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November 2010

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False economies and raised expectations

17-Jan-2011
Lack of clarity on GP role in public health

30-Nov-2010
Public health drive starts with NHS staff

30-Nov-2010
Public health faculty in resource warning

30-Nov-2010
Ex-RCGP chair to head new health inclusion board

30-Nov-2010
Few surprises in public health white paper

30-Nov-2010
Speech therapy saves NHS £13.3m a year

30-Nov-2010
NHS Haringey and Great Ormond Street end contract

30-Nov-2010
Increase in assaults on NHS workers

30-Nov-2010
Maternity units may close, despite pre election pledges

30-Nov-2010
London to fund development pot for pathfinders

30-Nov-2010
HSJ Awards 2010 Best Practice Report

30-Nov-2010
Businesspeople with medical degrees

30-Nov-2010
High impact actions for preventing pressure ulcers

30-Nov-2010
PCT grip on local priorities being 'eroded'

30-Nov-2010
PCT stroke spending at odds with outcomes

30-Nov-2010
Government to target teenage smoking

29-Nov-2010
Lung cancer rates for women soar

29-Nov-2010
Latest Dr Foster guide reveals hospital trusts with high death rates

29-Nov-2010
Learn to love learning and development

29-Nov-2010
Undercover boss

28-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs chief exec confirms departure next year

26-Nov-2010
FTs make pre-emptive defence against Hospital Guide findings

26-Nov-2010
Monitor flags finance problems at hospital foundation trust

26-Nov-2010
Exclusive: Hinchingbrooke winner critiques NHS procurement

26-Nov-2010
Sainsbury's 'to give GPs free room for surgeries'

26-Nov-2010
Ali Parsa: the NHS must learn to put quality ahead of price

26-Nov-2010
Improving quality and productivity in the NHS

26-Nov-2010
In the boardroom: tough talks as reality sinks in

26-Nov-2010
Passive smoking linked to 1% of deaths

26-Nov-2010
Temperature linked to sharp rises in admissions

26-Nov-2010
Patient data safety

25-Nov-2010
'Compassion doesn’t cost money'

25-Nov-2010
NHS London gives hundreds of staff at-risk notices

25-Nov-2010
Cuts 'provoke anxiety' among mental health patients

25-Nov-2010
10 high-impact changes to older people’s services

25-Nov-2010
Ambulance trusts in talks with NHS Direct over 111 provision

25 November 2010
BMA warns managers not to instruct consortia

25 November 2010
Britnell warns on NHS efficiency

25 November 2010
Competition panel bans exclusive provider deals

25 November 2010
Cumbria chief loses £1m pension appeal

25 November 2010
Data shows DH consultancy spending fall

25 November 2010
'Dorrell argues now for quiet pragmatism, for letting change evolve'

25 November 2010
GP incentive framework fails to slow admissions

25 November 2010
GPs and government battle for custody of white paper reforms

25 November 2010
Little potential for drugs waste

25 November 2010
Mark Britnell: quick fixes for making efficiency gains

25 November 2010
Media Watch: All eyes are on Lansley

25 November 2010
NHS Atlas of Variation highlights service value

25 November 2010
Open clinical data to public, urges Lansley adviser

25 November 2010
Parliament, prudence and productivity

25 November 2010
Pioneering 'NHS Atlas' reveals huge contrasts in care

25 November 2010
Public health body fears PCTs are ‘asset stripping’

25 November 2010
Smaller fines for mixed sex accommodation

25 November 2010
Southern PCTs least efficient at referral

25 November 2010
'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'

25 November 2010
UK heart surgery survival best in Europe

25-Nov-2010
Commissioning consortia told to buy in admin support

24-Nov-2010
Lansley moves to replace Monitor chair

24-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs advised to shed some services

24-Nov-2010
Hint at debt free start for commissioning consortia

24-Nov-2010
'Huge concerns' remain over Mid Staffs care

24-Nov-2010
Hospital cleanliness requires 'radical improvement'

24-Nov-2010
Wasted prescriptions cost £300m

24-Nov-2010
Don't lose sight of productivity during winter, warns Nicholson

24-Nov-2010
Royal College of GPs appoints new chief

24-Nov-2010
Practical tips to prepare for consortia commissioning

24-Nov-2010
Lansley denies reforms have caused PCT 'meltdown'

