All Health Service Journal articles in 21 January 2010
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CommunityHSJ Offer - Free cinema tickets to see Astro Boy
Subscribers can get free cinema tickets to see the new film Astro Boy. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited
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HSJ KnowledgeTake action to avoid coroners’ reports
Coroners produce rule 43 reports into deaths to prevent future fatalities. Providers must follow a number of steps to stay out of them, says Adam Hartrick
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Nuffield Trust and the Village People
HSJ was surprised to come across a snap of a dodgy Village People tribute act on the Nuffield Trust’s website.
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CommentMichael White on Tory health policy
The core of the Tory green paper seems to be protecting a locally driven public health budget.
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Community
Trilby hat
Spotted by End Game last week: NHS South West chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers and NHS QIPP lead Jim Easton messing around with a trilby hat in Mr Easton’s office.
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CommunityExpletive tweeted
Conservative leader David Cameron was desperate not to slip up during a live webcast at the King’s Fund. He was answering questions submitted by the public via email and Twitter - despite having famously called users of the website a rude word during a radio interview last year.
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Community
Election slip
Any brownie points earned by health secretary Andy Burnham during the Hoon-Hewitt plot to oust Gordon Brown were nearly lost when he appeared to give the election date away last week.
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CommentCan healthcare spending thaw icy economies?
Health spending represents great value both as a short term economic stimulus and for its long term economic benefits.
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CommentManagers' pay rises and cold weather costs
Managers in Scotland will have taken cover this week, especially from junior nurses, after their salary increases were revealed by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
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NewsCare UK chief hits out at renewal process as ITC contracts expire
The process for renewing contracts for the first independent treatment centres has been described as a “pig’s ear” by the chief executive of the largest independent provider in that sector.
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NewsNHS East of England urged to work better with PCTs
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has advised East of England strategic health authority to make “demonstrable improvements” in its relationships with primary care trusts.
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NewsFears over staff vetting and barring scheme
A registration scheme to protect vulnerable people will force managers to make moral judgements about people’s lifestyles and place a “significant” financial burden on the NHS, HSJ has been told.
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NewsEast Midlands Ambulance Service Trust given clean bill of health
East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust has been given a clean bill of health after a repeat hygiene inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
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CommentNeil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism
As a manager, you are meant to give three pieces of praise for every piece of criticism. That’s the minimum ratio experts believe is effective in encouraging good performance.
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Community
Joint job advert
Having both the big NHS regulators without permanent chairs can’t be an ideal situation as a general election approaches, but every problem presents opportunities.
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NewsElder care pilot slashes hospital admissions
A pilot programme for improving care of older patients has slashed hospital overnight stays and accident and emergency attendances, and produced significant financial savings.
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LeaderThis is PCTs’ admission of failure – but everyone shares the blame
Analysis of primary care trusts’ emergency and elective admissions data, shared exclusively with HSJ by health intelligence provider CHKS, reveals that in the majority of areas, both trends are going in the wrong direction: upwards.
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NewsMPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning
Primary care trusts should be “released” from commissioning acute care and left to concentrate on improving primary and community services, MPs have been told.
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NewsRise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs
Just 10 per cent of primary care trusts have successfully reduced emergency admissions to their local acute trusts.