All Health Service Journal articles in 23 October 2008 – Page 2
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News
GPs are carers not killers
I did not recognise my city, Brighton and Hove, from the quotes in the news story 'Killer conditions go unseen by GPs'.
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News
NHS trusts dump Capita over payroll errors
Five NHS organisations with more than 16,000 staff have ended a payroll contract with Capita after a catalogue of errors. The contract had been due to run to 2010 but was terminated last week after just 18 months.
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News
Maidstone boosts pay offer to tempt new chair
A salary of £44,000 is being offered for a new chair for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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News
Junior doctors need better supervision
Hospitals are relying too heavily on unsupervised trainee doctors for procedures that could be carried out by non-medical staff, according to the incoming chair of the postgraduate medical education training board.
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News
Hygiene problems will be no bar to registration with Care Quality Commission
Trusts will be allowed to register with the Care Quality Commission even if poor hygiene is putting patients at 'significant risk'.
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News
Trusts too optimistic over annual health check scores
Some trusts are disputing their annual health check scores as figures show many were highly over-optimistic about their performance.
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Leader
Annual health check: pedantry gets the better of common sense
The Healthcare Commission is under attack. In the aftermath of the annual health check, its data has been fired on by trusts and the Department of Health.
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News
Annual health check note
Your report on the annual health check missed one vital fact: this is the second year running that NHS mental health trusts have been rated as one of the best-performing parts of the service.
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News
Angioplasty to be primary heart attack treatment
NHS commissioners have been asked to develop a national network of cardiology services capable of delivering primary angioplasty as the main treatment for heart attacks.
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News
Alan Johnson orders trusts: cut waits for speech therapy
NHS organisations must work with allied health professionals to bring down 'unacceptable' waiting times for services such as speech therapy, health secretary Alan Johnson has told them.
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News
Questions over who will pay bill after Chase Farm Hospital fire
Questions remain over who will foot the bill for patients transferred from a medium secure mental health unit that was destroyed in a fire.
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News
Hospital security fears after patient suicide
Northampton General Hospital is reviewing its security procedures after a patient shot himself dead on a ward.
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News
Academic health science centre race begins
Trusts hoping to form academic health science centres have been set a January deadline for applications.
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News
NHS absence from individual budget trials was 'missed opportunity'
The failure to involve the NHS in individual budget pilots was a 'missed opportunity' and deeply regretted by the social services staff who took part.
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News
Colonoscopy review triggers nearly 100 recalls
Around 100 patients treated at an independent sector treatment centre have been offered further tests after concerns their procedures may not have been carried out thoroughly.
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HSJ Knowledge
Electronic tracking system cuts down on missing medical records
Traditional methods of keeping track of case notes have been overhauled at Walsall Manor Hospital in favour of a new electronic tracking system.
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HSJ Knowledge
Plymouth health bodies enhance telecommunication systems
Over the past few years, Plymouth Healthcare Community has been building a state of the art communications infrastructure to support the delivery of healthcare services.
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HSJ Knowledge
London mental health trusts reap benefits of new IT systems
New IT systems delivered as part of the NHS London IT programme are now being used in 60 per cent of London's mental health trusts, helping the NHS deliver better, safer care to patients.
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Comment
Henry Carleton on the European working time directive
The chair of the British Medical Association consultants' committee recently suggested that the problems posed by the European working time directive could be solved by employing more consultants and ensuring managers work closely with clinical colleagues.
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Blogs
The great north euthanasia experiment
I cannot lay claim to the title of this blog - I first heard it on one of those Radio 4 comedy shows some months ago - so please take this as acknowledgement to the BBC and an admission of advanced middle age.
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