23-Nov-2010
PCTs need to up game on out of hours coding

23-Nov-2010
British Heart Foundation to answer questions in live chat session

23-Nov-2010
DH to appoint new Monitor chair

23-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs inquiry hears from Cure the NHS campaigner

23-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs doctors and nurses 'will not be named'

23-Nov-2010
Confed and RCGP to set up network for consortia

23-Nov-2010
PCT job losses 'will happen within a year' - Unison

23-Nov-2010
Book Review: Beyond Crisis

23-Nov-2010
Harsh financial lessons for the public sector

23-Nov-2010
Pete Mason on dealing with complaints

23-Nov-2010
Sue Slipman back in post

22-Nov-2010
Plain packaging for cigarettes planned

22-Nov-2010
Ed Miliband promises 'profound change'

22-Nov-2010
NHS Plus announces new director

22-Nov-2010
GPs 'face patient revolt over reform plans'

22-Nov-2010
Patients need single online NHS information hub, says Which?

22-Nov-2010
How to reduce COPD admissions with personal care plans

22-Nov-2010
Hospitals strike back first over social care cuts

21-Nov-2010
'Complaining about the NHS shouldn't be futile'

21-Nov-2010
Making savings through sackings - but who goes?

21-Nov-2010
Fundamentals of the NHS

21-Nov-2010
Fundamentals of the NHS - conference sessions

21-Nov-2010
Top staff to move into community services, says Nicholson

19-Nov-2010
Details of how DH has spent £1.85bn since election revealed

19-Nov-2010
Commissioning board chief exec not in post until October

19-Nov-2010
Women 'expect to retire later'

19-Nov-2010
RCM highlights maternity care variations

19-Nov-2010
Academics criticise the pace of change

19-Nov-2010
All NHS reconfigurations look set to progress despite moratorium

19-Nov-2010
Andrew Murrison on the military covenant

19-Nov-2010
Health insurance is a game of poker, against an expert

19-Nov-2010
Media Watch: targets and treatment

19-Nov-2010
NHS back office savings worth £1bn

19-Nov-2010
'NHS cuts will come off a far fatter bird'

