All Health Service Journal articles in 25 November 2010
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Lean in mental health
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust forecast a saving of £16 million and a 100 per cent increase in clinical time spent with patients.
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Pharmacy regulation
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), the new independent regulator for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy premises, launched on 27 September 2010. The establishment of the GPhC will lead to changes to the way in which the profession is regulated.
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NewsMigration caps may jeopardise service quality and safety
Proposed limits on migrants from outside the European Economic Area could affect the ability of trusts to continue providing high quality patient care, NHS Employers has warned.
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Data protection
Recent moves by the Department of Health to tighten up on data management mean that healthcare service providers must meet the international quality standard, ISO27001.
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Electronic prescribing
Picture the scene. A doctor is attending a Fitness to Practise hearing at the General Medical Council. She stands accused of making a prescribing error which has lost a patient his life. The doctor is now fighting for her career.
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Forecasting methods in healthcare planning
Current healthcare planning assumes that a combination of primary and community care initiatives and public health improvements will reduce the need for hospital beds, despite an increasingly elderly population.
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NewsEx PCT chief exec loses £1m pension in tribunal case
A primary care trust chief executive who was dismissed one month before he was due to qualify for a an enhanced pension package worth up to £1m has lost a discrimination case.
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NewsNHS leads access-to-care survey
The NHS provides Britons with the most widely accessible treatments among 11 leading industrialised nations studied by an American think-tank.
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NewsRCM highlights maternity care variations
Women should receive good maternity care wherever they live and should not have to rely on “chance and plain old good luck,” the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has said.
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NewsWomen 'expect to retire later'
Women are twice as likely as men to believe they will stay in employment once they reach the state pension age, a report has claimed.
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NewsCommissioning board chief exec not in post until October
The chair and the chief executive of the proposed independent NHS commissioning board are unlikely to take up their roles until autumn next year, HSJ understands.
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NewsDetails of how DH has spent £1.85bn since election revealed
The details of £1.85bn of Department of Health spending since the coalition government came to power has been revealed.
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NewsTop staff to move into community services, says Nicholson
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has called for the “best” staff to be transferred into community services in order to “revolutionise” patient care.
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Fundamentals of the NHS - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Fundamentals of the NHS conference.
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Fundamentals of the NHS
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Fundamentals of the NHS conference.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to reduce COPD admissions with personal care plans
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the second most common cause of emergency admissions to hospital; one in eight acute emergency admissions is the result of an acute exacerbation of the condition.
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NewsPatients need single online NHS information hub, says Which?
Online information for patients should be delivered by a single provider, according to consumer group Which?.
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NewsGPs 'face patient revolt over reform plans'
Doctors face a patient revolt and the threat of demonstrations outside their surgeries because of government NHS reforms, a GP leader has warned.
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NewsNHS Plus announces new director
NHS Plus has confirmed the appointment of Professor John Harrison as its next director.
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NewsEd Miliband promises 'profound change'
Ed Miliband has promised “profound” change to the Labour Party on the scale of Tony Blair’s reforms of the mid-1990s.