioning
The move to GP commissioning could exclude other clinicians from decision making while increased competition in the NHS will lead to cost cutting, reductions in quality and greater inequalities, according to the Queen’s Nursing Institute.
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NewsLord Hutton calls for end to final salary pensions
Public sector final salary pension schemes should eventually be scrapped and staff contributions should increase in the short term, according to an independent commission led by Lord Hutton.
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NewsPCTs make slow progress with QIPP
Primary care trusts are already falling behind on their quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) plans, analysis by HSJ has found.
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NewsThousands of hospital ward transfers are unnecessary
Hundreds of thousands of patients are moved between hospital wards with no clinical justification, risking the spread of infection.
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LeaderYour idea could redefine the health service
What is the big idea that will guide and inform the development of the NHS throughout the next decade?
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NewsGP consortium pioneer says PCTs are vital safety net
Handing commissioning control to clinicians but maintaining primary care trusts to support them would be the “dream ticket”, rather than abolition, according to a chief executive pioneering the idea.
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CommentThe right way to form GP consortia
GP commissioning consortia will not be created by guidance notes from the Department of Health. Nor will they be formed by primary care trusts and strategic health authorities suggesting the necessary population size for efficient commissioning.
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CommentMedia Watch: the Conservative Party conference
Unsurprisingly the health coverage this week was largely concerned with the blue half of the government ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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NewsPCT functions 'need clarification'
The Primary Care Trust Network has urged the Department of Health to quickly sort out which PCT statutory functions can be stopped in order to reduce pressure on managers during the transition to GP consortia.
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Comment'Lansley needs to make the intellectual case for PCT upheaval'
Who caught my attention at the Tory conference this year? Not Andrew Lansley, I think. He had his £164m cancer screening announcement pinched by David Cameron (a PM’s prerogative) and also made a rather lacklustre speech of his own from the platform.
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CommentMark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?
Australian interest in foundation trusts has thrown their achievements into stark relief
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NewsBig income drop likely for children’s hospitals
Specialist children’s hospitals could see a significant drop in their income under changes to the national tariff.
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LeaderThe coalition’s honeymoon is in danger of being called off
Momentum is a priceless asset in public sector reform. New governments tend to have momentum - commonly called “the honeymoon period.”
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NewsTransforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
Primary care trusts are edging closer to determining the future of their provider arms.
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Comment'All a bit anodyne these days, what with partnership this and partnership that'
Lansley the Leveller should be saying his prayers, according to the joshing banter and bonhomie around our Joint Consultative Committee table.
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HSJ PartnersTransform healthcare and win £20,000
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NewsNHS managers hit back at reforms
The reforms to the NHS are “too fast and furious”, Managers in Partnership has warned.
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NewsNHS budget ringfence 'irresponsible'
It would be “irresponsible” to promise the NHS’s budget can be ringfenced, Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has said.
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NewsConsortia may boost GP data
GP consortia would have more incentive to collect data on patient comorbidities, the Nuffield Trust suggests.