19-Nov-2010
NHS leads access-to-care survey

19-Nov-2010
Our lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands

19-Nov-2010
Telehealth could save NHS £2bn

19-Nov-2010
Ex PCT chief exec loses £1m pension in tribunal case

18-Nov-2010
Forecasting methods in healthcare planning

18-Nov-2010
Boards urged to improve cost-saving measures

18 November 2010
Book Review: Managing Oneself

18 November 2010
Clinical leadership

18-Nov-2010
Cost savings and operational efficiency

18-Nov-2010
Data protection

18-Nov-2010
Dementia Advisor Service

18 November 2010
Electronic prescribing

18-Nov-2010
Future opportunities for PCTs

18-Nov-2010
GPs get a check-up of their own as a new era dawns

18 November 2010
Joint ventures in the health sector

18-Nov-2010
Migration caps may jeopardise service quality and safety

18-Nov-2010
Multi-source feedback

18-Nov-2010
NHS cancer spending queried by National Audit Office

18 November 2010
Primary care special report: happy hours

18 November 2010
The big four enablers that bring about big change

18 November 2010
What happened to courage?

18 November 2010
001 - Andrew Lansley

17-Nov-2010
002 - Oliver Letwin

17-Nov-2010
003 - Dr Hamish Meldrum

17-Nov-2010
004 - Sir David Nicholson

17-Nov-2010
006 - David Flory

17-Nov-2010
007 - Dame Barbara Hakin

17-Nov-2010
008 - Dr Laurence Buckman

17-Nov-2010
009 - David Behan

17-Nov-2010
010 - Mark Britnell

17-Nov-2010
011 - Dr Clare Gerada

17-Nov-2010
012 - Ian Dalton

17-Nov-2010
013 - Paul Dacre

17-Nov-2010
014 - Dame Sally Davies

17-Nov-2010
015 - Una O'Brien

17-Nov-2010
016 - Sean Worth

17-Nov-2010
017 - Sir Andrew Dillon

17-Nov-2010
018 - Sir Neil McKay

17-Nov-2010
019 - Earl Howe

17-Nov-2010
020 - Nick Timmins

17-Nov-2010
021 - Professor Steve Field

17-Nov-2010
022 - Dame Jo Williams

17-Nov-2010
023 - Peter Carter

17-Nov-2010
024 - Sir Bruce Keogh

17-Nov-2010
025 - Nigel Edwards

17-Nov-2010
026 - Mike Farrar

17-Nov-2010
027 - Dr Richard Vautrey

17-Nov-2010
028 - Lord Hutton

17-Nov-2010
029 - Steve Bundred

17-Nov-2010
030 - Professor David Kerr

17-Nov-2010
031 - Sir Robert Naylor

17-Nov-2010
032 - Bill Morgan

17-Nov-2010
033 - Ian Dodge

17-Nov-2010
034 - Sir Michael Rawlins

17-Nov-2010
036 - John Black

17-Nov-2010
037 - Ceri Thomas

17-Nov-2010
038 - John Healey

17-Nov-2010
039 - Jim Easton

17-Nov-2010
040 - Dame Carol Black

17-Nov-2010
041 - Paul Burstow

17-Nov-2010
042 - Stephen Hay

17-Nov-2010
043 - Bill McCarthy

17-Nov-2010
044 - Professor Steve Smith

17-Nov-2010
045 - Dr Mark Porter

17-Nov-2010
046 - Professor Mike Richards

17-Nov-2010
047 - Ruth Carnall

17-Nov-2010
048 - Anne Milton

17-Nov-2010
049 - Simon Burns

17-Nov-2010
050 - Dr Mike Dixon

17-Nov-2010
051 - Cynthia Bower

17-Nov-2010
052 - Richard Douglas

17-Nov-2010
053 - Nicolaus Henke

17-Nov-2010
054 - Professor John Appleby

17-Nov-2010
055 - Sophia Christie

17-Nov-2010
056 - Ben Dyson

17-Nov-2010
057 - Bob Ricketts

17-Nov-2010
058 - Dr Jonny Marshall

17-Nov-2010
059 - Mike Deegan

17-Nov-2010
060 - Dr James Kingsland

17-Nov-2010
061 - Professor Chris Ham

17-Nov-2010
062 - Dr Paul Zollinger-Read

17-Nov-2010
063 - Helen Bevan

17-Nov-2010
064 - Lord Carter

17-Nov-2010
065 - Helen Bailey

17-Nov-2010
066 - Christine Connelly

17-Nov-2010
067 - Clare Chapman

17-Nov-2010
068 - Sue Slipman

17-Nov-2010
069 - Dr Gareth Goodier

17-Nov-2010
070 - Andy McKeon

17-Nov-2010
071 - Sir Ian Carruthers

17-Nov-2010
072 - Dr Jennifer Dixon

17-Nov-2010
073 - Stuart Bell

17-Nov-2010
074 - Rob Whiteman

17-Nov-2010
075 - Paul Pindar

17-Nov-2010
076 - Robert Francis QC

17-Nov-2010
078 - Stephen Thornton

17-Nov-2010
079 - Sir Jonathan Michael

17-Nov-2010
080 - Patrick Geoghegan

17-Nov-2010
081 - Tim Straughan

17-Nov-2010
082 - Dr Ruth Hussey

17-Nov-2010
083 - Niall Dixon

17-Nov-2010
084 - Ben Page

17-Nov-2010
Can patient choice alone force the changes the service needs?

