All Health Service Journal articles in 19 August 2010 – Page 2
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NewsCall for GPs to monitor mental health benefits
People claiming benefits because of mental health issues could be identified by GPs three years before they stop working, new research suggests.
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NewsTalking therapies access falls short of expectations
Most patients treated during the first year of a scheme designed to improve access to talking therapies received less treatment than recommended in guidelines, according to a progress review.
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NewsFTs favour male nurse directors
Foundation trusts are more likely to give senior nursing posts to men than acute trusts without foundation status, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has found.
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NewsPCT and UnitedHealth end deal
NHS Northamptonshire has terminated its contract for commissioning support with UnitedHealth UK a year early.
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NewsDr Foster consults on the Good Hospital guide
HSJ readers have been given the exclusive opportunity to help determine the metrics which will be used in this year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic exemplifies the spirit of clinical leadership, says Claire Lemer
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LeaderHelp shape the 2010 Hospital Guide
The history of Dr Foster’s Hospital Guide is a microcosm of the last decade’s debate over healthcare quality.
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NewsSpending review 'will make society fairer'
Chancellor George Osborne has defended the coalition government’s planned spending cuts, claiming that ringfencing the NHS demonstrates the government’s commitment to fairness.
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NewsHospital criticised over maternity unit standards
HEI inspectors uncovered a number of problems, including finding out-of-date medical supplies dating back to 2002, when they visited a hospital maternity unit, it has been revealed.
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NewsNorth East trusts plan redundancies
Around 500 NHS managers and administrators in north-east England are to lose their jobs, it has been reported.
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NewsHospitals to face mixed-sex ward fines
Hospitals will face fines if they fail to end the “indignity” of mixed-sex wards, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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NewsPersonal budgets sex survey exposes 'no rules'
The overwhelming majority of councils have no rules on whether people receiving personal social care budgets can use some of that funding to buy sexual services, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeGypsies' and Travellers' health: the road to greater inclusion
Gypsies and Traveller community members have been adopted as ‘health ambassadors’ to educate NHS staff in the East Midlands. Stuart Shepherd reports
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InformationAHRQ patient safety indicator composite
Including postoperative haemorrhage, physiologic and metabolic derangement, respiratory failure, and pulmonary embolism
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InformationUrology basket
Including length of stay, day case rates, and standardised readmission ratios for urology procedures
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InformationMortality in conditions amenable to healthcare
Standardised mortality ratio of admissions from selected causes considered amenable to healthcare that resulted in death
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InformationPaediatric basket
Including umbilical hernia complications, emergency appendicectomies and medical circumcisions
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NewsNick Clegg vows to stay the course of reform
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has vowed that the coalition government would stay the course and would not crumble under pressure.
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