All Health Service Journal articles in 24 January 2008 – Page 2
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Comment
Hospital beds - dispelling myths
Throughout the NHS's history, politicians have been under pressure to protest against proposed hospital closures. But having more beds is not always better. In fact, too many hospital beds can lead to imbalances in overall health service provision and damage the quality of services, argues Richard Banyard
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Frank Burns on IT policy in the NHS
Anyone interested in how high-profile national policy is developed will have enjoyed the revelation, on Radio 4’s Wiring the NHS programme, that in 2002 then NHS IT director Sir John Pattison was given only 10 minutes to pitch the creation of the national IT programme to prime minister Tony Blair. ...
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Generic drugs could save PCTs £200m
Primary care trusts should do more to encourage GPs to prescribe cheaper generic drugs, the public accounts committee has said.
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Accessible MRI scan plan backfires
A hospital trust's attempt to provide accessible MRI scans for some of its patients has left it nursing a bill of around £10,000 per scan.
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Strong accountability offers a chance to focus on the neediest
How best to reduce health inequalities? Our news analysis this week shows what has long been suspected: that different areas not only have starkly different premature death rates, but that in some cases primary care trusts with the greatest need spend the least on tackling these early killers.
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Most PCTs want to keep existing accountability systems
Most primary care trusts do not want new structures for improving accountability to patients, NHS Confederation research suggests.
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Why achieving equality in healthcare is proving tricky
Spending on heart disease detection and treatment perfectly illustrates how the neediest patients often get the rawest deal. Could local scrutiny ensure fair play? Sally Gainsbury reports
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Ash's payout unlikely to mean flood of claims
Actor Leslie Ash's £5m compensation will not lead to a flood of successful complaints, the NHS Litigation Authority has underlined.
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HSJ Knowledge
Dementia care: in search of the person behind the condition
There will be a massive rise in the number of people with dementia in the next 15 years. They will all require a gold standard of person centred care, where they are kept occupied and their identity recognised
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Management costs: trusts can only benefit from comparison
Figures published by the Department of Health reveal huge variations in NHS trusts' management costs, from 0.4 per cent of their income up to 15 per cent.
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Jon Restell on big picture partnerships
In the winter months I need some little fantasies to spice up my working life. Let me share with you just one of many.
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Private patients' unpaid bills leave trusts chasing millions
NHS trusts and foundation trusts are owed millions in outstanding fees from private patients, HSJ has learned.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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