Health Service Journal
Daloni Carlisle
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Dial Q for quality: the programme helping healthcare leaders deliver change
17 May 2012
To improve quality leaders must focus on relationships that facilitate change. Daloni Carlisle looks at a project to develop the right skills. -
'Clinical engagement cannot be considered too expensive now'
10-May-2012
HSJ interviews Dr Richard Bohmer on the scale of challenge facing NHS organisations. -
Innovation through technology - an HSJ supplement
30-Apr-2012
The efficiency challenge means NHS organisations are having to find new ways of working. One area ripe for innovation is technology, and this valuable HSJ supplement looks at how trusts can utilise innovation in technology to full effect. -
How trusts can get value for money commissioning pathology services
22-Mar-2012
HSJ looks into the top issues facing CCGs in commissioning pathology services. -
'Our vital out of hours services are being sidelined'
22 March 2012
In the first of our new monthly leadership interviews, GP and out of hours pioneer Mark Reynolds outlines his concerns for the future of evening and weekend services to Daloni Carlisle. -
How trusts are getting smarter about business intelligence
15-Mar-2012
In our first monthly examination of the state of key healthcare support services, Daloni Carlisle finds many trusts are upgrading their business intelligence systems. -
Harnessing the benefits of wireless technology to improve healthcare systems
8-Mar-2012
In choosing a radio network to revolutionise its blood tracking system, one trust discovered the technology could be better used elsewhere, reports Daloni Carlisle. -
Accelerating learning: an HSJ training and development supplement
24-Feb-2012
Continuing professional development, e-learning and developing junior managers are the key themes in this HSJ special supplement on training and development. -
What's in your in-tray?
31-Jan-2012
2012 will be a massive year for the NHS, and workforce leaders will play a major role. As HSJ and Nursing Times launch the Healthcare 100 Masterclass, in association with NHS Employers, Daloni Carlisle takes an overview of the big-ticket items on the agenda of every HR manager. -
HSJ supplement - special technology report
2-Dec-2011
This HSJ special technology report looks at the benefit of handheld devices in the health service, and the problems facing telehealth as a solution to unplanned admissions. -
Putting patients first: an HSJ primary care supplement
25-Nov-2011
This week’s special HSJ supplement looks at how patients can benefit from being at the centre of primary care services. -
Why the NHS needs an information revolution to get into gear
3 November 2011
Some in the NHS and among its IT suppliers may simply shrug; others will be exasperated. But an announcement that the “information revolution” will be delayed now until “the winter” is not good news for anybody, writes Daloni Carlisle. -
Thirst for knowledge? Why the NHS should take clinical research seriously
20 October 2011
A survey by HSJ and the National Institute for Health Research set out to discover how seriously NHS organisations take clinical research. Daloni Carlisle studies the results. -
The toolkit hoping to revolutionise the use of patient discharge data
20-Sep-2011
Trusts have struggled with delivering patient discharge summaries rapidly to GPs. It is hoped that a new interactive toolkit will guide organisations through developing electronic systems that will overcome the problems, says Daloni Carlisle. -
HSJ special report: managers' fears over the £20bn 'Nicholson Challenge'
29-Jul-2011
An HSJ survey in conjunction with consultancy BDO has revealed managers’ anxieties over ‘imaginary’ savings, sustaining quality and engaging stakeholders. But, reports Daloni Carlisle, the commitment to innovation remains. -
Managing the new NHS - an HSJ supplement
30-Jun-2011
This bumper HSJ supplement looks at the myriad of areas where organisations will need a firm handle, to manage the transition to a new, post-reform NHS. -
Battling the elements: how one trust's fight for foundation status holds valuable lessons
28-Jun-2011
Despite winter snow and a flu outbreak, a high profile trust reorganisation was pushed through in order to start addressing debt problems, low performance and poor service design. Their commitment may result in the rescuing of the trust’s goal of foundation status, as Daloni Carlisle reports. -
Value in modernisation: an HSJ IT supplement
9-Jun-2011
HSJ’s latest information technology supplement looks at wireless technology for community healthcare workers, predictive models for patient admissions - and how the prison service is adapting an IT system used by GPs to share inmates’ medical details. -
How patient opinions are shaping services
17-May-2011
Patients can provide services with some illuminating views about safe practices, which may help to bring about real improvements. Daloni Carlisle reports -
Managing long-term conditions: an HSJ special report
28-Apr-2011
Alison Moore and Daloni Carlisle look at the increasing importance of improving care for patients long-term conditions in an HSJ special report. -
Fit for purpose: keeping vital employment support for patients with long-term conditions
28-Apr-2011
Work is of enormous benefit to many people with long-term conditions. But, writes Daloni Carlisle, it may soon be a lot harder for people to receive NHS support to stay in employment. -
Looking up: aspiring community foundation trusts hoping for a bright future
13-Apr-2011
Achieving foundation status is proving a popular target for many organisations ahead of the new NHS landscape. Three leaders of the first wave of aspiring community foundation trusts share their ambitions with Daloni Carlisle. -
