All Health Service Journal articles in 24 January 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Streamlining interpreting services in the NHS
Changing the way interpreting services are used can save money and improve patient care, as Roz de Silva explains
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to the new NHS consultation obligations
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act became law on 30 October 2007. As its name implies, much of it is concerned with local government matters. However, key sections look set to alter the consultation obligations of NHS bodies.
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News
Super-regulator could be threat to vulnerable
Plans for a new super-regulator have been attacked for cutting costs at the expense of vulnerable patients and social care users.
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News
Tooke report into MMC may be illegal
Recommendations made by the Tooke report into Modernising Medical Careers may be illegal, the Department of Health has claimed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Ethnicity recording: an unequal race?
Lord Darzi's vision for the NHS expects us to deliver 'effective, higher quality services that are safe, personalised to individual needs, and equally available to all'. Yet the Healthcare Commission's 2007 web audit of race equality found only 9 per cent of NHS trusts were publishing all that is required ...
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News
Department stalls over Freedom of Information requests
The Department of Health has been failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. Two requests regarding senior DH civil servants made by HSJ last year have been delayed.
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Comment
Emma Dent: getting on the hospital ladder?
HSJ's announcements service recently carried the news that insurer Combined Insurance believes that a significant number of people would pay more for a home that is close to good hospitals.
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News
Lib Dems set out plans for future NHS
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has outlined plans for a £2bn 'care guarantee' plan for elderly people, a new patient contract and directly elected health boards as part of his proposed NHS reforms.
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News
Dr Foster web deal 'violated probity'
The former chief of the NHS Information Centre has tried to overturn a confidentiality agreement preventing her from telling her version of why she left her post just days before a critical public accounts committee report.
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Comment
Michael White on cutting costs
At a high-minded King's Fund breakfast a few months ago I heard battle-hardened NHS veterans agreeing that there won't be the opportunity for serious efficiency savings until the money tap is turned off. Then everyone will remember how to improvise.
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News
Trusts contest figures for yearly management costs
NHS trusts are spending up to 15 per cent of their annual income on management costs, according to Department of Health figures released this week.
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News
Fertility work suspended at two clinics
Two fertility clinics have had their licences suspended after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority was not informed about a doctor involved in a General Medical Council investigation.
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Comment
Media Watch: compensation claims
While Leslie Ash celebrated, columnists seethed, indignant at the £5m in compensation the actor received after contracting an infection in hospital.
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News
Women denied pain relief during childbirth
Women are often left alone during childbirth and denied proper pain relief according to a survey.
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News
Dementia could gain same priority as cancer
A parliamentary report has called for dementia to receive the same priority as cancer and the Department of Health to appoint a dedicated lead for the condition.
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News
Royal colleges call for more input from doctors at Department of Health
A medical 'vacuum' is being created at the heart of the Department of Health by the exclusion of doctors from key decision making, doctors' leaders have warned.
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News
Practices and PCTs at odds over budget survey claims
Strategic health authorities have questioned whether a national survey of practice-based commissioning is valid.
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News
Screening for breast cancer misses targets
Three in 10 women aged 50-70 are not receiving breast cancer screening every three years, despite government targets.
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News
DH breakdown still shows up unallocated millions
A breakdown of NHS allocations for 2008-09 provided to HSJ by the Department of Health continues to suggest that a significant amount of resources are not yet allocated.
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News
Welsh health boards' checks on GPs 'lack rigour'
The general medical services contract has come under fire for failing to deliver value for money in Wales - as have local health boards for failing to hold GPs to account.