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October 2010

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Seven provider arms achieve NHS trust status

29-Oct-2010
CQC says improvements still needed at Mid Staffs

29-Oct-2010
Clock change 'would improve nation's health'

29-Oct-2010
Male life expectancy increases to 78

29-Oct-2010
NHS Commissioning Board to check foreign doctors' language skills

29-Oct-2010
Commissioning tools launched for neuro conditions and cardiac rehab

29-Oct-2010
GPs 'outraged' at central commissioning of maternity services

29-Oct-2010
Make the most of staff inductions

29-Oct-2010
Tough times are top times to brush up on your skills

29-Oct-2010
GP consortia pathfinder guidelines published

28-Oct-2010
Councils 'lagging' on social care personal budgets plan

28-Oct-2010
PCT chief exec steps down via MARS

28-Oct-2010
‘Labour MPs who call the Osborne way Thatcherism Mk II are not up to speed’

28 October 2010
Big Society: little guys vs big guns

28 October 2010
Book Review: The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working

28 October 2010
Capita eyes NHS quangos

28 October 2010
CRB vetting cost £70m last year

28 October 2010
DH accused of 'wishful thinking' on redundancy costs

28 October 2010
Expert predicts GP consortia failure

28 October 2010
GPs in the driving seat?

28 October 2010
'Health outcome bond' pilot to attempt hospital admissions cut

28 October 2010
Hospital trusts hit by £90m fall in earnings

28 October 2010
Lansley warns councils against ‘empire building’ in healthcare

28 October 2010
Managers divided over pensions changes

28 October 2010
More choice needed in end of life care, says King's fund report

28 October 2010
NHS Confederation and Slipman agree ‘way forward’

28 October 2010
NHS efficiency savings could get a rough ride

28 October 2010
NHS estate and hotel services heavily outsourced

28 October 2010
NHS management challenge stays much the same, rich or poor

28 October 2010
NHS referral management: how to get it right

28 October 2010
NHS underspends under the microscope

28 October 2010
No evidence GP consortia will be better than PCTs

28 October 2010
'No problems' at cardiac unit, inquest told

28 October 2010
Superheroes of the boardroom: how to create a top team

28 October 2010
Inquest into John Radcliffe baby death opens

27-Oct-2010
DH considers national pay increment freeze

27-Oct-2010
Outsourcing quotas to drive mixed health services provider market

27-Oct-2010
White paper fears will not lead to GP exodus, says BMA

27-Oct-2010
Mental health order use 'very worrying'

27-Oct-2010
Hospital concerns top ministers' letters

27-Oct-2010
Midlands trusts plan joint pathology service

27-Oct-2010
Yorkshire PCT announces 'unpalatable' measures to tackle overspend

26-Oct-2010
Stress blamed for high public sector absenteeism

26-Oct-2010
NHS Alliance offers free conference places for GPs and practice managers

26-Oct-2010
Better NHS management 'leads to better outcomes'

26-Oct-2010
NHS facing £6bn shortfall - Kings Fund

26-Oct-2010
Pledge to cut anti-psychotic drug use

26-Oct-2010
PCT halts funding for over 30 procedures to 'remain sustainable'

26-Oct-2010
Public health plans must deal with mental health, say psychiatrists

26-Oct-2010
Cost of pensions spirals by £6,000 a year

25-Oct-2010
We need to celebrate best practice in tough financial times

25-Oct-2010
Lansley defends reforms as survey reveals doubts

25-Oct-2010
Child alcohol admissions up by a third

25-Oct-2010
Assault prosecutions up five-fold since 2005

25-Oct-2010
Treasury confirms £5.5bn DH underspends are lost

22-Oct-2010
Public sector job losses to hit 750,000

22-Oct-2010
Fall in cervical cancer screening numbers

22-Oct-2010
Rise in annual new cancer cases

22-Oct-2010
Spending Review conspiracies

21-Oct-2010
Consortia management allowance will be in operating framework, says Nicholson

21-Oct-2010
Slow down will 'strangle' reforms, warns NAPC

21-Oct-2010
‘Part of “Waiting for Osborne” consisted of Lansley reassuring voters he has GP support’