A new era for IT? A special HSJ supplement
6-Apr-2011
The IT revolution has started. The way information is collected, and the technologies available to utilise it, is transforming previous approaches to healthcare. Now all clinicians have to do is embrace the change, and reap the rewards… -
The £80bn man: GPs get ready to hold the NHS budget
31-Mar-2011
HSJ’s special supplement on GP commissioning looks at the challenges facing commissioners in the new NHS. -
Public-private health services show bright promise in Spain
16-Feb-2011
Bupa’s Spanish subsidiary’s example of public-private health services is arousing interest in the UK, says Daloni Carlisle. -
The outstanding ideas that will transform healthcare
15-Dec-2010
HSJ and healthcare partnership Circle inaugurate a prize that will recognise the brightest and bravest thinking that seeks to influence health policy today. -
How to use predictive risk modelling in healthcare
25-May-2010
Mathematical modelling can help predict risk of hospital admission in a given population, writes Daloni Carlisle -
NHS Evidence round table: stick to the facts
13 May 2010
Using evidence to improve productivity and efficiency is not as straightforward as it might appear, as a round table of experts brought together to discuss the issue found. By Daloni Carlisle -
How NHS managers can build relationships with MPs
5-May-2010
MPs are a vital ally for any chief executive, so it is critical to build a healthy relationship. Daloni Carlisle looks at the benefits of giving local politicians the red carpet treatment -
NHS boards should welcome disability
15-Mar-2010
Increasing the representation of the disabled community on trust boards is being hindered by a lack of understanding and guidance, writes Daloni Carlisle -
NHS non-executive appointments: think outside the tick box
9-Mar-2010
A truly representative NHS needs more diversity among trusts’ non executive directors, reports Daloni Carlisle -
Integrated care: pride of the community
28-Aug-2009
District nurses embody the high quality workforce envisioned by Darzi, but the sector lacks the commitment to attract new nurses to this 150 year old service, says Daloni Carlisle -
How to ensure patients get the right care at the right time
20-Aug-2009
Deciding when to move patients off wards and into community care settings is strongly supported by an appropriateness of care tool. Daloni Carlisle explains -
How to maintain business as usual in a swine flu pandemic
11-Aug-2009
A swine flu outbreak could shrink workforces for weeks, but now health organisations can download a tool which helps them plan for business continuity. Daloni Carlisle explains -
One year on: Darzi's long and winding road
25 June 2009
Only 12 months into Lord Darzi’s 10-15 year vision, it is no surprise that little real progress has been seen. But the forthcoming public spending squeeze could be a large and unexpected obstacle in the road to improved quality, safety and innovation. -
Changing NHS end of life care for the better
19-Jun-2009
Most people say they would prefer to die at home but many do not as end of life care has traditionally been neglected. But it looks as if things are finally starting to change -
NHS turns to marketing to change public health attitudes
16-Apr-2009
Taking lessons from commercial advertising, PCTs can use social marketing to help get health messages across effectively to their local populations. By Daloni Carlisle -
NHS maternity care focuses on safer births
14-Apr-2009
Maternity services in the NHS are under pressure to improve safety and have new standards to meet. Daloni Carlisle reports -
How to use patient feedback to drive service improvement
6-Apr-2009
An information revolution is promised as patients vent their spleen via health websites. Daloni Carlisle finds out how you can use their opinions to improve services -
Deliver dignity with single sex wards
2 April 2009
With the health secretary effectively fining hospitals that are still using mixed sex wards from 2010, action is needed now to segregate patients says Daloni Carlisle -
NHS discharge planning: lost for words
26-Jan-2009
GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle -
Rethinking NHS out of hours care
1-Dec-2008
A fictitious 82-year-old who likes a drink has helped a PCT to rethink how it delivers out of hours care. Daloni Carlisle explains -
Organ donation: a bit of give and take
10-Nov-2008
The row over consent to organ donation is as old as transplantation itself. With a government task force due to make a final decision soon it has had to navigate some murky ethical waters, writes Daloni Carlisle -
Alan Johnson orders trusts: cut waits for speech therapy
23-Oct-2008
NHS organisations must work with allied health professionals to bring down 'unacceptable' waiting times for services such as speech therapy, health secretary Alan Johnson has told them. -
Angioplasty to be primary heart attack treatment
23-Oct-2008
NHS commissioners have been asked to develop a national network of cardiology services capable of delivering primary angioplasty as the main treatment for heart attacks. -
Media Watch: patient referrals
23-Oct-2008
A US pilot sent to shoot down a UFO on a dark night in East Anglia some 50 years ago only to find nothing but, well, dark night, recalled in Monday's Guardian that it 'was like being a one-legged man sent into an ass-kicking contest'. -
NHS absence from individual budget trials was 'missed opportunity'
23-Oct-2008
The failure to involve the NHS in individual budget pilots was a 'missed opportunity' and deeply regretted by the social services staff who took part. -
Publishing death rates: no dead certainties?
