All Health Service Journal articles in 13 November 2008 – Page 2
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Comment
Sir Ian Kennedy on the future of the annual health check
The Act of Parliament that established the Healthcare Commission required us to assess on an annual basis the performance of every NHS organisation, taking account of the standards issued by the Department of Health. Out of this requirement grew the annual health check.
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News
Healthcare Commission longed for government's embrace
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has sent a frank message to staff revealing how the government failed to embrace the regulator and left it 'handicapped'.
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News
Chemotherapy may be overused
Chemotherapy is being provided to cancer patients near the end of their life in cases where it is inappropriate, research has suggested.
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News
Baby dies after NHS misses eight chances to stop abuse
NHS professionals had eight opportunities in just one month to spot that a 17-month-old baby was being seriously abused.
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News
Department of Health and Capita sign website contract
The Department of Health and Capita have finally signed a contract that will see the outsourcing specialists run the 'front door' to the NHS through the website www.nhs.uk.
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News
Racism in the NHS
Your report on racism in the NHS provides powerful statistical support to the view that racism is not simply about recruitment.
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News
NHS Direct chief executive to step down
NHS Direct chief executive Matt Tee is leaving the service to take up the most senior communications role in the civil service.
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Blogs
The NHS rhetoric is the reality
Can you get to see your GP within 48 hours? Seems like the apparatchiks at the DOH and the piety at the HCC beg to differ about question itself, let alone the answer.
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News
Proposed supertrust could start life £200m in the red
A new supertrust could provide health services throughout much of south east London from next April - but would start life with a debt of more than £200m.
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News
£400m spending limit forced on NHS
NHS organisations will be permitted to spend just 400m of their 1.7bn surplus next financial year and will not get the full increase in resources pledged to them by the Treasury.
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News
Spectre of past mistakes looms over GP access push
The £250m programme to provide new GP-led health centres in every local area risks repeating the mistakes made when independent sector treatment centres were set up, academics have warned.
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News
Changes to the Mental Health Act
Major changes to the Mental Health Act came into effect last week. The new legislation is a milestone in the reform of mental healthcare.
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HSJ Knowledge
Same-day care sees admissions level off
This article examines what has been happening over the last five years with emergency admissions to acute hospitals - probably the biggest driver of all healthcare spend.
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News
How are NHS top-ups going to affect your services?
The announcement that patients may top up their NHS care with unapproved treatments means managers face overseeing segregation of patients and tough commissioning decisions. Helen Crump reports
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News
Alan Johnson warns NHS not to slash training
Slashing training budgets in reaction to the credit crunch would be a 'false economy', health secretary Alan Johnson has told trusts.
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Comment
Michael White on NHS bad news
Some politicians suspected Alan Johnson deliberately chose to make his announcement on top-ups on the same day as Barack Obama's election to the US presidency in the hope that he could 'bury bad news.'
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News
Statistics lay bare inequalities in mental healthcare
The most comprehensive set of data ever collated on hospital and community mental health services has revealed stark variations in the levels of care being offered to different sections of the population.
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News
Inspectors called in at Birmingham Children's Hospital
The Healthcare Commission is to investigate concerns about care and management at Birmingham Children's Hospital foundation trust.
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News
Scotland's health scrutiny bodies prepare for merger
Scotland is to have a 'super scrutiny' body, merging three organisations into one as part of the Scottish government's cull on quangos.
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News
Governance body slams NHS records sift
The health and social care information watchdog has raised concerns that the smallprint in the draft NHS constitution could undermine patient confidentiality.
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