All Health Service Journal articles in 11 December 2008
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News
Trusts urged to continue employment checks over Christmas
NHS trusts are being urged to ensure employment agencies are carrying out proper staff checks as they increase temporary cover over Christmas.
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News
Unite calls for more school nurses to fight child obesity
Trade union Unite is calling for the government to double the number of school nurses in the light of child obesity figures.
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News
Scotland may lift NHS top-up ban
Scotland is proposing to lift the ban on NHS patients topping up their care if they wish to pay privately for part of their treatment.
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News
Alan Johnson announces review of NHS dentistry
An independent review is to be conducted into NHS dentistry, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.The review comes amid reports of patchy access to dentistry in some parts of the country and declining rates of complex treatments.
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Comment
Sandy Watson on NHS performance management
NHS boards have very clear roles. They must ensure governance arrangements are sound, probity and propriety are to the fore, a strategic steer is given to the executive team and staff, the executives are held to account and supported, and there are clear and effective performance management mechanisms.
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Blogs
Healthcare = customer care
It is Saturday morning, I am on call and working at my desk on lingering clinical work after the ward round, awaiting blood results, blood pressure data, etc.
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Blogs
Weighing in on hospital scales
Lots to chew on of late. First I read my fellow blogger Inside Out's polemic about the grubby goings on in the world of hospital management.
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HSJ Partners
How Investors in People can help with trust mergers
The Calderdale and Huddersfield trust was formed in 2001 by the merger of Calderdale Healthcare trust and Huddersfield Healthcare Services trust. The trust's three hospitals, the Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax, the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital in Huddersfield, provide acute healthcare services to more than 420,000 people ...
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Leader
NHS surplus robbery risks a return to financial instability
This week the NHS was told part of the price it will have to pay for the collapse of the economy, as it bid a fond farewell to £1bn of its £1.8bn surplus.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant on NHS co-payments
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Co-payment cunning
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HSJ Partners
Increase your competitive edge with Investors in People
Investors in People is key to gaining a competitive edge and building your reputation, which is more important than ever given the current economic climate. Now is the time to sharpen your performance through happy productive people.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why end of life care should be recorded
Our work in end of life care suggests coding is being significantly under-recorded. This impacts on risk-adjusted mortality rates and issues relating to length of stay, which in turn has implications for organisations that compile data.
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HSJ Knowledge
Make tough patient choices a bit easier
Offering patients true choice in healthcare means giving them the right information at the right time and providing them with the skills and support to make informed decisions
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Comment
Sophia Christie on becoming a world class commissioner
Every primary care trust is participating in the first stage of the world class commissioning assurance process. World class commissioning is not the little brother of foundation trust development, or even Big Brother, although it can seem like that.
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Comment
Michael White on the NHS in recession
A rough old trade is politics, as most MPs can confirm. All the same, I felt a bit sorry for Andrew Lansley the other week when he was beaten up for saying 'on many counts recession can be good for us'.
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News
NHS operating framework: winners and losers
PCTs whose funding targets have increased most and least under the new formula
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News
Managers' responses to the NHS operating framework
Adrian Roberts, director of finance, Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals trust"If the new tariff does what it says on the tin, specialist and tertiary acutes will be protected by it which would help us, but the efficiency savings will be even harder for district general hospitals."Denise McLellan, director ...
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News
What the operating framework means for PCTs, providers and SHAs
PCTsContracts with PCT provider services by AprilPreparing for legal right to choiceUpgrading and increasing GP premisesReductions in mixed-sex accommodation"Pricing framework" for community servicesProvidersNew MRSA minimum standardPayments linked to qualityMeeting safeguarding children duties"Least restrictive environment possible" for mental healthcareSHAsProducing talent and leadership plansEnsuring providers use funds to improve trainingWorkforce plans for ...
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News
DH urges work on NHS informatics
NHS commissioners have been told to step up work on informatics as part of a renewed drive to boost information use in service redesign.
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News
PCTs get green light for CQUIN
Primary care trusts have the green light to link payment to local quality improvement goals with the unveiling of the methodology for the commissioning for quality and innovation framework (CQUIN).