13-Oct-2008
There has been a degree of disquiet about publishing mortality rates. Supporters hoped this would lead to greater transparency, quality and patient choice - but has reality matched expectations? Daloni Carlisle reports -
Bruce Keogh outlines quality comparisons plan
2-Oct-2008
Plans to expose bad care and poor patient safety are to be taken forward with a consultation on the first NHS quality framework. -
Andrew Lansley backs value-based drug pricing
18-Sep-2008
Pharmaceutical companies should be paid according to the benefits that their drugs bring to patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said. -
NHS Litigation Authority to increase legal fees
18-Sep-2008
The NHS Litigation Authority is set to increase the fees for its clinical negligence scheme for trusts next year in the face of rising legal costs and compensation payouts. -
Patients to get final say on who sees NHS records
18-Sep-2008
NHS Connecting for Health has bowed to sustained pressure and changed its consent model for the summary care record. -
Stroke services improving - Royal College of Physicians
18-Sep-2008
Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown. The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds. -
Data-sharing doctors
15-Sep-2008
Daloni Carlisle finds out how Liverpool GPs are sharing data to keep patients out of hospital -
NHS in virtual reality: second sight
15-Sep-2008
The virtual world of Second Life has a health service, so you can now tour a cyber polyclinic. Daloni Carlisle explains -
Stroke services imporved
12-Sep-2008
Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown.The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds. -
Media Watch: NHS branding
11-Sep-2008
What price clarity? About £2m reckons London's Evening Standard. That is the price tag it totted up for primary care trusts abandoning their old titles in favour of the simpler 'NHS' brand. -
Mental health services boost
11-Sep-2008
Community mental health services have improved steadily over the last four years, but trusts must ensure gains are sustained when systems change next month, the Healthcare Commission has said. -
NHS Confederation delays chief executive interviews
11-Sep-2008
The NHS Confederation has delayed interviews for the post of chief executive after candidates dropped out at the last minute. -
PCT anger over spending study findings
11-Sep-2008
Primary care trusts have reacted angrily to a King's Fund report highlighting unexplained variations in spending on cancer, heart disease and mental health. -
Health 2.0 empowers plugged-in patients
17-Jul-2008
Consumers are well ahead of the health service in using the web, with patient opinion leaders emerging in many disease areas. Should the NHS engage the public in online dialogue, asks Daloni Carlisle -
Conservatives will support parts of Darzi review
3-Jul-2008
The Conservatives have welcomed parts of the Darzi review, saying they will support proposals that chime with their policies. -
Future NHS: the heat is on
3-Jul-2008
As the population changes, the web transforms our relationship with information, medicines emerge to suit individuals' genomes and the planet warms, the NHS faces momentous challenges. By Daloni Carlisle -
Lansley slams Darzi's 'bureaucratic' regional roles
3-Jul-2008
Greater influence proposed for strategic health authorities has raised fears about regionalising the NHS. -
Will Darzi bring about a renaissance in maternity services?