21 October 2010
Bad referrals waste district nurses’ time

21 October 2010
Energy efficiency management

21 October 2010
Fair trading complaint raises healthcare competition warning

21 October 2010
Guide hopes to avoid death rate panic

21 October 2010
HEALTH SCREENING SERVICE

21 October 2010
HSJ Finance: helping you achieve NHS efficiency

21 October 2010
Improvement Foundation's former staff lose NHS screening contract

21 October 2010
Invitation to Tender

21 October 2010
'La La is throwing his limited political capital into reshuffling bureaucracy'

21 October 2010
Late payment rules eased

21 October 2010
Media Watch: digital drive and damaging cuts

21 October 2010
NHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs

21 October 2010
PCTs differ widely over antibiotics prescription

21 October 2010
SHAs in the dark on redundancy plans

21 October 2010
Single rooms no better say economists

21 October 2010
Trusts must offer choice of consultant led team from April

21 October 2010
'Who will own the NHS?'

21 October 2010
Budget increase will not be passed down to services, says King's Fund

20-Oct-2010
Nicholson explains spending review settlement

20-Oct-2010
Chancellor issues jobs and pensions threat

20-Oct-2010
The spending review document in full

20-Oct-2010
Confed responds to spending review

20-Oct-2010
Government drops one-on-one cancer nurse plan

20-Oct-2010
NHS capital spending to fall by 17 per cent

20-Oct-2010
Treasury raids NHS capital budget to fund social care

20-Oct-2010
Minimal funding increase for NHS in spending review

20-Oct-2010
Castles in the air

20-Oct-2010
'What will a real increase in the NHS budget actually mean?'

20-Oct-2010
We need NHS managers to tackle the first financial crisis since 1987

20-Oct-2010
Public sector managers unprepared for spending cuts

20-Oct-2010
Avoidable errors to blame for wrong organ removals

20-Oct-2010
Britnell sets up commissioning academy with NAPC

20-Oct-2010
Renegotiating NHS contracts: how to avoid the pitfalls

20-Oct-2010
Self-funding leadership development

20-Oct-2010
Risk management will be flash point for PCTs and GP consortia

20-Oct-2010
An action plan for busting NHS deficits

20-Oct-2010
'Gypsies and Travellers are the most disadvantaged minority within our society'

20-Oct-2010
MP calls for NAO investigation into 'misguided' halting of reconfiguration plans

19-Oct-2010
Commissioning will cost 'less than 5 per cent'

19-Oct-2010
MPs express consortia governance fears

19-Oct-2010
Make-up of DH revealed

19-Oct-2010
Private companies gear up to take stake in stalled community hospitals

19-Oct-2010
NHS London volunteers external oversight in 'Lansley tests' over reconfiguration plans

19-Oct-2010
Leicester PCTs to make five senior posts redundant in merger plan

19-Oct-2010
RCGP to launch commissioning support centre

19-Oct-2010
GP takes over at North East Lincs

19-Oct-2010
Scottish boards told to slash manager posts

19-Oct-2010
Public sector morale 'at all time low'

19-Oct-2010
NHS 'must listen harder to complaints'

19-Oct-2010
Patients to have choice of where to die - Lansley

19-Oct-2010
Ward closed after C diff deaths

19-Oct-2010
London trusts top of patient complaints list

19-Oct-2010
Integrated healthcare: removing the policy barriers

19-Oct-2010
BMA should 'rethink' private sector opposition

19-Oct-2010
'It won’t be lack of money that does for the public sector'

19-Oct-2010
Shadow health team confirmed

18-Oct-2010
NHS IT supplier agrees contract 'efficiencies'

18-Oct-2010
Maternity ward sealed off over skin infection

18-Oct-2010
NHS not safe from cuts, Confed warns

18-Oct-2010
Scotland to press ahead with free prescriptions

18-Oct-2010
Call for action on alcohol pricing

18-Oct-2010
Book Review: The Strengths Book

18-Oct-2010
Healthcare 100: Happy staff are best for patients

18-Oct-2010
Make the most of your transferable skills

18-Oct-2010
Public finance adviser joins Mid Staffs inquiry

15-Oct-2010
Higher compensation payouts rejected

15-Oct-2010
Reckitt Benckiser fined for anti-competitive activity

15-Oct-2010
Community organising, leading change and shifting power: why the NHS needs to build weak ties NOW

