All Health Service Journal articles in 11 February 2010 – Page 3

  • Andrew Lansley points to joint powers in public health
    News

    Andrew Lansley points to joint powers in public health

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley wants a Conservative government to keep a firm hand on public health. In a joint interview with HSJ and sister title Local Government Chronicle, he tells Rebecca Evans how local collaboration will be vital

  • Imperial readies for new foundation trust bid
    News

    Imperial readies for new foundation trust bid

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Imperial College Healthcare Trust is expected to begin the formal process of applying for foundation status in the spring.

  • Trusts must focus on 'near misses' to make savings
    News

    NHS boards must focus on 'near misses' to make savings

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Trust boards that focus on reducing “near misses”, rather than just individual serious adverse events, could make massive savings, according to an independent advisory group.

  • Nick Golding
    Comment

    Media Watch: cancer care pledge

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Brown’s pledge to provide free one-to-one homecare by specialist nurses for cancer patients divided the newspapers.

  • Community proposals may prompt 'musical chairs' timewasting
    News

    Community proposals may prompt 'musical chairs' timewasting

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The NHS risks wasting two years on the “sport of restructuring” instead of improving efficiency, senior figures have warned.

  • PCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation
    News

    PCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts face having to renegotiate contracts for out of hours provision.

  • News

    PCTs dispute management cost figures

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts have disputed government data on their administrative and management spending.

  • Investment in prevention 'crucial' during recession
    News

    Investment in prevention 'crucial' during recession

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The NHS must spend more on ill health prevention despite the public spending squeeze, according to a major report on health inequalities published today.

  • Community

    Lib Dem hedging

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    When is a political party health spokesman’s policy not his party’s policy? When it is Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb’s “Liberal blueprint for the NHS”, it seems.

  • Stephen Eames
    Comment

    Stephen Eames on NHS merger turkeys

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Most evidence of the impact of mergers is mixed and suggests benefits do not always materialise.

  • Feet first
    Community

    Feet first

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    If End Game readers are ever unfortunate enough to need an ambulance in the North West region, they can be assured the staff will be properly dressed from head to foot - as North West Ambulance Service has just decreed that ambulance crews cannot wear novelty socks.

  • Community

    A Wii fracture

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Buried next to a New England Journal of Medicine study about a technique for communicating with patients in a vegetative state, blah blah blah, is a far more significant development: scientists believe they have uncovered the first ever Wii Fit fracture.

  • Community

    LINks hitch

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Members of local involvement networks still struggling to get off the ground - nearly two years after they were meant to be created - will have welcomed the Department of Health’s publicity drive over the past two weeks. But there is one hitch, End Game understands.

  • Rebecca Evans
    Leader

    Senior NHS ranks have proved their value, how can they maintain it?

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    HSJ this week reveals that NHS trusts with the greatest increases in the number of managers are often those that are providing the best quality services.

  • NHS quality strongly linked to increases in managers
    News

    NHS quality strongly linked to increases in managers

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    NHS leaders have been told to consider how to reduce management costs without compromising services, after an HSJ analysis revealed a strong link between quality scores and increases in manager numbers.

  • Rebecca Evans
    Leader

    Patients shortchanged in local trade-off

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    It is ominous when the health secretary won’t deny that a political ideal has been a “damp squib” in practice. And so to foundation trusts’ local accountability, which Andy Burnham spoke to HSJ about in an exclusive interview this week.

  • Community

    Not too many tweets

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Keeping up to date with mental health policy is about as high on Joe Bloggs’ agenda as dusting the picture rails or learning Esperanto.

  • Michael White
    Comment

    Michael White: NHS spending pledges

    2010-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Which is the more alarming spectacle: David Cameron and George Osborne promising real term cuts in public expenditure (but not “swingeing” ones) in the coming Parliament? Or Gordon Brown behaving as if he can carry on making new spending pledges for the NHS?

  • Career feedback - developing self awareness
    HSJ Knowledge

    Career feedback - developing self awareness

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    If you are applying for posts do not be afraid to ask how you influenced the final decision - whether you get the job or not, says Diane Charnock

  • Andrew Lansley
    News

    Lansley urges OFT to investigate preferred provider case

    2010-03-05T10:42:00Z

    Andrew Lansley has written to the Office of Fair Trading, calling for an urgent investigation into the government’s “preferred provider” policy.