3-Jul-2008
A number of regional Darzi plans have promised midwife-led units and better information. Daloni Carlisle asks if this vision will become a reality -
Instant reactions to the Darzi review
30-Jun-2008
Organisations respond to Lord Darzi's review of the health service -
Darzi speak: the new jargon
30-Jun-2008
Health minister Lord Darzi's report introduces some new acronyms and jargon. Here's a brief guide -
Darzi rules out statutory regulation for managers
30-Jun-2008
Lord Darzi has ruled out developing a regulatory body equivalent to the General Medical Council for managers. -
Darzi launches 10-year vision for the NHS
30-Jun-2008
Health minister Lord Darzi has set out his vision for an NHS focused on quality of services, where patients' wishes come first and nurses and doctors have the freedom to offer the safest and most effective treatment. -
Darzi outlines draft NHS constitution
30-Jun-2008
Lord Darzi today set out the seven principles that underlie the NHS - along with the rights and responsibilities that accompany them. -
NHS60: A day in our life
30-Jun-2008
The daily life of an NHS manager has changed hugely since 1948, says Daloni Carlisle -
NHS60: A dramatic revolution
30-Jun-2008
Daloni Carlisle charts 60 years of the developing role of the NHS manager -
888 could be the new 999
19-Jun-2008
The NHS Confederation's ambulance network has called for an 888 number to make it easier for people to access appropriate care. -
BMA delivers anti-polyclinic petition to No 10
19-Jun-2008
The British Medical Association stepped up its opposition to polyclinics last week, when GPs delivered a 1.2-million-signature petition to 10 Downing Street and passed a series of no-confidence votes in the government and health minister Lord Darzi. -
Capital's PCTs give Darzi the thumbs up
19-Jun-2008
Polyclinics are likely to be up and running across London by April 2009 following primary care trusts' endorsement of proposals in Lord Darzi's Healthcare for London. -
Confed warns over challenges of innovation
19-Jun-2008
Developments in genetics, regenerative medicine, web technology, surgery and telehealth will challenge the NHS, according to an NHS Confederation report out this week. -
Media Watch: hygiene targets
19-Jun-2008
News from the Healthcare Commission that one in four hospitals is not hitting hygiene targets was about as welcome as a dose of MRSA. -
RCM and Unite threaten industrial action over pay
13-Jun-2008
Members of Unite and the Royal College of Midwives have overwhelmingly rejected the government’s 7.99 per cent three year pay deal.Nearly 95 per cent of 20,000 Unite health service members who voted were against accepting the deal, with three quarters of them wanting a strike ballot. -
NHS Choices launches personal service
13-Jun-2008
Over 10,000 people have signed up for NHS Choices’ personalised NHS service in the first month since its launch, storing their doctor’s details and subscribing to relevant health information. NHS Choices admits that the service is limited but will be expanded. Plans over the next two months include personal care pl -
Unite members reject pay deal and vote for strike ballot
12-Jun-2008
Unite’s health service members have overwhelmingly rejected the government’s 7.99 per cent three year pay deal.Nearly 95 per cent of 20,000 members who voted were against accepting the deal, with three quarters of them wanting a strike ballot. -
Independent sector still struggling on data
29-May-2008
The independent sector is still struggling to provide good quality data on its NHS activities, the NHS Information Centre has revealed. -
Johnson pledges better care for minority ethnic groups
29-May-2008
Black and minority ethnic people are not getting the primary healthcare they need, a government report has shown. -
Frank Dobson looks back as NHS turns 60
23-May-2008
Back in 1997 when the New Labour government was bright and shiny as a new penny, Frank Dobson, the MP for Holborn and St Pancras, was appointed health secretary. -
Darzi review: North East vows to improve public health
22-May-2008
NHS North East has pledged to renew its focus on public health and long-term conditions in its regional Darzi review. -
Career Path: leading change in the NHS
13-May-2008
Michael Scott's CV reads like a chronology of NHS reforms. So it is not surprising that his next move is into a London PCT. Here, he explains how his career took shape -
Did racism delay the SAS contract?
1-May-2008
Staff and associate specialist doctors are often said to lack a voice. Could this explain why they were the last group to sign their new contract, or is institutional racism to blame, asks Daloni Carlisle -
Do GPs with special interests have a future in the NHS?
