All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 45
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BMA slams private treatment centres
Plans for privately run clinical assessment, treat and support (CATS) centres in England could jeopardise NHS finances, threaten medical posts, and create potential conflicts of interest, the British Medical Association says today. The warning comes in response to consultation on plans for up to 10 CATS centres in Cumbria and ...
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LINks bill gets second reading
The government bill to abolish patients' forums and replace them with local involvement networks (LINks) gets its second reading in parliament today. The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill also seeks to introduce 'community petitions' that can trigger service reviews.Download the bill
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Meningitis vaccine collaboration announced
The Health Protection Agency and Serum Institute of India are to work together to produce a vaccine that will combat all the principal forms of meningitis in a bid to reduce the burden of the disease in developing countries. The project was announced by chancellor Gordon Brown.Read Mr Brown's speech
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UK transplant register tops 14 million
Nearly one in four of the UK population is now signed up to the NHS Organ Donor Register, new figures reveal. Over 1 million signed up in the last year, taking the total to 14 million people.Read more here
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Hewitt: government should have capped GP profits
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has said the government would have considered capping GPs' earning potential under their contract if it had predicted the extent of their increased profits.Information Centre for health and social care figures show that the percentage of GPs' revenue taken as profit after expenses rose from 40 ...
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Unisons weighs options at troubled trust
Unions are considering industrial action in what they fear will be a bitter fight against cuts at one of the most financially troubled trusts in the UK.
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Labour PRs win SHA jobs
Two former New Labour PR gurus have been appointed directors of communications in strategic health authorities.
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Trusts prepare for hard sell to earn picky patients' custom
DoH guidelines have opened the door for hospitals to use commercial advertising techniques. Is this necessary for healthy competition or a green light for unseemly publicity battles? Kaye McIntosh hears some early pledges of fair play
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Data on ISTCs' clinical quality is 'extremely poor', says Healthcare Commission
National data on the clinical quality of independent sector treatment centres is 'incomplete and of extremely poor quality', according to a review by the Healthcare Commission.
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NHS North West: support older patients on choice
Older patients need more support in choosing where to have their elective surgery, research by NHS North West has shown.
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Now Blair says ministers can fight closures
Tony Blair contradicts himself by giving his backing to Labour MPs who oppose hospital closure when he once instructed Labour politicians to give their backing to changes in local services
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Managers appeal for workforce planning 'reality check'
Managers are calling for health economists to be brought in to give workforce planning a 'reality check'.
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BMA: make targets more ambitious
The NHS should be set more ambitious targets, rather than lay off surplus staff once a maximum 18-week wait has been achieved, the British Medical Association has said.
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Doctors call for more allergy specialists
There is a need for more allergy specialists and better training for health professionals, a delegation of doctors from the medical royal colleges has told the Lords' science and technology committee.The committee is overseeing an ongoing investigation into allergy and allergic diseases.Find out more here
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Report calls for 50pc funding boost
Spending on mental health services needs to rise by an extra 50 per cent if the government's targets in the national service framework are to be achieved, according to a leading charity.
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DoH publishes diagnostic waiting times
The Department of Health published the diagnostic test waiting times data for the month ending November 2006.This data shows the NHS' progress in tackling the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests.Click here to see the data
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A&E doctors struggling to cope, says report
A report by the British Medical Association says NHS debt is taking its toll on accident and emergency departments in England.Despite efforts from staff to tackle A&E waiting times, a survey conducted by the BMA and the British Association for Emergency Medicine suggests departments are struggling to sustain the four-hour ...
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Not enough mental health facilities for young people
Young people with mental health problems are still being treated inappropriately on adult wards because of a lack of inpatient facilities for under-18s.A report by the Children's Commissioner for England says that despite significant investment in child and adolescent mental health services, services are often unable to respond to emergencies.Children ...
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Guidelines aim to tackle medicine supply problems
The government and the pharmaceutical industry have joined forces to beat medicine supply problems in England.The Department of Health, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British Generic Manufacturers Association have produced guidelines to ensure unavoidable shortages are handled more collaboratively in the future.Read the guidelines here
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Top eye hospital to open site in Dubai
One of Britain's top eye hospitals is to open a branch in Dubai to help pay off debts of around £13m.Moorfields Eye Hospital foundation trust is offering consultants attractive pay packages to tempt them into working at the new hospital which will be known as Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai.The hospital ...