All Health Service Journal articles in 17 April 2008
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Framinghamis a town inMassachusetts, not far fromBoston. It’s predominantly white and middle class. It provided a refuge for families persecuted in theSalemwitches trials and it’s where the Battle Hymn of the Republic was first sung.So what’s it got to do with how much English primary care trusts spend on statins?The ...
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security
The nation’s headline writers did not hold back when HM Revenue and Customs was forced to admit that it had lost the confidential details of every child benefit claimant in the country.Words like “shocking” and “fiasco” featured above the first stories about how the information had vanished after a “junior ...
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Lyn Whitfield on
When you’re in a hole, stop digging. It’s a well known maxim, but one the government seems completely incapable of applying to ID cards.Home secretary Jacqui Smith had the spade out again last month [subs March], when she re-launched the much criticised scheme for the umpteenth time.The BBC loyally reported ...
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Using the Commissioning Simulator to guide confident and innovative commissioning
With the recent launch of the Department of Health’s world class commissioning agenda, there is increased pressure on primary care trusts to manage their budgets effectively while at the same time improving public health and patient satisfaction.However, many PCT staff have not had specific training in commissioning, and sometimes little ...
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Are PCTs redundant?
The Thatcher government introduced the purchaser-provider divide in 1991. Ever since governments have been rebranding and “redisorganising” the structures of what are now primary care trusts. However these reforms of structure have had little impact on process and outcome. PCTs are viewed as largely feeble organisations that facilitate the continuing ...
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Charing Cross
Until recently the Accident and Emergency department at Charing Cross Hospital encountered a number of problems when recording patient data. The problem wasn’t clinical, but administrative. Nurses were inputting and displaying patient information in two separate places - on a pen and ink manual whiteboard that was regularly updated throughout ...
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Progress, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder
The very latest view of progress with the national IT strategy is contained in the recently published document Supporting Transformation - the first of what promises to be an annual statement of programme benefits.Naturally enough this report accentuates the positive and a quick superficial read will give the intended impression ...
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NIBS
Headline:NHS Connecting for Health has completed the national procurement of an encryption solution for removable media and full disk encryption on behalf of the NHS.The selected product, SafeBoot, a McAfee solution, is provided by Trustmarque Solutions. The product is an enterprise class solution which integrates with existing software deployment tools ...
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Welcome to the latest issue of Intelligence, the quarterly HSJ supplement dedicated to innovation, information and technology.In this issue we look at the issues surrounding data security. Following the revelation by HM Revenue and Customs that it had lost the confidential details of child benefit claimants, there has been increased ...
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NHS North West
NHS North West has given backing to a cardiac telemedicine service after two successful pilot projects.Studies byCumbriaand Lancashire SHA and Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network have shown the system has potential for substantially reducing A&E attendance by offering a sophisticated ECG service in primary care.NHS North West says the ...
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IPstream
NHS Connecting for Health is this summer set to roll out IPstream across the N3 network at 11,000 GP surgeries and community provider units.N3 programme manager Len Chard told HSJ Intelligence: “This will significantly improve the working capabilities of all the GPs across the network.”During six months of trials with ...
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Connecting in cancer
The recently published Cancer Reform Strategy, which sets the direction of cancer care for the next five years, has emphasised the importance of accurate and timely cancer statistics information to plan and evaluate cancer care and prevention activity, building a world-class cancer service for NHS patients in England.Cancer registries for ...
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This week's lookey likey
"On opening the 27 March issue of HSJ - I started at the back - [glad to hear it - End Game ed] I was surprised to see the picture of David Bowie - at first glance I thought it was Alan Johnson. Is it just me, or could ...
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 16 April 1948"The views of the local authorities' medical officers on the national health service are bound to be of especial interest. The medical officers, have, of course, on their side been busily engaged in the organisation of their local services to ...
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Awards
Improving care with TechnologyThe highly impressive life and cost saving outcomes of the NHS North West and BroomWell HealthWatch telemedical electrocardiogram (ECG) pilot study, run over six months across the Lancashire and South Cumbria cardiac network (LSCCN), didn’t only make their mark with the HSJ Awards judging panel.The potential for ...
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Slivers of time: a new approach to flexible working
Slivers-of-Time Working is a new scheme that uses unskilled workers to perform routine, but essential, tasks. Tonye Brown explains
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NHS boards: getting the mix right
NHS boards' composition must reflect not just the community but the changing needs of the service itself, says Robina Shah
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HSJ intelligence supplement: IT confidential
Welcome to the latest issue of Intelligence, the HSJ supplement on innovation and technology. In this issue we look at data security.
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David Peat on facing up to health inequalities
I suppose it is human nature to try to focus on the feel-good sides of life and shield ourselves from difficult or unpalatable realities.
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Disease: a warning from history
Improved public health, medical advances and greater public awareness should have consigned many diseases to the past. But now illnesses such as rickets and syphilis have staged a comeback. Ingrid Torjesen looks at the latest efforts to combat them