All Health Service Journal articles in 18 February 2010 – Page 3
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CommentAlan Maynard: could the Tories give PCTs bite?
The ‘toothless bulldogs’ of the NHS might hope for more control over purchasing under the Conservatives
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CommentAndrew Jones on the politics of wellbeing
Election season is upon us and the aspiring communicator can only watch in awe as the main protagonists wheel out their proven strategists and presenters.
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CommentCally Bann: funding gap
Call me old fashioned, but if you ask me, the difference between 240 and 260 is 20. Which is what I call a gap.
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NewsBed numbers will dictate CQC registration fees
Plans for charging trusts to register with the Care Quality Commission are going ahead despite warnings they are “fraught with potential risk”.
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Community
BMA says no
One hsj.co.uk reader has come up with a tongue in cheek experiment, prompted by the British Medical Association’s anti-privatisation campaign.
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NewsListening NHS chiefs boost ratings
Trust boards led by chiefs who are not too autocratic and who encourage contributions from non-executives and clinicians perform better in annual health checks, research has revealed.
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LeaderBurying the NHS mortality row will clear the way for quality push
The Department of Health is trying to get a grip on the toxic issue of hospital standardised mortality ratios.
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NewsMonitor revises private patient income cap rules
Foundation trusts must ensure the proportion of the income they earn from the treatment of private patients is no more than it was in 2002-03, even if it was earned through a subsidiary or joint venture.
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NewsNHS car parking: driven to distraction
Hospital car parking has become an impassioned talking point. While it may seem a side issue to the real work of healthcare, the heated arguments over charging won’t subside until policies are seen as fair and fixed, writes Joe Farrington-Douglas
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CommentMedia Watch: social care funding fight
A toe-to-toe row between health secretary Andy Burnham and his Tory counterpart Andrew Lansley in the Commons injected some colour into the papers last week.
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CommentMichael White: the personal care row
Seatbelts on please, crash helmets too. The pre-election row over personal care for the elderly shows alarming signs of blundering on to polling day.
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NewsNew chief exec for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust has appointed Rachel Newson as chief executive.
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NewsNPSA halts search for chief executive
The National Patient Safety Agency has put off its search for a new chief executive amid a Department of Health clampdown on senior appointments at arm’s length bodies.
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NewsManagers left mystified by Improvement Foundation closure
A company providing training to hundreds of NHS managers has suddenly ceased trading.
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NewsNHS Confederation governance shake-up
The NHS Confederation is to appoint a remunerated chair as part of a shake-up of its governance arrangements.
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NewsCQC fears over mental health safeguards
The Care Quality Commission is looking for urgent “levers” to strengthen legal safeguards it fears are failing to protect vulnerable mental health patients.
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NewsDH takes hold of death ratio debate
The Department of Health is taking action to ensure the NHS agrees a way of measuring and reporting hospitals’ death rates, in response to the furore prompted by last year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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NewsDorset Hospital makes U-turn on redundancies
Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust has made a U-turn on its decision to axe 28 managerial posts by next month - a move which would have cost £3m in redundancy packages.
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LeaderRoyal Surrey has some explaining to do
HSJ’s revelation that Royal Surrey County Hospital was the foundation trust selling millions of pounds of drugs on the export market requires some answers from its board.
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Community
Life in the public [health] eye
It could be argued that public health minister Gillian Merron has had it a tad easy this year. With the exception of a warning that chlamydia should be avoided and a quote about shingles being nasty, she seems to have landed all the fun jobs.
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