All Health Service Journal articles in 20 September 2007 – Page 3
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News
Unit sets out to scrutinise Euro policies
The NHS Confederation this week launched a new unit to help its members get to grips with European policy and its potential impact on UK health services.
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Executives face fresh scrutiny on hospital infection outbreaks
The government wants a new power to place a legal requirement on NHS chief executives to report MRSA and Clostridium difficile outbreaks to the Health Protection Agency.
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Picture probe as four sacked in Newcastle
Two hospital trusts are investigating staff for viewing inappropriate images on work computers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Long-term sick leave is a pain in the neck
Nearly 10 million working days are lost each year to musculoskeletal disorders. With evidence that lack of work can be bad for people's health, Stephen Bevan argues 'signing off' is not the only option
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Comment
Michael White on panic politics
'I imagined patients queuing outside their local hospital, just like Northern Rock'
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HSJ Knowledge
The NICE threshold
How costly or cheap, relative to its benefits, does a healthcare technology have to be to justify its rejection or acceptance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence?
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The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has put into action new powers that give it a greater say over which service changes go to it for a full review.Members of the group this month gave health secretary Alan Johnson members’ opinion on whether it should embark on a review of service changes ...
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Darzi citizens' jury gives PM and Johnson wish list
The prime minister this week joined the health secretary and health minister Lord Darzi at one of a series of ‘citizens’ juries’ on health.Gordon Brown, Alan Johnson and Lord Darzi talked to around 120 patients and selected members of the public about their priorities for the health service at an ...
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Renewed efforts to set up national tariff
Mental health trusts are signing up to new payment by results pilots, although fears remain that a national system will not be implemented.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mastering strategic asset management
NHS organisations must keep tabs on their estate by compiling comprehensive information on their properties, writes Mark Paget Skelin
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HSJ Knowledge
Staying informed on healthcare
Christine Halpin talks about establishing a health information service for disadvantaged groups.
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News
In this week's HSJ
NewsEngland's clinical leaders have backed moves to reconfigure specialist acute services - but urged caution over changes to the district general hospital.More than half the contracts for the NHS to provide patient transport services are at risk of being given to private or voluntary-sector providers, ambulance trusts have warned.The prime ...
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Don't blame the weatherman
Although it may feel like there will be no discernable change in the weather from summer to winter this year, make no mistake shifts in temperature can have a serious impact on the Nation's health.As primary care trusts and GPs continue to work out ways to keep costly hospital admissions ...
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