7-Apr-2008
GPs with special interests fear being elbowed out as more care moves into primary settings, writes Daloni Carlisle -
Data deadline 'impossible', say IT directors
3-Apr-2008
NHS trusts faced an 'impossible task' securing all information that could identify patients by the start of this week, IT directors and data security specialists have told HSJ. -
Rival text services deny duplication
27-Mar-2008
NHS Choices and NHS Direct have both launched SMS text services to help patients find their nearest NHS service providers. -
Black calls on NHS to fight employee absence
20-Mar-2008
The national director for health and work has presented plans for the NHS to take on a wider role in promoting health and well-being at work. -
Healthcare Commission to probe Mid Staffs deaths
20-Mar-2008
The Healthcare Commission has launched an investigation into apparently high mortality rates among emergency admissions at the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust. -
NHS service providers can advertise under new code
20-Mar-2008
NHS trusts and independent providers of NHS services have the freedom from today to advertise direct to patients - but must abide by a new code of conduct. -
QRISK
19-Mar-2008
Framinghamis a town inMassachusetts, not far fromBoston. It’s predominantly white and middle class. It provided a refuge for families persecuted in theSalemwitches trials and it’s where the Battle Hymn of the Republic was first sung. -
DH under fire over clinical trials
13-Mar-2008
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has accused the Department of Health of inconsistency after it argued both for and against compelling drug companies to provide more information about clinical trials in a single day. -
FESC is thrown open without Treasury probe
13-Mar-2008
The Department of Health has extended its commissioning support programme without carrying out an expected value-for-money assessment of the scheme, HSJ has learned.Health secretary Alan Johnson announced last week that the framework for procuring external support for commissioners, FESC, is now open to all primary care trusts to buy in external support from the list of 14 approved private providers. -
New public involvement forums raise chorus of doubts
13-Mar-2008
Local involvement networks are due to go live in April but not all will be ready. Critics point to a rushed transition and a glaring lack of detail about how they will work. By Daloni Carlisle -
Web sees fall in calls to NHS Direct
13-Mar-2008
NHS Direct has experienced a significant and consistent drop in calls to its national 0845 number since 2006, HSJ can reveal. -
Doctor-manager relationships: the big fight
10-Mar-2008
NHS hospital power has long been in the hands of two sets of people: managers and clinicians, and tension has occasionally spilled out of the ring. In the latest article in our series on 60 years of the NHS, Daloni Carlisle looks at the dynamics -
How to pick a prescription
10-Mar-2008
Prescribing advisers help curb the national drugs spend and GPs value them too. Daloni Carlisle looks at their developing role -
NHS chaplaincy: a spirited row
3-Mar-2008
Chaplaincy is making its case to become a commissioned NHS service. Daloni Carlisle reports -
The information highway
7-Feb-2008
Two doctors are transforming the way in which the NHS collects and uses data, says Daloni Carlisle -
Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need
28-Jan-2008
To help simplify highly complex emergency care processes, one health and social care community has signed up to a whole-system change programme. By Daloni Carlisle -
Ash's payout unlikely to mean flood of claims
24-Jan-2008
Actor Leslie Ash's £5m compensation will not lead to a flood of successful complaints, the NHS Litigation Authority has underlined. -
Dr Foster web deal 'violated probity'
24-Jan-2008
The former chief of the NHS Information Centre has tried to overturn a confidentiality agreement preventing her from telling her version of why she left her post just days before a critical public accounts committee report. -
Generic drugs could save PCTs £200m
24-Jan-2008
Primary care trusts should do more to encourage GPs to prescribe cheaper generic drugs, the public accounts committee has said. -
Practices and PCTs at odds over budget survey claims
24-Jan-2008
Strategic health authorities have questioned whether a national survey of practice-based commissioning is valid. -
Welsh health boards' checks on GPs 'lack rigour'
24-Jan-2008
The general medical services contract has come under fire for failing to deliver value for money in Wales - as have local health boards for failing to hold GPs to account. -
Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
21-Jan-2008
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then -
BMA under fire over GP pay row 'scare tactics'
17-Jan-2008
Primary care trusts have rounded on the British Medical Association for drawing patients into its pay row. The accusation comes after the doctors' union distributed thousands of posters warning the public that the family doctor service is under threat. -
Media Watch: organ donors
17-Jan-2008
Prime minister Gordon Brown's Damascene conversion to presumed organ consent was, naturally, a hot topic for the press. -
Unions call for rethink on pay index measure
