All Health Service Journal articles in 13 December 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving mental health procurement
Two mental health projects in the East Midlands are improving outcomes and cutting costs through better procurement practices.
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News
Nicholson's operating framework gets mixed review
Managers have given this year's NHS operating framework a mixed response, welcoming its emphasis on improved commissioning, while expressing concern that the national priorities are too prescriptive.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS procurement - the rules on tendering
Rules requiring trusts to tender health services contracts can be difficult to interpret, particularly for primary care trusts. Anne Crofts explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Public health campaigns: spreading the word about COPD
How do you encourage a tight-knit community to stop doing the one thing they already know is damaging their health but that they doubt they can live without? Cheshire and Merseyside Partnership for Health did just that with its 'catch your breath' campaign
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News
One year on - has Gerry Robinson fixed the NHS?
Has management guru Sir Gerry Robinson fixed the NHS, at least within the confines of Rotherham General Hospital, a year after dropping in with a TV crew for a management makeover show? Unsurprisingly, the answer is no.
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Comment
Sir Liam's patient safety spotlight shines on PCTs
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson is pushing primary care trusts to put his crusade on patient safety at the centre of their work (for more details, click here).
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement: reducing infection
As NHS managers, we must reduce the harm caused by avoidable infections.
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News
In this week's HSJ
NewsFoundation trusts seeking to maximise income from private patients have been dealt a blow this week by legal actions involving their regulator Monitor and the Charity Commission.Hospitals say they have been hit by a 'frightening' shortage of locum staff because of changes to junior doctors' training.Reducing health inequalities, cutting healthcare-acquired ...
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Comment
Michael White on healthcare rationing
In the week health ministers launched new initiatives on both cancer and stroke, backbench MP Dr Richard Taylor coincidentally staged a Commons adjournment debate on rationing in the NHS.
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News
GPs told to be local leaders
The new chair of the Royal College of GPs has criticised family doctors for failing to 'stand up and shout' about public health issues.
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Community
Media Watch: unhappy GPs
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.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on registering with a GP
Last time I invited responses to two questions: how to choose a GP and why bother now that direct access services are so good?
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News
Private sector reassured over future in NHS
Private healthcare providers have been 'reassured' of their future role in the NHS after health secretary Alan Johnson pledged to rectify an IT problem that has prevented patients knowing about their right to choose private care.
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Comment
Private sector sceptics take on foundation freedom-fighters
The deal the government carved out with Labour backbenchers to get the foundation trust legislation through Parliament has precipitated a battle between the trusts and Unison over the limits of their freedoms (for more background, click here).
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News
Health inequalities focus for new national strategy
Reducing health inequalities, cutting healthcare-acquired infections and planning for emergencies will be among the priorities for the health service in 2008.
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HSJ Knowledge
Managing patients' expectations of the NHS
Media storms over postcode lotteries reveal the extraordinarily high standards demanded by the public. Jessica Allen argues that reform of PCTs is the best way to steer expectations and drive up service quality
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News
Race law warning from DoH
The NHS's most senior equality official has warned that the Department of Health could stop working with organisations that do not fulfil their obligations under race equality legislation.
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News
Mental health dismissal was 'outrageous' says tribunal
A mental health trust has been slammed for the way it handled the unlawful sacking of a psychiatrist with mental health problems.
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Comment
Emma Dent on the Manchester doughnut
Aha, a response to my last column about the state of Manchester. Architect, researcher and consultant Wayne Ruga, who has been working with Salford primary care trust on developing a 'human-centred culture', writes to congratulate me on writing the 'unspeakable'.
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News
Hidden PFI debts to be declared
New guidance on accounting rules for the private finance initiative could cost the NHS up to £342m a year.