Health Service Journal
Charlotte Santry
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Exclusive: Data reveals wide variation in patient safety reporting
12-Mar-2009
Trusts where patient safety incidents are most likely to cause deaths, and those with the highest and lowest reporting rates, are revealed for the first time in an exclusive HSJ analysis. -
Trust chief 'should resign' over pay row, says union
12-Mar-2009
Trade unionists have called for the resignation of a chief executive at a trust that spent £32,000 fighting a doomed legal battle over pay. -
Managers welcome health boost for credit crunch victims
9-Mar-2009
Managers have welcomed new funding to support people experiencing mental health problems as a result of the credit crunch. -
Mental health trust may scan for weapons and drugs
5-Mar-2009
Airport style scanners for weapons and drugs could be installed in mental health wards, a leaked email seen by HSJ has revealed. -
Services missed opportunities to prevent killings
4-Mar-2009
A mental health patient who killed four people was let down by systemic failures, professional errors and a lack of resources, an investigation has found. -
NHS chiefs forced to defend Agenda for Change
3-Mar-2009
MPs have attacked health chiefs for failing to ensure Agenda for Change delivered promised gains in staff productivity. -
NHS told to learn from 'exemplary' military healthcare
2-Mar-2009
NHS accident and emergency services should take lessons from the 'exemplary' care provided to injured troops on the front line, the Healthcare Commission has urged.A Healthcare Commission report published today praises field hospitals for reaching casualties quickly, ensuring staff receive excellent training and using innovative approaches to treatment. -
Skills for Health urges NHS to increase apprenticeships
26-Feb-2009
Trusts are being urged to offer more apprenticeships to stem soaring unemployment despite new figures showing places have risen by 34 per cent in a year. -
Dementia strategy: high hopes but who will pay?
19-Feb-2009
The dementia strategy promises dedicated memory services in every town, but with only £150m over two years can primary care trusts afford the sophisticated teams this requires? Charlotte Santry reports -
Ruth Carnall rejects Stalinist jibe after chiefs resign
19-Feb-2009
An article in last week's HSJ following the resignation of two London trust chief executives gave 'false comfort' to 'people who seek to excuse poor performance rather than rise to the challenges', NHS London chief executive Ruth Carnall has said. -
Unions confront Care Quality Commission over jobs
19-Feb-2009
The Care Quality Commission is heading for clashes with unions before it has even launched.With just over a month until the commission absorbs the three health and social care watchdogs, around 300 staff are still in the dark about their fate. -
NHS trusts criticised over poor complaint handling
16-Feb-2009
Trusts are failing to respond to patient complaints adequately, a Healthcare Commission review has found.Almost half of the 8,949 complaints reviewed in the year up to July 2008 were upheld or sent back to the trust for further work. -
Acute chiefs' resignations not part of 'massive shakedown' in London
12-Feb-2009
The departure of four acute trust chief executives - two of them resignations amid performance concerns - does not amount to a 'massive shakedown' in London, according to NHS London deputy chief executive Anne Rainsberry. -
NHS managers voice worries over 'Stalinist' SHA tactics
12-Feb-2009
A ‘Stalinist’ culture is draining the NHS of experienced chief executives and making trusts insular and risk averse, senior leaders have told HSJ. -
Modest rise in GP extended hours
10-Feb-2009
There has been a modest increase in the number of GP practices offering extended opening hours, monthly figures show. -
Stroke awareness campaign to save lives and money
9-Feb-2009
A three year campaign to promote public awareness of stroke symptoms was launched by the Department of Health today. -
West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement
6-Feb-2009
West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations. -
Dementia strategy will pose workforce challenges
5-Feb-2009
Managers have welcomed long awaited government plans to transform dementia services but want more details on how they will be staffed and assessed. -
DH drops 'elitist' Top 250 leadership scheme
5-Feb-2009
Plans set out in the next stage review to invest in the top 250 NHS leaders have been scrapped amid charges of 'elitism'. -
Health watchdog handover is on 'red risk'
5-Feb-2009
Crucial staffing and financial decisions regarding the handover from the Healthcare Commission to the Care Quality Commission are still unresolved just two months before the new body takes over. -
NHS managers not reaping benefits of Agenda for Change
5-Feb-2009
Managers are still not reaping the benefits promised by Agenda for Change four years after it was introduced, according to the National Audit Office. -
Views sought on improving access to dentistry
4-Feb-2009
The team leading an independent probe into variations in access to NHS dentistry is calling for people to come forward with 'thoughts and questions' about the issue. -
Row brews as DH rejects blood clots measure
4-Feb-2009
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has written to health secretary Alan Johnson to protest after the Department of Health rejected proposals aimed at reducing deadly blood clots. -
Trust board steps down to make way for FT takeover
4-Feb-2009
The chair and entire non-executive team of a trust have stood down to make way for a takeover by a foundation trust.The Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership trust board took the decision after agreeing there was no prospect of achieving foundation trust status. -
Trusts 'could opt out of working time directive'
2-Feb-2009
The Department of Health has formally announced it wants trusts to be able to opt out of the European working time directive on behalf of junior doctors.
