All Health Service Journal articles in 15 September 2011 – Page 5
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HSJ Local
Kent and Medway Partnership ‘mostly comparable’ with other trusts
PERFORMANCE: Results from the 2011 community mental health survey show services provided by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust “are mostly comparable with the rest of the country”.
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NewsDH paid £8m to exit private contract following suspension of services
The Department of Health paid £8m to end early a contract with a private health provider whose services had twice been suspended.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a landmark treatment programme is reducing alcohol related admissions
An alcohol treatment programme in Derby is helping to reduce admissions related to drink, which could prove highly useful across the NHS after the annual number of alcohol related admissions passed 1 million for the first time last May.
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CommentWill Lansley be red-faced after rubber-stamped reconfiguration in London?
By the time you read this there may have been news on a most contentious reconfiguration in the capital – namely whether the health secretary has found a way to rubber-stamp the downgrading of Chase Farm without losing face (which he has, just about - ed.).
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CommentDalton's plate is piled high ahead of return to NHS North of England
Ian Dalton – who in title has been NHS North East chief executive since 2007 – has for some time spent much of his effort on national roles, having first been made national director for the response to swine flu more than two years ago.
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NewsExclusive: ambulance service investigates link between software failure and patient death
A heart attack victim died during a software failure that saw an ambulance service have to revert back to a paper-and-pen system, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCCP backs commissioners in care home procurement row
The Cooperation and Competition Panel has ruled against care home associations in two regions after they claimed procurement rules and prices for continuing healthcare were too low.
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News
Fun run field hospital blown into quarry
A marquee set up to house a field hospital was blown into a quarry by high winds last week.
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NewsHealth and Wellbeing Boards 'should drive integration'
Health and wellbeing boards should include the integration of commissioning in their “key success criteria”, according to a new guide published by the Good Governance Institute.
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CommentMichael White: in reality, even a centralised model devolves power
Much fuss was made of Nadine Dorries’ bid to tighten abortion counselling procedures as the Health and Social Care Bill finally left the Commons.
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CommentMedia Watch: trusts condemned over money spent on recruiting foreign staff
Hospital managers came under fire this week after the Sunday Telegraph revealed some trusts had spent thousands of pounds on trips to recruit foreign doctors and nurses while allegedly laying off their own staff.
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News
Practice 'federations' frustrated by reform - Gerada
Moves to create groups of GP practices which can share and expand services have been frustrated by the commissioning reforms, Clare Gerada said.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to utilise online feedback to improve services and increase patient involvement
One of the goals of the NHS Future Forum was to put accountability and patient involvement at the forefront of how hospitals and trusts operate. Patient Opinion founder Paul Hodgkin looks at how online technology can quickly and effectively make this a reality.
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HSJ KnowledgeKeeping patient information safe when responding to FOI requests
With health organisations legally obliged to provide data to persons requesting information under the Freedom of Information act, one case has helped set out how trusts can deal with these requests on the most sensitive of issues. Eleanor Tunnicliffe and Jessica Major explain.
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting the health service skill mix right - now, and in the future
Despite job cuts and high unemployment, health employers are currently finding it difficult to fill vacancies. But this is due to the availability of - or lack of - the right skills, something that is only going to become more important to the health service, says Simon Hudson.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: will the government help write trusts' shopping lists?
Two recent public accounts committee reports suggest the NHS may still have a thing or two to learn about shopping.
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News
CCGs setting spending priorities urged to 'be brave'
Most primary care trust commissioners believe they have struggled with setting priorities for health spending in their area, according to a new research report.
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NewsDH reinterprets research showing NHS has competition advantage
An economic study previously interpreted by officials as showing that the “majority” of market distortions worked against the private sector has been reinterpreted by the Department of Health.
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NewsLegal costs could see CCGs allowances 'wiped out'
Clinical commissioning groups are being warned they could be “wiped out” by legal challenges made by providers or resulting from service reconfigurations, treatment decisions and contract awards.
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NewsTrusts 'face £5bn rescue bill' to avoid hospital closures
Up to 40 hospitals will fail by 2013 without radical reform of their working practices, a report said today.