All Health Service Journal articles in 13 September 2007 – Page 2
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News
BUPA expected to provide 'external support' for PCT
Hillingdon primary care trust is set to name BUPA as the company it plans to use to help it commission services under the Department of Health's external commissioner list, HSJ has learned.
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Senior exodus as board seeks new status
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health trust has seen several senior staff leave ahead of a reorganisation of its executive board as it prepares for its application to become a foundation trust.
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Public expecting too much as spending cuts approach
Local managers need more accountability and stronger support from politicians when making tough decisions, a think tank has claimed.
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'Albatross' private finance charges slated in research
Trusts with large private finance initiative projects are facing continued pressure to cut services and jobs to meet payments, two leading researchers have claimed.
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Bradshaw calls for action to fix primary care democratic deficit
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has raised the prospect of a shake-up of local governance after he issued a warning that there is a 'problem' with primary care trusts' accountability to their patients.
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HSJ Knowledge
Acute trusts September 2007
Confidence in the positive effect of choice continues its steady rise, according to the latest Barometer survey of acute trust chief executives.
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Comment
Stephen Hocking on the drugs debate
'Unfortunately, economics dictates that with finite financial resources, not every drug can be purchased and paid for by a publicly funded health service'
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Nuffield trust gets interim director
Dr Neil Goodwin CBE has been appointed as interim director of the Nuffield Trust and will work to develop the future strategy of the charity's programme of research.
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HSJ Knowledge
Raj Persaud on trade-offs in healthcare
The concept of 'trade-offs' is well understood in health – benefits of drugs traded against side-effects, for example, but many find it harder to juggle the trade-offs of change, says Raj Persaud.At the heart of the clinical practice of medicine is the idea of a ‘trade-off’ – we prescribe a ...
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Roadmap
Junior health minister Lord Darzi's polyclinics have received yet more criticism from clinicians as the Royal College of GPs has published its vision of the future.The Roadmap joins the British Medical Association and the NHS Alliance in criticising the term polyclinics and suggests an alternative model.The report says: 'We caution ...
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Maggie Rae
The head of the local delivery and health inequalities unit has become the latest senior Department of Health employee to return to the frontline.Maggie Rae has become the director of health at Wiltshire primary care trust.Ms Rae was seconded to the DoH for two years from the National Institute for ...
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Early wins, early lessons
Practice based commissioning has received a vote of confidence in the NHS Alliance report Practice based commissioning: early wins, early lessons released today.The report looks in depth at instances of PBC working well and saving money across the country.Chairman of the Alliance Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to ...
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wanless comments
Stephen Thornton, chief executive, Health Foundation:The recommendations are all very good and all very worthy but are about what government should do to the health service.They are not asking how you bring about the culture change needed to get clinicians thinking about how they can improve the quality and safety ...
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Practice based commissioning
Practice based commissioning has received a vote of confidence in the NHS Alliance report Early wins, early lessons, released today.Chairman of the Alliance Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned PBC would ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Enthusiasm for equality
A recent study has shown that although measures are in place to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexuality, it is still being demonstrated throughout the NHS. Stuart Shepherd reports on why many are choosing to hide their sexual orientation from colleagues
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on being a good chief executive
'What is the role of a chief executive? I constantly ask myself this and I firmly believe the NHS has got it wrong.'
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HSJ Knowledge
Pioneer teams are overcoming anger
A programme for aggression management in secure psychiatric settings trials the latest international research, reports Louise Hunt
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HSJ Knowledge
MTAS: after the storm
The dust is still settling on the MTAS debacle, but the future of medical training is far from gloomy. Daloni Carlisle reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health special feature: inequality street
Despite a concerted effort to clean up its act, race still plays a significant part in the quality of mental healthcare that patients receive, writes Mark Gould
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health special feature: discharging responsibility
Mental health providers are working to tackle the problems of over-occupancy, length of stay and over-representation of black and minority ethnic groups. But are they doing enough, asks Stuart Shepherd
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