17-Jan-2008
NHS managers should receive a pay rise at least equal to the retail price index, Managers in Partnership told the NHS pay review body this week. -
Connecting for Health will be leaderless for months
20-Dec-2007
The Department of Health will not appoint a new chief for NHS Connecting for Health until spring 2008 at the earliest. -
Creating the perfect acute hospital
18-Dec-2007
Judges for the HSJ Award for acute healthcare organisation of the year said if you pulled together all the best practice around the country, you would have the perfect trust. So what would it look like, asks Daloni Carlisle -
Battle for £80m NHS Choices contract
13-Dec-2007
The computer company responsible for choose and book and a giant US healthcare organisation are among those poised to bid for the NHS Choices contract, HSJ can reveal. -
Media Watch: unhappy GPs
13-Dec-2007
There's no pleasing some people, as a poll of 100 GPs in the Daily Mail showed. Despite huge pay rises (heard about the new GP-class Mercedes Benz?) and shorter hours, they are still unhappy. -
Mental health dismissal was 'outrageous' says tribunal
13-Dec-2007
A mental health trust has been slammed for the way it handled the unlawful sacking of a psychiatrist with mental health problems. -
N Ireland change leader to take NHS London job
13-Dec-2007
The chief executive of Northern Ireland's shadow Health and Social Care Authority is to leave the NHS there for a job with NHS London. -
NHS Direct aims to be national foundation
13-Dec-2007
NHS Direct has launched a bid to become a foundation trust, potentially opening the doors to a new breed of national foundations. -
Polyclinic plans will face local opposition warns Darzi adviser
6-Dec-2007
Plans for new polyclinics will meet stiff local opposition, a primary care adviser to Lord Darzi's health service review has warned. -
Commissioning for public health - changing priorities
3-Dec-2007
Public health work has too often been isolated from other primary care trust functions. Now trusts in the North West are in the vanguard of efforts to ensure public health priorities drive commissioning, reports Daloni Carlisle -
Data protection: fresh security fears as information escapes
29-Nov-2007
While the public absorbs news of a breathtaking government failure to safeguard personal details, moves to centralise data on NHS patients continue apace. Daloni Carlisle asks what the health service can learn from the Revenue and Customs debacle -
Maternity choice is a reality, Healthcare Commission survey shows
29-Nov-2007
Choice in maternity services is now a reality for most expectant mothers, a survey by the Healthcare Commission has shown. -
Media Watch: £1.8bn underspend
29-Nov-2007
Much of the heavyweight reporting last week focused on HSJ's exclusive that the NHS is heading for a £1.8bn underspend. -
Norfolk vows to learn from ambulance backlog drama
29-Nov-2007
Health service and social care managers in Norfolk and Norwich have pledged to learn the lessons from an unexpected influx of patients last week which resulted in the area's biggest trust declaring a major incident alert. -
A guide to world class commissioning
26-Nov-2007
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations -
Maternity services and breastfeeding: a lot of bottle
12-Nov-2007
Unicef estimates four in 10 English maternity hospitals make no effort to encourage more mums to breastfeed. Daloni Carlisle asks what can be done to get them on board -
Website launch
9-Nov-2007
Many’s the GP that has lamented the invention of the internet as yet another terrified patient comes into the consulting room with a print off and an outlandish self-diagnosis. -
Health check ratings: primary care scores 'not like with like'
25-Oct-2007
The NHS Confederation has defended primary care trusts' apparently poor performance in the Healthcare Commission's annual health check, saying the results do not compare like with like. -
Local commissioning: DoH sets out skills PCTs will need
25-Oct-2007
The Department of Health has set out the skills primary care trusts will need to deliver its vision for world class commissioning in the health service. -
North Wales reconfiguration plans under scrutiny
25-Oct-2007
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has sent NHS managers back to the drawing board over controversial plans to reconfigure services in North Wales. -
Patient involvement: NHS organisations can host local networks
25-Oct-2007
The National Association of Patient Forums has failed in a last-ditch attempt to prevent NHS organisations being allowed to host the new local involvement networks. -
Thousands of doctors may be working illegally
25-Oct-2007
Human resources managers are becoming increasingly worried about the number of junior doctors still working without contracts. -
Scots NHS24
22-Oct-2007
The troubled Scottish telephone helpline NHS 24 has lost its third boss in three years, this time after less than six months in post. Sandy Forrest, a former deputy police constable, stepped down last week. A statement said he had joined NHS 24 with a number of external commitments and it had not proved possible to keep these up. A spokesman denied it was linked to recent criticism of NHS 24 over delays experienced ... -
Health check case study: Mid Cheshire Hospitals trust praises staff
