All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-19 – Page 2
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Government 'neglecting' PCG computer funding
The Royal Hospital Haslar in Portsmouth has established a telemedicine link to Bosnia, allowing consultants to give guidance on emergency care to a military field hospital. Photographs of trauma cases taken with an Olympus C-1400L digital camera are sent as e-mail, via satellite to England. Set up by doctors from ...
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Complaint procedure 'not seen as impartial'
NHS complaints procedures are 'not seen as impartial' and 'haphazard training' leaves some review panel convenors to 'make up the rules as they go along', a Commons select committee heard last week.
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What is clinical governance?
The health secretary says: 'Clinical governance can be defined as a framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.'2
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City limits
In the first of an occasional series on the development of primary care groups in the north London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey, Kaye McIntosh reports that settling the size of units in this diverse catchment area has not been easy
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Good verdict for citizens' juries
Citizens' juries can make the NHS more accountable for the way it makes decisions but are vulnerable to charges of 'window dressing', King's Fund reports have concluded.
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DoH shake-up sees HR chiefs start work as deputy CMO says goodbye
Details of a shake-up among some of the most senior officials at the Department of Health have emerged this week.
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CHCs raise fear over trusts' shift to 'managing' their property
Community health councils are planning to seek legal advice about moves by trusts to change their legal powers over NHS premises.
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Short cuts Durham trust launches learning disabilities charter
Durham County Priority Services trust has launched a charter for patients and carers using its learning disabilities services. The charter, launched by the Bishop of Durham, sets out rights and standards that can be expected.
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Short cuts Central Scotland 'over-payment' inquiry reports
An independent inquiry into allegations of over-payments to senior managers at Central Scotland Healthcare trust is due to hand its findings to the trust board and the procurator fiscal. Trust chief executive Derek Pollacchi has been suspended on full pay since July, when internal auditors highlighted 'areas of concern'.
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Compensation offers follow misconduct case
South Kent Hospitals trust has started making compensation offers to women allegedly harmed by treatment by gynaecologist Rodney Ledward.
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Minister stands by primary care trusts timetable despite GP fears
There will be no brakes on the momentum towards creating a first wave of primary care trusts by April 2000, despite GP warnings that the timetable is too tight, health minister Alan Milburn told MPs last week.
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Fiddlers don't call the tune True or not, claims of data manipulation harm public regard for the NHS
The air has been thick for the past week with politicians firing accusations at each other about 'fiddling' the waiting list statistics. Whatever the truth in this particular instance, the episode holds salutary lessons for NHS managers. Experience in the early 1990s suggests that the disciplines of tight performance management ...
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Managers call on GMC for stronger guidance
Managers are calling for stronger guidance from the General Medical Council on the ethical duties of doctors who work as managers.
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New buyer for Oxford centre
The Oxford Consortium - the former Anglia and Oxford region computer centre, sold to Computer Sciences Corporation in 1995 - has once again changed hands. It has been bought by the Welsh company Hyder.
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New business case thresholds for IT projects
The NHS Executive has announced new business case thresholds for IT project procurements, as promised in the Information for Health IT strategy published in September.
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Showing a flicker of life but firing blanks at Dobbo
There are weeks when you wonder how long it will take the Tories to get their act together after the collective nervous breakdown they inflicted on themselves in the mid 1990s. 'I go canvassing - the voters still hate us, don't they?' a former Downing Street official confided at a ...
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Labour's NHS reforms put before Parliament
Legislation to implement the government's primary care and quality reforms is expected to be announced in the Queen's speech next week.
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Short cuts 'Institutional barriers' undermine partnerships
Partnerships between the NHS and local authorities are frequently undermined by 'institutional barriers and insensitive management', according to a report from Manchester Business School, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's management innovation programme. It says managers and politicians need to 'move towards a more democratic form of government', ...
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Short cuts Solihull's public health director is joint appointment
Solihull health authority and Solihull metropolitan borough council have appointed a joint director of public health. Andrew Richardson, previously director of commissioning/consultant in public health medicine with Worcestershire HA, has taken up the post, thought to be the first joint appointment of its kind in the country. HA chief executive ...
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