All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 11
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Comment
Media Watch: working for free
One test of a story's likely impact on the public is the range of newspapers that run it. On that basis, the story at the weekend that nurses, doctors and other staff at a Kent acute trust have been asked to do a day's work for no pay pretty much ...
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Noel Plumridge on the future of PbR
The original idea behind payment by results was disarmingly simple: more work, more money. But the dilemma was always how to pay for it in a closed, cash-limited system. So what can we anticipate from the consultation paper on the future of payment by results due by the end of ...
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News
Performance: patients' reviews to go online
Patients will be given the chance to rate the service they have received from GPs and hospitals on a website set up by Department of Health.
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Trust withdraws GP letter
A trust has been ordered to retract a letter suggesting patients pay for surgery if they do not want to wait four-and-a-half months for it.
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Comment
Media Watch: Granger leaves
'Anger as best paid civil servant goes', The Sunday Telegraph told its readers as it emerged earlier this week that the chief executive of Connecting for Health Richard Granger would leave his £292,000-a-year post in October.
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Media Watch: public health pay-off
'Outrage at hospital trust's pay-off after spat' said The Sun, as it revealed 'debt-ridden' Eastbourne Downs primary care trust had paid off its former public health director to the tune of £250,000 after a 'spat' with a colleague.
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Hewitt slates 'media myths'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt used her speech to the NHS Confederation's annual conference to acknowledge a 'difficult, often bruising' year and to attack media 'myths'.
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Comment
Michael White on hospital infections
HSJ's January scoop about the enduring problems with MRSA and Clostridium difficile yielded parliamentary fruit the other day in the shape of a Tory-initiated Commons debate in which this magazine received generous publicity. Excellent.
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News
Improvement notice for trust
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been served with an improvement notice after it became the first trust to fail to comply with the hygiene code.
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Comment
Michael white on patient involvement
Some weeks ago a Labour MP, Patrick Hall, kindly invited me to a reception on the terrace of the House of Commons. Arriving late, I stood among the dissidents at the back as health minister Rosie Winterton explained her views on patient and public involvement in the NHS.
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News
Protestors slam IPPR reconfiguration report
An umbrella group of health workers, unions and patients opposed to privatisation and closure plans have rubbished Institute for Public Policy Research reconfiguration claims.
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News
We will keep it local, says Scots minister
Scotland's cabinet secretary for health and well-being has announced the new executive government would take 'an assumption against centralisation of services'.
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News
Have a moan, you know you want to...
Hospital patients with a gripe were urged to speak up in a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of complaining.
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Comment
Michael White on policy leaks
You can imagine my distress on returning from foreign parts to discover that things have been going on in the political health arena behind my back, much of it driven by a succession of top-level leaks to this very magazine.
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News
Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on succession planning
My nine-year-old son was recruited this season to the local football league club's centre of excellence. His coaches exude knowledge, enthusiasm and a remarkable commitment to a part-time, barely rewarded, role. They spend much of their spare time watching local junior league matches. They also handle representations from ambitious parents, ...
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HSJ Knowledge
In the minds of managers
How do NHS leaders remain resilient in the face of mind-bending stress? Psychiatrist Raj Persaud talks with four top chief executives about the secrets behind their success
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Michael White: maternity woes
'For some, fertility issues are heart-breaking - not marginal NHS issues but utterly central to their lives'
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Media Watch: NHS meddling
'We're still waiting for Mr Brown to give any indication of what he might do to the NHS. Surely he won't be able to resist some meddling'
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Media Watch: 'NHS penpushers'
'NHS penpushers are paid £1.5m for doing nothing' the Daily Mail told its readers as the tabloids frothed earlier this week over news that the Department of Health is paying £1.5m to civil servants whose jobs have been made redundant.