18-Oct-2007
Mid Cheshire Hospitals trust has praised the efforts of staff in turning around a double 'weak' rating to a double 'good' assessment. -
Media Watch: Rose Gibb special
18-Oct-2007
There's nothing the media likes more than an easy target and this week's was Rose Gibb, formerly chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, aka 'the dirtiest hospital in England'. -
MRSA target has built-in 'wiggle room'
18-Oct-2007
The government has given trusts some 'wiggle room' to maintain the new MRSA public service agreement beyond the target date of 2008. -
PCTs will be empowered to set 'stretch' targets locally
18-Oct-2007
The government has spelled out its long-awaited move from central, top-down targets to local flexibility in the public service agreements that accompanied last week's comprehensive spending review. -
Cost of obesity equipment doubled
16-Oct-2007
Hospitals have doubled their spending on equipment for obese patients, new figures revealed by the Liberal Democrats have shown. Hospitals spent an average of£60,000 on measures to treat obese patients this year compared with£30,000 spent three years ago. This included specialist equipment such as beds and chairs as well as increasing staffing and undertaking pre-operative assessments. The number of obese adult patients admitted to hospital rose by over ... -
LMCs don't want polyclinics
16-Oct-2007
GPs are set to challenge Lord Darzi’s blueprint for the NHS inLondon.BMA local medical ... -
BMA dubious about screening every patient
11-Oct-2007
The British Medical Association has called for 'hard data' on the effectiveness of screening all hospital admissions for MRSA. -
NHS Choices: relaunching on a website near you soon
4-Oct-2007
The much-criticised NHS Choices website will relaunch this month and attempt to position itself as part of the personalised NHS. -
Foundation trust performance gets damning verdict
27-Sep-2007
A financial analysis by York University's Centre for Health Economics shows differences in financial performance between foundation trusts and non-foundation trusts did not change when they were created in 2004. It says: 'The foundation trust policy per se has not made a significant difference to their financial management.' -
Media Watch: for and against healthcare privatisation
27-Sep-2007
HSJ readers will be well aware of the three-month battle to get health secretary Alan Johnson off the fence and spelling out his policy on the private sector.This week that battle spilled off the pages of HSJ and the Financial Times and into The Times and The Guardian. A coincidence? We couldn't possibly comment. -
Outgoing deputy CMO says overseas applications are NHS's biggest problem
27-Sep-2007
The outgoing deputy chief medical officer has called on ministers to make a quick decision on what to do about overseas doctors applying for training posts in 2008. -
BMA U-turn on GP pay plan
20-Sep-2007
The British Medical Association has distanced itself from proposed changes to GPs' pay that it jointly produced. It has argued that too many GPs will lose out under the proposals. -
Executives face fresh scrutiny on hospital infection outbreaks
20-Sep-2007
The government wants a new power to place a legal requirement on NHS chief executives to report MRSA and Clostridium difficile outbreaks to the Health Protection Agency. -
New medics say abandon computerised job system
20-Sep-2007
A junior doctors' group has called for a return to a paper-based, local recruitment system to fill thousands of specialty training posts in 2008. -
Trading places
20-Sep-2007
After an exceptional week spent in each other's roles, the chief executives of a primary care trust and its main acute provider agree the idea works. Daloni Carlisle reports -
BMA coming back to table
17-Sep-2007
The British Medical Association’s GP committee looks set to come back to the negotiating table with NHS Employers. The two sides have met ahead of talks on the general medical services contract for 2008/09. The BMA pulled out of negotiations nine months ago and this year received a 0 per cent pay award. NHS Employers is currently gathering information from primary care trusts for its evidence to the Doctors and ... -
Poor access costs businesses
17-Sep-2007
Rigid and inflexible GP services are costing workers and businesses millions of pounds every year, according to the Confederation of British Industry.Restricted opening hours, difficulty in booking forward appointments and the limited range of services on offer cost the -
MTAS: after the storm
10-Sep-2007
The dust is still settling on the MTAS debacle, but the future of medical training is far from gloomy. Daloni Carlisle reports -
Commissioning: a problem shared
3-Sep-2007
Many reforms must rest on well-supported commissioners. Specialist services and agencies serving clusters of primary care trusts mean help is at hand, reports Daloni Carlisle -
Telehealth takes off
3-Sep-2007
Telehealth's time may finally have come, with three demonstrator sites spending £12m on the technology to help patients manage their conditions, writes Daloni Carlisle -
MPs hit out over Supply Chain secrecy
12-Jul-2007
NHS Supply Chain will not routinely publish the names of NHS clinicians who sit on its new product councils or details of their discussions, HSJ can reveal. -
