All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 52
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Tool to cut delays
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has launched an improved version of its No Delays Achiever, a web-based tool to help NHS organisations achieve the 18-week target for time from GP referral to first treatment. More than 140 NHS organisations are registered as users of the free service, which ...
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Current policy threatens supply of GPs
The draft NHS pay and workforce strategy reveals that the Department of Health's current policies will create a shortage of 1,200 family doctor whole-time equivalent posts (WTE) in four years' time.
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Eight SHAs off course on smoking
Just two out of the 10 strategic health authorities have predicted they will meet this year's smoking cessation targets, which were due to be hit by the end of last week.
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'Couple of genuine guys' pay visit to Kingston
The chief executive of the first hospital to be visited by the prime minister and health secretary in their new roles told HSJ they 'seemed like a couple of genuine guys'.
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Councils to meet Hunt over 'cost shunting'
Council leaders in London are to meet health minister Lord Hunt after warning that £22m in 'cost shunting' will be forced on them by primary care trusts this year.
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Noel Plumridge on the cost of a day's work
'Calculate your daily rate. Say it out loud. 'I'm a £500 a day sort of guy''
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London SHA struggling to cope with junior doctor recruitment
London's strategic health authority has spent millions of pounds and employed hundreds of extra staff to handle the junior doctor recruitment process.
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Resignation over list controversy
One member of staff has resigned and another has been disciplined at a Lincolnshire trust at the centre of waiting list irregularities.
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Reconfiguration: Maidstone faces opposition to emergency surgery consultation
A Kent trust's plan to centralise emergency orthopaedic and general surgery work is facing opposition from local people who fear they will have to make longer journeys to access urgent care.
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Michael White on consultants
Chairing a session at a recent Unison conference on the future of the NHS I chided Clive Efford, Labour MP for Eltham in south London, after he had cheerfully abused consultants. I think the word he used was 'spivs', unaware that the room was full of them, including the nice ...
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Conservatives want GPs to control funds
The Conservative Party has proposed handing control of NHS budgets to GPs and replacing waiting targets with measurements of improvements in health outcomes.
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NHS Confederation consults on private sector membership
Private providers, not-for-profit health companies, and voluntary organisations could become full members of the NHS Confederation, if existing members support new proposals to bring the independent sector on board.
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Confederation hits out at regulation overhaul
The Healthcare Commission's plans for the annual healthcheck ratings are 'bordering on performance management', the NHS Confederation has warned.
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One-quarter opposed to independent Confed membership
A quarter of NHS Confederation members are opposed to including independent providers of NHS services in its core membership, a consultation has revealed.
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Meet the HSJ team at the Confed conference
HSJ will be covering all the news from this year's NHS Confederation's annual conference, from the moment it opens next Wednesday.
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DoH concedes defeat on secret NHSU report
The Department of Health has lost a lengthy battle to block the publication of a report into the axed NHS University.
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Learn from complaints, trusts told
Concerns about GP clinical treatment and care surrounding hospital deaths are the recurring themes of thousands of complaints sent to the Healthcare Commission.
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Media Watch: drug company's promise
This week comes news that a drug firm has offered to refund the cost of one of its products to the NHS if it fails to work on patients.
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Private companies to join support framework
The Department of Health is set to announce next week the list of private companies that have won a place on the government's national framework for procuring external support for commissioners, HSJ has learned.
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Listen and learn: keys to good commissioning
How does accountability to patients and the public fit into the commissioning framework, asks David Colin-Thome. Below, Tim Gilling outlines the 10 areas essential to effective scrutiny