All Health Service Journal articles in 12 February 2009 – Page 2
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality information assurance: an understanding of governance, risk and compliance
Lord Darzi’s review and world class commissioning promise to bring positive changes to patient experience and drive up the quality of services. However, the sharing of information these agendas promote demands that quality information assurance is now a top priority in your trust.
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News
20 trusts set to miss foundation trust deadline
More than 20 hospital and mental health trusts have been warned they are entering an ‘end game’ because they will not be ready to become foundation trusts before December 2010.Those unable to meet the government’s deadline face either radical restructuring or becoming part of a ‘shopping list’ for existing foundation ...
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News
Rose Gibb and the £250k question
When Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust directors decided to arrange a pay-off for Rose Gibb they did not realise they were walking into a legal minefield. What lessons does the case hold? Alison Moore reports
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News
Acute chiefs' resignations not part of 'massive shakedown' in London
The departure of four acute trust chief executives - two of them resignations amid performance concerns - does not amount to a 'massive shakedown' in London, according to NHS London deputy chief executive Anne Rainsberry.
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News
SHAs push on A&E targets
NHS chief executives across the country have been under increasing pressure to meet the four hour accident and emergency waiting time target this winter.
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News
Little sympathy for trusts struggling with A&E targets
Hospital trusts are expected to inform the regional NHS almost immediately of problems in accident and emergency departments.
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News
NHS medics and managers agree over training gap
Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.
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News
Scottish NHS boards see below-inflation funding rises
NHS boards in Scotland will get an increase of 2.6 per cent in the coming financial year - below the current inflation rate of 3 per cent.
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News
NHS trusts and commissioners at odds over tariff benefits
Hospital trusts and commissioners are disputing the impact of the new payment by results tariff on their income.
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HSJ Knowledge
Referrals between NHS consultants are up
The issue of consultant to consultant referrals is a source of dispute between commissioners and acute care providers.
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News
DH promises to pay Maidstone legal bill
The Department of Health has agreed to underwrite the massive legal bill Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust could face if Rose Gibb wins her controversial court case.
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News
Foundation trusts call for private patient income flexibility
The Foundation Trust Network has called for a public debate on changing the law to allow foundations to take on more private patient work.
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News
Public health: a slim chance of healthier lives
The Change4Life initiative to combat child obesity is the latest in a long history of public strategies and, says Niall Dickson, success will rely on it grabbing public imagination
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News
Trusts must collect patient reported data or face fines
Hospital trusts must prepare to ask thousands of patients to fill in questionnaires about their health before surgery - and face fines if not enough do so.
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News
Decompression sickness fraudsters go to jail
Two men have been jailed for their parts in a £250,000 scam to defraud the NHS by billing for bogus decompression sickness treatments.
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Comment
Jon Restell on taking notice of European health directives
All my life I have failed to show any serious interest in the workings of the European Union.
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News
Michael White on gambling with public health
Health ministers have taken two steps along familiar paths in the past few days, one to promote smoke-free conditions for pregnant women, the other to create an 'alcohol-free childhood'.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: Guantanamo on Thames
‘Most of the trusts were flashing red with down arrows and the SHA had created what looked like a share price for each, all of them tanking’
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News
NHS managers voice worries over 'Stalinist' SHA tactics
A ‘Stalinist’ culture is draining the NHS of experienced chief executives and making trusts insular and risk averse, senior leaders have told HSJ.
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Community
Media Watch: maternity services
The Conservatives have been keeping up the pressure over maternity services - with stories in both broadsheets and tabloids saying the NHS has been forced to turn away women in labour.
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