All Health Service Journal articles in 18 October 2007 – Page 3
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Health check: Cornwall trust weak on quality and resources
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust was one of four trusts to score weak on both quality of services and use of resources for the second year running.
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Health check: IT problems limit patient choice
The government's patient choice target is proving too tough for many trusts, the health check reveals.
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Comment
Health check: Foundations lead the pack but PCTs still fighting in the rear
The wealth of data unveiled today by the Healthcare Commission in its annual trust health check reveals foundation trusts are thriving, primary care trusts are struggling, and the best are leaving the rest behind.
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Comment
Health check: does the NHS want for good management?
It is the struggle to shift the trusts hanging around near the centre of the annual health check which is most perplexing the Healthcare Commission.
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NHS chief executive moots royal college to groom future leaders
The quality of managers is the biggest potential barrier to creating a world-leading health service, the chief executive of the NHS has warned.
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PCTs in race to improve commissioning
Primary care trusts have been told that ministers could strip them of their commissioning role unless they show a marked improvement in performance.
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Is Darling's spending review a good deal for the NHS?
At first glance, the NHS appears to have done well from chancellor Alistair Darling's comprehensive spending review, but a closer look suggests it falls short of Sir Derek Wanless's recommendations and on the future costs of adult social care, argues John Appleby
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PCTs raid public health funds to pay debts
Primary care trusts will spend less than a third of their Choosing Health funding on the public health problems it was intended to tackle, a survey has revealed.
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Comment
Emma Dent goes round the houses
In this column last time I reported on our stressful attempts to buy a house. Well, the stress has stopped. Because we are not buying a house any more.
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Comment
Junior doctors face a difficult job market
Already bruised by MTAS, junior doctors are now feeling the effects of market competition - but did the DoH bungle its workforce planning, asks Noel Plumridge, or did it know what it was doing all along?
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PCTs will be empowered to set 'stretch' targets locally
The government has spelled out its long-awaited move from central, top-down targets to local flexibility in the public service agreements that accompanied last week's comprehensive spending review.
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In-house HR may have no future in the NHS
In-house human resources may have no future in the NHS, a management expert has claimed.
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Welsh trust mergers get green light
The Welsh government is set to go ahead with its reconfiguration of acute services across south east and west Wales.
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Comment
Media Watch: Rose Gibb special
There's nothing the media likes more than an easy target and this week's was Rose Gibb, formerly chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, aka 'the dirtiest hospital in England'.
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Comment
Michael White on managers and motivation
If middle managers don't manage and nurses are poorly motivated, no amount of money can solve the NHS's problems, says Michael White
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Talking therapy training plea
Mental health campaigners are urging the government to invest in voluntary providers as part of a £170m spending boost for talking therapies.
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HSJ Knowledge
Public sector efficiency - driving down costs
Plenty of column inches have been dedicated to local authorities' efforts to drive down costs in line with the efficiency targets imposed by the Gershon review of public sector efficiency. The scope of the review goes beyond local government, however, containingrecommendations for the public sector as a whole, including spending ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Obesity and healthcare estate design
At least one-third of adults in the UK will be obese by 2020 if current trends continue, yet there is little guidance, or even recognition, of this in healthcare estate design. Paul Willetts and Morag McGill say it is time to act
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Comment
Sophia Christie on collective commissioning
Commissioning needs to be reformed and strengthened at every level, writes Sophia Christie
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ celebrates 60 years of the NHS
If you have any stories, anecdotes or photos from your memories of the last 60 years of the NHS that you would like to share with us, please send them to nhs60@emap.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
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