All Health Service Journal articles in 23 September 2010
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News
Unison welcomes 'positive indication' on white paper legal challenge
Unison, the major public sector union, says it has been given a “positive indication” the High Court will allow it to challenge the legality of the white paper reforms.
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Hart continues to deny withholding critical study
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has continued to deny withholding critical findings about the NHS.
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BMA warning over access to patients' records
Doctors’ leaders have said tighter controls were needed to limit “inappropriate access” to patients’ electronic records.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to get the leadership skills you need
Top class leadership can’t be left to chance if organisations are to thrive
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News
Midwife workloads too high to be safe
Midwives in some regions of England have workloads more than a third higher than hospital safety standards recommend, official figures have suggested.
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Labour in the Health Hotel
The opposition gets a chance to hit back at health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans for the NHS next week at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.
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Comment
Public health needs a long vigil
Public health must be protected from short term raids on its funding by acute services
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Comment
Whistleblowers and freezing fat
One story united the media in its health coverage at the start of this week. A whistleblower who raised concerns about a clinic involved in the Baby Peter case is to sue the NHS for £100,000.
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News
Surgery fails thousands of patients
The NHS is spending tens of millions of pounds each year on operations of questionable benefit to patients’ health, according to groundbreaking figures.
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Nursing regulator to explore extension of powers
The Nursing and Midwifery Council plans to explore how to monitor “systemic failure” in NHS trusts.
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Patients’ details left on train
A hospital trust has agreed to tighten security after a doctor left a memory stick containing unprotected and sensitive patient information on a train.
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DH keeping a close eye on local NHS reconfiguration plans
The government has been intensely monitoring local reconfigurations and their political sensitivity for the last 10 months, HSJ can reveal.
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Quality payment targets centred on patient safety
The majority of local quality payment targets given to hospital trusts are focused on patient safety, analysis by HSJ has found.
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Comment
'A centre-left party in a centre-right coalition needs to tread carefully'
It has been a fascinating week in Liverpool watching Liberal Democrat ministers, MPs and party activists circling each other at their first party conference since entering the Cameron-led coalition.
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Supplements
Primary care special report: a change of practice
In-depth reports on GP commissioning and self care
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Leader
The hurricane of protest over NHS pay can be calmed by honest debate
How much, in this age of austerity, should NHS staff or contractors be paid? Using the number of comments on HSJ’s website as a guide, no subject is of greater interest or importance.
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News
Child care branded ‘mediocre’
Health and social care for children is often “mediocre” in England, according to a report by former Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy.
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HSJ Partners
Make your big idea shine
Do you have an innovation that works well at a local level but you feel could be rolled out across the NHS? If so, then you should put it forward for the Capgemini and HSJ Liberating Ideas Award. If it’s a winning idea we’ll give you all the support and ...
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Comment
'Time to consider the benefits and flaws of the single minded pursuit of targets'
Medicine, it has been suggested, is as much an art as a science.
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News
Foundation trusts seek to halt automatic pay rises
Foundation trusts are drawing up plans to freeze automatic pay increases in a move which could affect up to half a million NHS staff.