All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 50
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Foundation will take on troubled Good Hope
Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.
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Government and unions join policy forum
The government, unions and NHS Employers have committed to a new forum for partnership working.
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GP-led firm is favourite to run six London practices for PCT
A London primary care trust has selected a GP-led company as preferred bidder to run six practices.
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MPs slam health ministers' financial failures
Ministers' failure to get a grip on NHS finances last year led to a £570m net deficit in England, according to MPs.
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Reprieved Macclesfield faces new review
A hospital which won a last minute reprieve for its maternity services is now to face a new challenge.
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Patient rights expected to be upheld in new report
The Commons health select committee is expected to recommend that visiting rights of patients' groups should be restructured, when it publishes its report on patient and public involvement tomorrow.
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Wanless to examine future of mental health
The King's Fund has launched a Wanless review of mental health services in a bid to project the cost of providing a service over 20 years.
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Pilots lead way in new era of high-tech 'telecare' at home
Three primary care trusts will be chosen next month to deliver hardware worth thousands of pounds to the homes of patients with long-term conditions, according to Department of Health head of primary care Gary Belfield.
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Minister unveils social enterprise start-up fund
A £73m social enterprise fund will be given to start-up social enterprises in health and social care, according to health minister Ivan Lewis.
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Minister: end third sector 'mutual loathing'
Commissioners have been urged not to hold third sector health services at 'arm's length'.
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Laura Donnelly on thoughts at last orders
'I used to be frightened when a colleague wore a Virginia Bottomley mask in times of stress'
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DoH: public health must 'focus on outcomes'
NHS public health professionals must become effective commissioners and beef up their analytical skills if new joint strategic needs assessment work alongside local government is to be effective.