All Health Service Journal articles in 10 December 2009 – Page 3
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News
Gas explosion at Manchester hospital
Two gas explosions have ripped through the site of the former Withington Hospital in Greater Manchester.
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Gordon Brown moves to curb public sector pay
Moves to curb a “culture of excess” in public sector pay have been unveiled by Gordon Brown as part of a bid to slash £12bn from spending over the next four years.
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Call to cut a million public sector jobs
A million public sector jobs, including frontline roles in the NHS and the police, must be axed if the government is to cut its deficit, a think tank has said today.
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HSJ exclusive: NHS to take responsibility for social care
The NHS is to be given far greater responsibility for social care under plans expected to be announced by the government in coming days, HSJ understands.
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Commissioners must be more 'ambitious' in CQUIN schemes
Commissioners will be told to be more ambitious and avoid duplication when setting their commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) framework goals for next year.
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NHS 'not helped' by confused messages on future of PCTs
Confused messages from the Department of Health over the future of community services configuration are “not helping the NHS”, the Primary Care Trust Network has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS managers on a mission in Sandhurst manoeuvres
The foundation trust regulator asked Sandhurst Academy to give managers an insight into the military ‘chain of understanding’. Helen Mooney reports for duty
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Information
Ian Dalton's swine flu update - vaccine uptake
In his weekly update for HSJ and Nursing Times, national director for NHS flu resilience Ian Dalton discusses the latest developments in UK swine flu preparations
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NHS IT programme to be scaled back in pre-Budget report
The multi-billion pound NHS IT programme is to be dramatically scaled back in the pre-Budget report.
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Call for continued NHS investment
The Royal College of Nursing is calling for the government to maintain investment levels in the NHS to keep standards of patient care from dropping.
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Mental health co-ordinators to be based in jobcentres
Mental health co-ordinators are to be based in jobcentres under plans for a “radical overhaul” of support for people with mental health conditions.
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Hospital criticised ahead of Baby P report
Baby Peter could have been saved if managers at a hospital where he was treated had listened to fears raised by senior doctors more than a year before the toddler’s death, a consultant paediatrician has claimed.
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Comment
How to develop professional networks
Many who feel their career or performance is faltering are sometimes wary of networking. For the more introverted, networking is daunting. For others it conjures up images of currying favour along corridors of power for personal gain and so is unacceptable.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to defeat procrastination at work
Putting things off is a bad habit - and fundamental to breaking it are recognising the stages of how we act on problems and working out what’s stopping progress
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HSJ Knowledge
A costing system where every patient counts
Patient-level information and costing collects data in a way that engages clinicians in improving efficiency. Louise Ross and Jennifer Butcher explain
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Lesbians 'suffer healthcare bias'
Lesbians experience varying degrees of bias from their doctors, according to a study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care.
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NICE issues guide on commissioning high quality services
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published a new guide on commissioning NHS services.
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University Hospitals of Leicester names new finance chief
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has appointed Andrew Seddon as its new finance director.
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Paramedic union anger at stab vest move
A paramedics’ union has accused NHS ambulance service bosses of being “in denial” over the level of danger crews face on the job after one service in Essex decided to phase out the use of stab vests.
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NHS North East backs £464m hospital build plan
A strategic health authority has backed a new £464m hospital planned for Teesside.
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