14-Oct-2010
Vetting and barring scheme judgement awaited

14-Oct-2010
Judge rejects union call for white paper judicial review

14-Oct-2010
Quango cuts confirmed

14-Oct-2010
NHS management history: milestones

14-Oct-2010
Chief exec of second Essex PCT cluster named

14-Oct-2010
Test your knowledge of NHS management

14-Oct-2010
Salisbury chief seconded to DH provider role

14-Oct-2010
King's Fund launches debate on NHS leadership

14-Oct-2010
‘Nearly £2bn could be saved’ in NHS property sell-offs

14 October 2010
Charities demand a bigger role in public health

14 October 2010
Competition could change the face of healthcare

14 October 2010
Cuts, car parks and care records

14 October 2010
DH turns a blind eye to working time rules

14 October 2010
Follow the leaders – or waste billions of pounds every year

14 October 2010
NHS Choices in the Big Society

14-Oct-2010
NHS estate services costs vary widely

14 October 2010
NHS improves financial grip

14 October 2010
Patient care record plan is scaled back

14 October 2010
Poor quality work still gets bonus

14-Oct-2010
Regional variations in NHS productivity revealed

14 October 2010
Rise in mental health detentions

14 October 2010
SHAs contrast sharply on community proposals

14 October 2010
Take the lead in preventing ill health

14 October 2010
Talk therapy offer ‘patchy’

14 October 2010
Two ambulance trusts get all-clear from Lansley

14 October 2010
What was he thinking?

14 October 2010
Unison's white paper legal challenge heard in the High Court

13-Oct-2010
Hospital parking charges attacked

13-Oct-2010
College to lobby for inclusion of secondary care in consortia

13-Oct-2010
Budget cuts 'will damage staff health'

13-Oct-2010
Eating disorders in children rise by 11%

13-Oct-2010
Alliance warns that consortia must be 'coordinated, not directed'

13-Oct-2010
A social plan to ease NHS savings pain

13-Oct-2010
Career transition as a path to reform

13-Oct-2010
Removing policy barriers to integrated healthcare

13-Oct-2010
Referral pathways

12-Oct-2010
Legal consortium panels

12-Oct-2010
Government outlines greater protection for NHS whistleblowers

12-Oct-2010
Foundation Trust Network chair statement in defense of Sue Slipman

12-Oct-2010
FTN chair defends suspended Slipman

12-Oct-2010
Essex PCT plans to shed over 220 staff in £5.7m savings bid

12-Oct-2010
'Real terms' funding increases likely to mean 1.9%, DH reveals

12-Oct-2010
NHS joins Black History month celebration

12-Oct-2010
Shadow health secretary wastes no time in attacking NHS cuts

12-Oct-2010
Private tests 'need monitoring'

12-Oct-2010
Drug treatment referrals criticised

12-Oct-2010
'Unfair' final salary pensions set to go

12-Oct-2010
Claire Rayner dies with warning on NHS reform

12-Oct-2010
Lansley plays down 'scale and pace' concerns over GP commissioning

12-Oct-2010
Single patient rooms

12-Oct-2010
The power of checklists in the NHS

12-Oct-2010
The role of clinical commissioning in public health

12-Oct-2010
Transition plan 'risky' says Confed

12-Oct-2010
Foundation Trust Network considers Confed split as director suspended

11-Oct-2010
Future RCGP leader issues warning on 'market expansion'

11-Oct-2010
Centrally held patient records 'could save lives'

11-Oct-2010
NHS advised on nutrition for older people

11-Oct-2010
Software error blamed for false obesity letters

11-Oct-2010
Reform timetable ambitious but achievable - Lansley

11-Oct-2010
Lansley confirms summary care record roll-out will proceed

11-Oct-2010
Climate change is 'cholera of our time', says public health expert

11-Oct-2010
Book Review: Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

11-Oct-2010
How the white paper will affect NHS estates

11-Oct-2010
Smoking cessation

11-Oct-2010
So what’s wrong with wearing a dress to work?

11-Oct-2010
Making the most of clinical leaders

10-Oct-2010
Healthcare for people with learning disabilities

9-Oct-2010
Patient access to medical records

9-Oct-2010
Lansley warned on 'disenfranchised' salaried GPs

8-Oct-2010
Breast cancer screening not meeting digital switchover target

8-Oct-2010
Shadow health secretary named

8-Oct-2010
GPs sceptical reforms will benefit patients

8-Oct-2010
Call for public to improve their own health

8-Oct-2010
Registered manager missing from 1,000 care homes

8-Oct-2010
Caesarean rates 'vary widely' in UK

8-Oct-2010
Shortage of surgical training posts criticised

8-Oct-2010
Appraising social value

8-Oct-2010
How to fail without really trying

8-Oct-2010
Community nurses have 'serious concerns' about GP commissioning

7-Oct-2010
Lord Hutton calls for end to final salary pensions

7-Oct-2010
King's Fund warns about 'scale and pace' of reforms

7-Oct-2010
'All a bit anodyne these days, what with partnership this and partnership that'