PCT calls for GP referral competition to be shelved
12-Jul-2007
Plans to have the NHS and the private sector compete for GP referrals in north Cumbria should be shelved in favour of the two working together, its primary care trust has said. -
Providers criticise NHS Choices site
12-Jul-2007
The NHS Choices website is hampering users' ability to access the extended choice list, a network of independent providers has claimed. -
£35m ISTC deal scrapped
28-Jun-2007
The Department of Health has pulled the plug on one of the biggest wave-two independent sector treatment centre schemes. And there are rumours that more cancellations are on the way, with the entire surgical component at risk. -
PFI contracts: losing bidders could win back costs under EU law
31-May-2007
Trusts will have to compensate unsuccessful bidders for private finance initiative contracts under new EU regulations, the Department of Health has confirmed. -
SHAs' £117m training raid attacked
31-May-2007
Strategic health authorities are raiding over £117m from this year's training budgets, HSJ has learned. -
Emergency czar backs A&E closure
10-May-2007
National emergency access director Professor Sir George Alberti has backed controversial proposals to shut a north east London accident and emergency department. -
London chief defends Corrigan and Warner's appointments
22-Mar-2007
NHS London's interim chief executive has defended her new top team against claims they include political appointments meant to push through New Labour reforms. -
Out-of-hours firms under review
22-Mar-2007
Two out-of-hours providers have just a few weeks to prove their services are up to scratch, HSJ can reveal. -
PCTs struggle to support patients exercising choice
15-Mar-2007
Most primary care trusts are struggling to support patients who need help choosing a hospital, a survey by the King's Fund has found. -
Design for living
1-Jan-2007
The targets may have been narrowly missed, but meticulous planning of care pathways and a focus on sustainability are driving radical improvements to cancer treatment. And Daloni Carlisle says there's more to come -
GPs close to winning choice on IT
1-Jan-2007
Deal aims to end two-year dispute with doctors and boost clinical engagement -
London Provider Agency takes up scrutiny role
1-Jan-2007
NHS trusts and primary care trusts in NHS London are now answerable for their performance to the new London Provider Agency. -
Media Watch
1-Jan-2007
Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson. -
Mediawatch
1-Jan-2007
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New BMA chief tells Brown to rebuild relations with medics
1-Jan-2007
The new British Medical Association chairman has called for a 'fresh start' with prime minister Gordon Brown. -
Reconfiguration: Maidstone faces opposition to emergency surgery consultation
1-Jan-2007
A Kent trust's plan to centralise emergency orthopaedic and general surgery work is facing opposition from local people who fear they will have to make longer journeys to access urgent care. -
Exclusive: PCT fitness bill hits £6.5m
14-Dec-2006
The primary care trust fitness for purpose programme cost the Department of Health £6.5m, HSJhas learned. -
Push to publish clinical data
2-Nov-2006
The Department of Health is to look at ways of providing clinical outcome information for independent treatment centres. The government's response to the Commons health select committee's report on ITCs conceded that without robust information on clinical quality, patients cannot make an informed choice. -
NHS Employers: far fewer job cuts than first claimed
19-Oct-2006
The threat hanging over 20,000 NHS posts has amounted to fewer than 800 redundancies so far, NHS Employers has claimed. -
PCT chief questions value of competency assessments
5-Oct-2006
A primary care trust chief executive has given a 'warts and all' account of the fitness for purpose programme now about to launch into its third wave, demanding to know whether it is value for money. -
Appointments chief apologises to candidate accused of ignoring public
14-Sep-2006
A primary care trust chair who resigned over his treatment during the selection process has received an apology from the NHS Appointments Commission. -
Unsuccessful candidates for PCT chairs attack 'flawed' selection criteria and appointment process
14-Sep-2006
The national programme to appoint new chairs to all primary care trusts has been criticised as biased, uninformed and hurtful by a number of rejected candidates. -
Admin error blamed for children's services' poor rating
7-Sep-2006
A poorly performing trust identified in a Healthcare Commission review of children's services last week blamed an administrative error for its low score. -
New service to combat lack of NHS dentists
7-Sep-2006
A new dental access hotline has attracted 200 calls in its first week -
Government pinpoints foreign team hotspots despite consultant opposition
24-Oct-2002
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Overseas doctors plan may be sinking
26-Sep-2002
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Board approves changes as Lord Ewing speaks out
5-Mar-1998
A Scottish health board this week gave the go-ahead to controversial proposals for service changes over which a trust chair dramatically quit.
