All Health Service Journal articles in 13 September 2012 – Page 5
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HSJ KnowledgeReducing the burden on hospital services
The coming together of community services and the movement of cash flow is the key
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting end of life care right
With no second chances, it will impact not only on the patient, but on those around them
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HSJ KnowledgeServe up a change that lasts for life
Combined weight therapy and medication is cutting demand for surgery
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping an index of conscientiousness
This index could help to promote patient safety and trust in the medical profession
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NewsCSUs urged to delay private sector deals
Leading market figures now believe it is unlikely commissioning support units will enter long-term partnerships with private sector firms before 2014.
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CommentTalking dirty on healthcare waste
Gary Cohen is on a mission to make the health sector live up to its responsibilities
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SupplementsDispensing wisdom: a special report on outsourcing
This special report explores why trusts are - or are not - outsourcing outpatient dispensing
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SupplementsDoctors' orders: a special report on revalidation
This special report on revalidation looks at why revalidation is a key plank in efforts to build quality, how its usefulness can be established, and how it can help doctors to be better leaders
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HSJ KnowledgeNew duties - are you ready?
Are we prepared for the implications of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 for governors?
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Comment'Justifying health priorities will not be easy'
CCGs face tough decisions to prioiritise the right patients
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CommentMichael White: Hunt's ignorance
Jeremy Hunt’s known positions on health policy are best described as incoherent
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CommentNoel Plumridge: welcome to unpopularity
This is the world of James Reilly, former GP and now Ireland’s health minister
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HSJ KnowledgePulling the plug on PCTs
PCTs’ intellectual property rights will need to be transferred to an appropriate home
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NewsRCP: Hospitals are overcrowded and short-staffed
Hospitals are so full that elderly patients are being discharged in the middle of the night and routine blood tests are being conducted at 3am, the Royal College of Physicians has warned.
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NewsRegional pay plans short-sighted - BMA
A group of NHS trusts has been accused of making “short-sighted” plans to introduce regional pay and conditions which would “undermine the national ethos of the NHS”.
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NewsStop gag on NHS whitleblowers - MP
NHS lawyers should not be able to gag whistleblowers from revealing damning information in the public interest, an MP has said.
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NewsFinal sign-off for CCG authorisation to be put back a month
Clinical commissioning groups will be authorised a month later than previously planned, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced.
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HSJ Local
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust invited merger bids from 39 trusts
STRUCTURE: Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Trust issued an invitation to 39 providers for expressions of interest in merging with it, board papers reveal.