All Health Service Journal articles in 18 October 2007 – Page 3
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LMCs don't want polyclinics
GPs are set to challenge Lord Darzi’s blueprint for the NHS inLondon.BMA local medical committees inLondonhave called in doctors from the Royal College of GPs and the London Deanery in a bid to commission research that challenges what they say are assumptions in the plan.GPs are particularly anxious about the ...
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Tariff delays hit specialists
Further delays to the specialist tariff under payment by results could jeopardise applications for foundation trust status, according to managers.Chief executive of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Andrew Woodhead told HSJ the Department of Health 's announcement last week to delay the publication of a list of providers eligible for ...
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Cost of obesity equipment doubled
Hospitals have doubled their spending on equipment for obese patients, new figures revealed by the Liberal Democrats have shown. Hospitals spent an average of£60,000 on measures to treat obese patients this year compared with£30,000 spent three years ago. This included specialist equipment such as beds and chairs as well as ...
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Psychological therapy: look at the big picture
The government's announced investment in training cognitive behavioural therapy practitioners is to be welcomed by those who have been calling for more accessible psychological therapies on the NHS. However, before assuming this is the total solution, we should look at the broader picture, writes Lesley Murdin
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Glossary
Healthcare resource groupsThe national tariff is structured around case-mix measures called healthcare resource groups. HRGs represent groups of clinically similar treatments and diagnoses, which consume similar levels of healthcare resource.Market forces factorThis is the formula intended to counterbalance regional economic differences by adjustments to reference costs.Reference costsThe cost of each ...
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Useful PbR documents and websites
Implementing PbR: information on the 2006 rollout. DoH PbR Implementation Support Guide, March 2006. Introduction, pages 4-52006-07 PbR technical guidance: executive summaryRevised PbR tariff 2006-07Delivering the NHS Plan, the document that outlined the intention of PbRDoH introducing PbR. In particular the executive summary, pages 4-6Annexes to the introduction to PbR, ...
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PbR timeline
April 2002: Delivering the NHS Plan says payment by results will ensure NHS funding is backed by a new approach to efficiency.April 2003: A tariff is applied to extra non-elective activity for 15 procedures, including standard hip and knee operations across all acute trusts.April 2004: The first 10 foundation trusts ...
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Payment by Results briefing
In the April 2002 budget, the government announced the introduction of patient choice and the abolition of locally negotiated block contracts between primary care trusts and providers. Instead, it set up a system that would see hospitals paid for the activity they undertook under a system called payment by results.
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Raj Persaud on what motivates us
The reasons for our actions may not be as straightforward as they seem, says Raj Persaud
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on promoting diversity in the workplace
To truly celebrate diversity in the NHS, it is crucial to see beyond stereotypes, writes Hilary Thomas
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Comment
Safety studies must consider cost
Stephen Thornton's acerbic response in HSJ in September to my concerns about the patient safety industry engenders even greater concerns about this policy area, writes Alan Maynard
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning: skills for the future
Since commissioning at primary care level offers an unrivalled opportunity to shore up the foundations of the NHS, pitching in is the way ahead, suggests Andrew Jones
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Patient involvement: young clients can become the boss
Getting users to shape a support service for young people was a tricky balancing act but worth the effort, writes Lizzie Neill
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Helen Bevan on personal assistant power
We have just completed the initial test phase of our NHS Productive Leadership Team programme. The participating local NHS leaders have shown it is possible to reclaim a day's worth of time a week by improving their e-mail and meetings management and adopting new personal work processes, writes Helen Bevan
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Foreign affairs: migration and the NHS
Uncertainty about the number of migrant workers in Britain means that planning for demand on local NHS services may become increasingly tricky, writes Alison Moore
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In this week's HSJ
NewsAnnual performance ratings have revealed a persistent gap between high-flying trusts and those languishing in the bottom half of the tables. The Healthcare Commission's annual health check 2006-07 shows an overall improvement in performance on last year, but more than half of trusts are still rated fair or weak - ...
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sexual health services
Primary care trusts' management of sexual health services in general practice is 'erratic, uncoordinated and poorly planned', according to new report.The report 'Delivery of Sexual Health in General Practices' published today by the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Choice and Sexual Health Group found only 5 per cent of general practices in the ...
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Comment
Looky likey
Halloween is approaching, which led out thoughts to this week's looky likey. For who does BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum bear a strong resemblance to? It’s actor Christopher Lee. Perhaps best known to younger readers as Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels and Saruman of Lord of the Rings ...
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All Our Yesterdays
October 16, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewA sad tale in this week’s Queries and Replies column that these days would probably make it onto the Jeremy Kyle Show. A reader writes to ask about maintenance payments for a child. A clause in the separation agreement of ...
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Alan Johnson's discs
We wager that on a Sunday morning the gentle sounds of the introduction music to Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, to say nothing of presenter Kirsty Young's dulcet tones, sooth many a reader. So how did you feel to hear health secretary Alan Johnson on the programme recently? Was your ...
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