All Health Service Journal articles in 15 November 2012 – Page 3
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News
Mike Farrar and Sir Andrew Cash set up consultancy supergroup
A five-person group including some of the most senior figures in the NHS have set up a management consultancy.
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Doubts raised over friends and family test
Statisticians have raised doubts about the validity of the nascent friends and family patient satisfaction test amid claims some trusts are “manipulating” their scores.
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Formal assembly for commissioners will avoid 'usual suspects'
A formal national group for commissioning leaders launched today will help prevent NHS policy being developed only by the “usual suspects”, officials have said.
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Schizophrenia care levels 'catastrophically short'
Care for people with schizophrenia and psychosis is falling “catastrophically short”, a report has found.
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HSJ Local
Anti-bug device hope for hospitals
A bug-busting “black box” is being developed that can rapidly identify the source of hospital infections and help staff to stop them spreading.
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Analysed: the friends and family test
HSJ Local Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing the NHS or major health economies. This week we examine the friends and family test being piloted by NHS Midlands and East.
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HSJ Knowledge
Antibiotic-resistant diseases are a potential crisis
A collective response is necessary to save lives
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Mandate requires board to guarantee CCG autonomy
Clinical commissioning groups have received a strengthened commitment from ministers to ensure their autonomy, and new powers to rate the performance of the NHS Commissioning Board.The board will be held to account on whether it achieves “the best health outcomes for patients by strengthening the local autonomy of CCGs”. The ...
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Mandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
The government has rejected the use of fixed national targets in its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
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HSJ Local
Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital to be renamed
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust is asking staff and its local communities to think of an “innovative” new name for its Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital.
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HSJ Local
South Warwickshire FT shifts intravenous therapy into the community
STRUCTURE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has launched a new intravenous therapy service, which will see patients treated in their own homes rather than in hospital.
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HSJ Local
Moorfields consultant awarded £1.7m by NIHR
CLINICAL RESEARCH: A consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has been awarded £1.7m by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme for glaucoma research.
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HSJ Local
Barts overpays staff by £1m
WORKFORCE: Barts and the London Trust made salary overpayments totalling nearly £1m in the last financial year, it can be revealed.
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Leader
Hunt loosens the reins of power
Hunt considers the mandate a test of the government’s commitment to loosening the reins
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Providers to be judged on integration and deaths from poor care
NHS organisations will be judged by whether patients report their care as well integrated, and the number of deaths in hospital attributable to poor care, under the mandate.
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Mandate: Mental health sector faces new challenges
Providers of NHS mental health services could be expected to meet new waiting time standards to drive improvements in access, according to the NHS mandate.
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NHS chiefs ordered to explain £3bn underspend
The NHS’s leadership has been ordered by the health select committee to explain which pots of money the £3bn Department of Health underspend handed back to the Treasury came from.
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No set targets in revised mandate
The government has rejected the use of set national targets in the final version of its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board, in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.