17-Nov-2010
HSJ100: Hakin and Gerada lead the rise of the clinicians

17-Nov-2010
HSJ100: Politicians and medics surge to power in the new world order

17-Nov-2010
Top 10 from politics

17-Nov-2010
Top 10 NHS chief executives

17-Nov-2010
Top 15 from interest groups

17-Nov-2010
Top 15 women

17-Nov-2010
Top 20 clinicians

17-Nov-2010
Top 20 mandarins

17-Nov-2010
Top 20 opinion formers

17-Nov-2010
077 - Bill Moyes

17-Nov-2010
Pharmacy regulation

17-Nov-2010
Lean in mental health

17-Nov-2010
CNO to step down in March

17-Nov-2010
Sturgeon stops NHS consultant awards

17-Nov-2010
iPhone app rates NHS services

17-Nov-2010
005 - Stephen Dorrell

17-Nov-2010
Stephen Dorrell: the ‘main game’ is delivering efficiency

17-Nov-2010
What Dorrell says matters, and his message to the NHS is clear

17-Nov-2010
Lancashire PCTs to review funding for 70 procedures

16-Nov-2010
North Tees staff offered voluntary redundancy

16-Nov-2010
PCT talent to be assigned to consortia

16-Nov-2010
Government to set out social care plans

16-Nov-2010
Children's hospital told to improve cleanliness

16-Nov-2010
Andrew Lansley defends NHS reforms

16-Nov-2010
Managers warn against cuts

16-Nov-2010
BMA calls for GP consortia elections

16-Nov-2010
DH claims retaining top managers is a priority

16-Nov-2010
GPs could be ordered to give evidence at Mid Staffs inquiry

16-Nov-2010
NHS workforce: working smart to improve productivity

16-Nov-2010
NHS Surrey stops funding for IVF and tattoo removal

15-Nov-2010
Trick or treat ...

15-Nov-2010
Report points to prison care lapses

15-Nov-2010
Quarter of cancers found during emergency care

15-Nov-2010
Let more people die at home, says end of life care report

15-Nov-2010
Public engagement: power to the people

15-Nov-2010
Using the QIPP collection on NHS Evidence

12-Nov-2010
How to establish your marketability

12-Nov-2010
'Major concern' over mental health hospital - CQC report

12-Nov-2010
Frequently Asked Questions

12-Nov-2010
Search NHS Evidence from hsj.co.uk

12-Nov-2010
UK women 'more likely to die of cancer'

12-Nov-2010
NHS targets skew surgery management, doctors warn

12-Nov-2010
Former RSM president condemns NHS reforms as 'anathema'

12-Nov-2010
'27,000 posts earmarked for cuts'

12-Nov-2010
Book Review: The Spirit Level

12-Nov-2010
NHS Professionals reports first modest profits

12-Nov-2010
DH confirms sale of Dr Foster Intelligence

11-Nov-2010
PCT fall guys

11-Nov-2010
Lansley promises 'robust' working time directive talks

11-Nov-2010
Former NHS chief attacks private health insurance 'lottery'

11-Nov-2010
£800m savings identified through better COPD care

11 November 2010
A guide to redesigning COPD care pathways

11 November 2010
An American Dream we should believe in

11 November 2010
COPD care: how to save millions

11 November 2010
Elderly miss out on post surgical care

11-Nov-2010
GP consortia: new roles and new rules

11 November 2010
Healey will ‘get stuck into’ broken promises on health

11 November 2010
How to unlock savings by redesigning COPD care pathways

11 November 2010
Lansley accelerates his plans as Labour’s opposition falters

11 November 2010
Leading lights to judge HSJ ideas awards

11 November 2010
Local NHS pay negotiations: beware raiders of the lost cause

11 November 2010
Michael White: health panel discussions

11 November 2010
Pharma lead issues warning on pricing

11 November 2010
Spending review roundtable: going back to the 1980s?

11 November 2010
The Mid Staffs inquiry and NHS redundancies

11 November 2010
The national public health service

11 November 2010
Training and development: special report

11 November 2010
Treading softly on cancer's dreams

11 November 2010
Turnaround: how transparency and openness helped rebuild one organisation

11 November 2010
Pledge for democratic input on commissioning 'watered down'

10-Nov-2010
Court rules automatic barring of nurses 'unlawful'

10-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs inquiry told of 'culture of fear'

10-Nov-2010
Nicholson letter suggests caution on scrapping PCTs

10-Nov-2010
£750m spent by NHS on locum doctors

10-Nov-2010
Secure mental health bed shortage criticised

10-Nov-2010
‘Immediate’ need for GP data system

10-Nov-2010
DH speeds up abolition of PCTs and SHAs

10-Nov-2010
NHS chiefs criticised for taking large pay rises

10-Nov-2010
SHA failing on stroke care

9-Nov-2010
Hakin warns against consortia using PCTs for commissioning support

9-Nov-2010
Olympics corporate sponsorship a 'challenge' to public health

9-Nov-2010
Patients Association rubbishes local invovement networks

9-Nov-2010
Managers and junior doctors to meet in Second Life

9-Nov-2010
Smoking cessation rates 'follow economy downwards'

9-Nov-2010
NHS Choices site 'saves millions'