7 October 2010
Banding appeals

7-Oct-2010
Big income drop likely for children’s hospitals

7 October 2010
Expressions of Interest Occupational Health Service

7 October 2010
GP consortium pioneer says PCTs are vital safety net

7 October 2010
'Lansley needs to make the intellectual case for PCT upheaval'

7 October 2010
Mark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?

7 October 2010
Media Watch: the Conservative Party conference

7 October 2010
PCT functions 'need clarification'

7 October 2010
PCTs make slow progress with QIPP

7 October 2010
The coalition’s honeymoon is in danger of being called off

7 October 2010
The right way to form GP consortia

7 October 2010
Thousands of hospital ward transfers are unnecessary

7 October 2010
Transform healthcare and win £20,000

7 October 2010
Transforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms

7 October 2010
Your idea could redefine the health service

7 October 2010
If you can, do: if you can't....

6-Oct-2010
NHS managers hit back at reforms

6-Oct-2010
NHS budget ringfence 'irresponsible'

6-Oct-2010
Consortia may boost GP data

6-Oct-2010
Out of hours performance variation to be made public

6-Oct-2010
Staff safety warning over cuts

6-Oct-2010
'Managers need more than a short course to lead a diverse workforce'

6-Oct-2010
How to make your workforce more cost effective

6-Oct-2010
Key NHS providers face loans limits

6-Oct-2010
Thorny NHS reform issues unresolved

6-Oct-2010
NHS must not 'slide back' during transition period, warn pharmacists

5-Oct-2010
Midwives warn increasing competition in NHS could destabilise services

5-Oct-2010
Lansley gives PCTs more cash but defends their abolition

5-Oct-2010
Councils call for free rein on public health spending

5-Oct-2010
West Middlesex trust appoints chair

5-Oct-2010
Psychiatrists back removal of private income cap for FTs

5-Oct-2010
Mental health costs 'soar to £105bn'

5-Oct-2010
Milton rejects claim that NHS reforms are 'weak link' in government policy

5-Oct-2010
Charity calls for social care overhaul

5-Oct-2010
Patients should be told the cost of their treatment, says Tory MP

5-Oct-2010
£70m pledged to post-discharge care

5-Oct-2010
Lansley warns Tories to brace for unpopularity

5-Oct-2010
A telemedicine solution to stroke care

5-Oct-2010
Value for money commissioning in mental health

5-Oct-2010
Value for money in pathology commissioning

5-Oct-2010
Union launches anti-white paper campaign

4-Oct-2010
NHS London to speed up management cost reductions

4-Oct-2010
GPs have significant concerns around 'scale, pace and cost' of NHS reforms

4-Oct-2010
Interim managers

4-Oct-2010
Physiotherapists warn white paper will fragment services

4-Oct-2010
GP commissioners must not ignore specialist advice, surgeons warn

4-Oct-2010
Trusts should be paid to employ overseas doctors

4-Oct-2010
Crisis management, disequilibrium and thermostats

4-Oct-2010
BP, the NHS and Failure

4-Oct-2010
New DH permanent secretary announced

4-Oct-2010
Health students' doubts over NHS reforms

4-Oct-2010
Hospital trust rejects Bible ban

4-Oct-2010
Scottish NHS facing £5m tax bill

4-Oct-2010
'Self-serving' trusts damaging patient care

4-Oct-2010
PM announces new measures to tackle cancer

4-Oct-2010
Book Review: Screw it, let's do it

4-Oct-2010
How to retain talented staff

4-Oct-2010
NHS staff criticise white paper over lack detail and pace of change

4-Oct-2010
Stock control

4-Oct-2010
Team survival in troubled times

4-Oct-2010
Smoking cessation

3-Oct-2010
Open innovation in healthcare

2-Oct-2010
South Essex PCTs confirm creation of cluster

1-Oct-2010
Andy Burnham's letter to Andrew Lansley

1-Oct-2010
Lost hospital data draws security sanction

1-Oct-2010
Edwina Hart cleared of misleading Welsh Assembly

1-Oct-2010
Government urged to plan for ageing population

1-Oct-2010
Sign up for HSJ's GP commissioning newsletter

1-Oct-2010
HSJ readers invited to hear Lansley speak

1-Oct-2010
Competition will 'overshadow' white paper benefits - BMA

1-Oct-2010
Burnham tells Lansley to back down on health reforms

1-Oct-2010
Lean strategy in the NHS

1-Oct-2010
Transforming community services: where are we now?

1-Oct-2010
Unison given date for NHS judicial review hearing

1-Oct-2010

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