All Health Service Journal articles in 23 August 2007 – Page 3

  • News

    Agency docs are 'cheaper than locums'

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Agency doctors are up to £4,500 a year cheaper than locums from the NHS's own staffing bank, claims new research.

  • News

    Airborne medics save lives claim helicopter charities

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    All Our Yesterdays

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    August 21, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewOn the issue of vagrancy in London: ‘It is highly probable that a large number of vagrants in their wanderings touch London…in a six months period the London Public Assistance Committee has dealings with some 13000 separate individuals who have ...

  • Comment

    Medic's freedoms will reveal commitment to NHS autonomy

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    'The arrival of another world-class surgeon at Richmond House is a significant coup for NHS chief executive David Nicholson'

  • News

    Home births to be included in payment by results tariff

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Home births will be included in the payment by results tariff next year to support choice for women the chief executive of NHS has announced.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Maggie Rae on building trust

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Competence-based work and well-defined skills are key to an effective workforce. My civil service colleagues benefit greatly from the Professional Skills for Government training they get. Of course, experience and creative thinking are also part of a well-rounded person.However, you can have all the skills, intelligence and qualifications you like, ...

  • News

    Deliver dignity calls

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Mental health charities have stepped up calls to scrap mixed-sex wards following a government commitment to treat mental health patients with greater dignity.

  • News

    SNP calls for fast-track reforms

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's new SNP health secretary has called on NHS boards to accelerate the pace of change to give patients the services they deserve.

  • News

    CfH pulls paid-for google link

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Typing 'where did all the money go' into Google until recently directed users to the website of the Department of Health's IT programme.

  • News

    DoH to push choice policy using payment by results

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    The government has announced it will begin using payment by results to drive choice.

  • Comment

    Is it the end for district general hospitals?

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Will more care at home and new 'polyclinics' spell the end of district general hospitals? Patient benefit must drive services, says Ian Gilmore, while Anthony Harrison suggests local hospitals still have a place

  • News

    Where NHS finance goes wrong

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    A new report has called for more "honesty" in financial forecasting in the NHS.Health trust chief executives and finance directors are frightened of publishing bad financial forecasts for fear of losing their jobs, claims the report by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)."Understandably, they may delay bad news for ...

  • News

    NICE stands firm, but the public must learn to respect rationing

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    When the High Court upheld NICE guidance on Alzheimer's drugs, it was seen as an endorsement of its fairness and credibility. But unless the public is better informed of resource issues, unrealistic demands for new drugs will continue to be an issue, writes Helen Mooney

  • News

    Warning for 'optimistic' foundations

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Foundation trusts could see one of their freedoms curtailed if they continue to make 'overly optimistic' predictions about their performance.

  • News

    Weird world health

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Is this something that the anti obesity lobby can learn from? The Italian town ofVarallois to pay overweight residents to lose weight; men will receive 50 euros (around£34) for losing 9 pounds in a month, while women will get the same amount for shedding 7 pounds. If they can keep ...

  • News

    HSJ launches revamped website

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    HSJ has launched a new-look website featuring extra content and designed to be easier to use.

  • News

    Inequality targeted

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    The most deprived areas of the country are to get help to raise life expectancy and meet 2010 targets to reduce health inequalities with a health inequalities intervention tool.

  • News

    Looky likey

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Our looky likey this week is suggested by NHS National Workforce Projects web development and new media officer Tim Gough. He writes: 'Has anyone ever spotted the unbelievable lookylikeyness between your columnist Noel Plumridge and Tim Brooke-Taylor? I thought the Goodies were taking over the NHS when I turned to ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Trading places

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    After an exceptional week spent in each other's roles, the chief executives of a primary care trust and its main acute provider agree the idea works. Daloni Carlisle reports

  • News

    Stroke service start

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    A 24-hour stroke service in north London has been launched at University College London Hospitals foundation trust in a joint initiative with the Whittington Hospital trust.