9-Nov-2010
Call to slash Scotland's 22 health boards

9-Nov-2010
Ex-Mid Staffs chief executive 'may not appear'

9-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs inquiry 'will probe every nook and cranny'

8-Nov-2010
Protest delays Stafford Hospital public inquiry

8-Nov-2010
Arbinger Institute's Self Deception

8-Nov-2010
Government backtracks to hand maternity to GPs

8-Nov-2010
Strategic NHS planning 'may follow SHAs into oblivion'

8-Nov-2010
Budget squeeze 'putting NHS under severe pressure'

8-Nov-2010
Most councils 'expect social care service cuts'

8-Nov-2010
Labour challenges NHS funding claim

8-Nov-2010
Stafford Hospital public inquiry to begin

8-Nov-2010
The eight ways to save cash and improve care

8-Nov-2010
Endoscope 'disinfection failure' linked to nine NDM cases in UK

5-Nov-2010
MPs to investigate NHS complaints and legal costs

5-Nov-2010
A&E closure plan accelerated by six months

5-Nov-2010
New Birmingham hospital clears further hurdle and gains name

5-Nov-2010
Social care funding commission 'not set on insurance model'

5-Nov-2010
Lansley details social care funding plans

5-Nov-2010
Trust loses cancer screening service over biopsy failings

5-Nov-2010
MSPs split on waiting time law

5-Nov-2010
Report criticises junior doctors' workload

5-Nov-2010
A pinch of QIPP

5-Nov-2010
Report highlights out-of-date keyhole equipment

5-Nov-2010
Organ transplants hit record high

5-Nov-2010
Councils and NHS 'must cooperate on social care'

5-Nov-2010
'A good coach helps you to see the world as it really is'

5-Nov-2010
Book Review: The Managing Change Pocketbook

5-Nov-2010
Career transition: your five steps to the future

5-Nov-2010
Kent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend

4-Nov-2010
Achieving whole hospital change

4 November 2010
Any future for non-foundation trusts?

4 November 2010
Burstow's 'disappointment' over personal budgets

4-Nov-2010
College of Medicine denies link to homeopathy charity

4 November 2010
'Complaints about NICE on one page and useless, costly drugs on another'

4 November 2010
Dr Foster sticks with alternative death rate

4 November 2010
Government scraps adult social services performance assessment

4-Nov-2010
GP consortia accountability questioned

4 November 2010
GPs stung by maternity services rebuff

4 November 2010
Independent contractors and the NHS

4 November 2010
Information technology: reprogramming the IT culture of the NHS

4 November 2010
'Major NHS reforms are driven by the heart, not the calculator'

4 November 2010
Mental health hit by integration issues

4 November 2010
More Tribal health staff jobs now at risk

4 November 2010
New hospital death rates to be published in April

4 November 2010
Patients will move between commissioners, warns GP

4 November 2010
Pinning down patient opinion on mental healthcare

4 November 2010
Practice based commissioning academy gets rebranded

4 November 2010
Private sector gets 6pc of big ticket NHS spend

4 November 2010
The new mortality indicator suffers from mixed messages

4 November 2010
The NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts

4 November 2010
Top-up reduction proposal news 'not that new'

4 November 2010
Trust plans closure of seven wards

4 November 2010
Your Humble Servant: home front

4 November 2010
GP commissioner groups ‘will be size of PCTs’

3-Nov-2010
Voluntary MARS pay-off plan attracts very few takers

3-Nov-2010
Change, altruism and emotions

3-Nov-2010
Children's hospitals face 'stealth cuts' - Healey

3-Nov-2010
EU paves way for overseas treatment of rare diseases

3-Nov-2010
Concern over rate of PCT talent drain

2-Nov-2010
PCT defends contraceptive pill decision

2-Nov-2010
Pay GPs more in poorer areas - public accounts committee

2-Nov-2010
Legal limit on salt 'a cost-effective public health measure', study claims

2-Nov-2010
Children's hospital ordered to improve cleanliness

2-Nov-2010
Worcestershire chief exec to retire via MARS

1-Nov-2010
Probe into patients' drug overdose deaths

1-Nov-2010
Mid Staffs compensation bill revealed

1-Nov-2010
Foreign firms will 'swoop on NHS'

1-Nov-2010
Shadow health minister attacks children's tariff cut

1-Nov-2010

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