All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 51
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Doctors slam reform plans
Doctors would not be prepared to pay to be regulated by a body which did not represent their profession, the chair of the British Medical Association has said.
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Michael White: junior doctors
'Hewitt would have watched footage of Cameron being cheered by a throng of angry junior doctors with some alarm'
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Patient top-up fees on rise, say doctors
Patients are increasingly having to pay top-up fees for private care because of budget cuts in the NHS and long waiting times, according to a report by pressure group Doctors for Reform.
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Thousands of junior doctors start new jobs
Hospitals were yesterday faced with thousands of junior doctors starting new jobs at the same time.
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Comment
Media Watch: junior doctors
'How could they be so stupid?' asked the Daily Mail as it berated the government for failing to ensure junior doctors will be guaranteed jobs this summer in the Department of Health's new recruitment process.
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Media Watch: doctor MoTs
If you'd just open the bonnet now, Dr Cameron, and we'll be through with your MoT for another five years. Before you know it, young Dr Finlay will be up for his MoT too.
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European directive could hamper electronic records
Key planks of the electronic patient record could break European law, the Commons health select committee has been told.
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Doctors question NHS Direct
Doctors have called on the government to re-evaluate NHS Direct as it is increasing their workload.
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Trusts urged to tackle patient dignity issues
The Healthcare Commission has called on the NHS to look again at how it respects patient dignity, in relation to hospital food, help with eating and mixed-sex wards.
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Think tank slams 'dysfunctional' DGH reforms
The government has been criticised for its dysfunctional handling of hospital reconfiguration in a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research this week.
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IT ownership devolved
NHS managers who are being given 'local ownership' of the national programme for IT will be expected to take 'local responsibility' for it, Lord Hunt has said.
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ISTCs: wave three under way despite doubts
The Department of Health is pushing ahead with wave two of its independent sector treatment centre programme despite scant evidence of value, HSJ understands.
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Lansley demands health inequalities drive
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has called for fresh policies to reduce health inequalities across London.
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Comment
Managers must dig deep for new skill set
Overcoming complex NHS management challenges - insularity, short-termism and a sometimes crippling hierarchy - will require major changes to the way managers operate, argues Nigel Edwards
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Johnson stalls on Manchester decisions
Health secretary Alan Johnson has postponed a crunch decision on two contested service changes in Greater Manchester.
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Global fall in measles deaths
Deaths from measles have fallen by 60 per cent worldwide since 1999, according to the World Health Organisation.The fall in deaths from 873,000 in 1999 to 345,000 in 2005 beats the United Nations goal to halve measles-related mortality rates and is largely thanks to a 75 per cent decline in ...
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Nuffield pulls out of theatres deal
The second wave of the Department of Health's independent sector treatment centre programme has been dealt a further blow, with Nuffield Hospitals pulling out of negotiations to provide mobile operating theatres across the West Midlands.
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Diagnostics deal delayed by five months
A £257m contract with an independent company to provide 450,000 diagnostic procedures a year may not start until September, five months behind schedule.
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Michael White: parliamentary deadlock
'Parliament is deadlocked on serious issues that may end up in a 'ping pong' test of wills'
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Patient data records proof 'patchy'
Evidence to suggest the NHS care records service will save thousands of lives is 'patchy', the government has admitted.