All Health Service Journal articles in 23 August 2007 – Page 2
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Airborne medics save lives claim helicopter charities
A charter for air ambulances is fuelling debate over the future roles of air and land ambulances. Four independent air ambulance charities have signed up to new standards including a commitment to 'pre-hospital care doctors' on flights.
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Agency docs are 'cheaper than locums'
Agency doctors are up to £4,500 a year cheaper than locums from the NHS's own staffing bank, claims new research.
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Agencies cost less
Agency doctors are up to£4,500 a year cheaper than locums from the NHS's own staffing bank, research claims.Independent healthcare analyst Laing and Buisson compared the cost of employing doctors through commercial recruitment agencies with hiring from NHS Professionals (NHSP), the in-house agency used by more than 60 health trusts.It found ...
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Trusts advised not to settle women's back pay claims
Trusts have been urged not to settle back pay claims from women who claim they were unfairly treated before the introduction of Agenda for Change.
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Maternity networks invited to bid to become early adopter sites
Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites to speed up the implementation of Maternity Matters.
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A&E 'downgrade' forces trust to trash 10,000 magazines
West Kent primary care trust has had to destroy nearly 10,000 copies of a free patients' magazine because of an embarrassing listings error that has reignited fears over reconfiguration plans.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental Health Bill briefing
In 1998, then health secretary Frank Dobson announced the government’s intention to create new legislation to close ‘loopholes’ in the 1983 Mental Health Act. The announcement followed the conviction of personality-disordered Michael Stone in 1998 for the brutal murders of Lin and Megan Russell.
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Introducing direct payments into care homes
Direct payment budgets could be extended to people living in care settings to allow residents to make individual choices from healthcare services available to them, says David Janner-Klausner
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Comment
Community engagement needed to combat elder abuse
The shocking report of the parliamentary joint committee on human rights again reveals alarming levels of elder abuse and poor standards of care in hospitals and care homes.
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Comment
'New farmacy' is thriving abroad
In regards to HSJ's 2 August article on care farming, it is well worth exploring Dr Dixon’s suggestions for the new ‘farmacy’ and looking at what other countries have done for decades.
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Conservatives pledge to save district generals
The Conservatives have pledged to save the district general hospital, in what is being widely seen as an opening salvo in the run-up to a possible autumn snap election.
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Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.
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Exclusive: NHS gets first medical director as Sir Liam's role is scaled back
Leading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Knowledge
Strategies for tackling obesity
A number of approaches have been successful in delivering cost-effective obesity management in the NHS. Ailsa Brotherton and Carol Pinder explain
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: when your private life isn't so private
Employees whose out-of-hours activities compromise their employer's reputation could face serious consequences, writes Claire Reynolds
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HSJ Knowledge
Hospital health advice and toolkit
Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships for Health, the public health network forCheshireand Merseyside, has added two useful documents to its page.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sexual health courses in London
The South West London HIV and GUM clinical services network will be holding two-day sexual health courses in the coming months.
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HSJ Knowledge
Success Through Partnership conference
Presentations from the Success Through Partnership health and travel conference, held in May at Nottingham University Hospitals trust, are now available to download from the website of Spokes, the NHS Cycling Network.Click here to read the presentations
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health and care trusts directory published
A complete guide to all mental health trusts and care trusts, with contact details and names of chairs and chief executives, has been added to the NHS Network Contacts Directory. The directory already includes similar guides to acute trusts, primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.Click here for more information
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HSJ Knowledge
Optimising health outcomes through networking
Measuring outcomes should become part of the mainstream commissioning process, says Stuart Rowe
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