All Health Service Journal articles in 25 September 2008 – Page 2

  • News

    Prizes for world class commissioning winners

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts that are successful in world class commissioning may win the right to name the salaries of their senior managers and non-executive directors.

  • Comment

    Noel Plumridge on a family's care crisis

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    On Friday morning, Mum was readmitted to hospital. She is 85 years old and vulnerable to infections, with a provisional diagnosis of leukaemia.

  • News

    DH intervention forces cancer rethink

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    A primary care trust has been forced to review its plans to centralise specialist gastrointestinal cancer services after what is believed to be an unprecedented intervention by the Department of Health.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Hatching a new breed of NHS executive

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Despite signs the NHS is now taking leadership development seriously in the wake of the next stage review, SHAs will have to challenge current thinking if they are to create a cultural change

  • News

    Out of hours care standards to be applied to urgent care

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    National standards for out of hours providers could be extended to cover some in-hours services.

  • News

    Emma Dent on finding yet another GP

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Having undergone the physical and mental strain of moving I have my reward - not only living in my very own flat but a GP practice with more than one doctor, operating out of a purpose-built surgery.

  • News

    Andrew Lansley wins strong support from NHS managers

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Andrew Lansley has won respect from managers for his detailed knowledge of the health service. Can he transfer this to the Cabinet if the Conservatives win power? Rebecca Evans asks him

  • News

    Andrew Lansley's recent statement on public health

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley's recent statement on public health has set out the Conservatives' stall in this area. He has weighed in to criticise parameters such as deprivation indicators. He is no doubt correct to say older people make more calls on the health service but neglects to mention ...

  • News

    PCT campaigns against domestic violence

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Hull teaching primary care trust is to attempt to tackle the problems of domestic violence by using a social marketing campaign aimed at male perpetrators of attacks.

  • News

    Health service can affect health inequalities

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Few would disagree with your point that a reduction in income inequality would help to reduce health inequalities. But few primary care trusts in poor health areas will agree with the idea that the health service can do no more for health inequalities or that the redistribution of health resources ...

  • News

    Trusts urged to act on blood clots advice

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Hospital trusts are being urged to adopt new guidelines designed to prevent blood clots that kill up to 25,000 people a year.

  • Blogs

    Moral hazard 102 for health managers

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Through reforms in the 1990s and now in the 2000s, the NHS has been developing and apparently maturing, by accident and design, a type of competitive, mostly internal market structure.

  • News

    Dr Foster Intelligence sheds 10 jobs

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Healthcare information provider Dr Foster Intelligence has made 10 redundancies as part of an ongoing shake-up.

  • News

    Gordon Brown promises free prescriptions for cancer patients

    2008-09-24T12:01:00Z

    Gordon Brown promised to abolish prescription charges for cancer patients as part of a 'new settlement' focusing on fairness.In what had been described before he spoke as the speech of his life, the prime minister's announcement that he would scrap the charges for cancer patients from April was well received ...

  • News

    NHS data breach furore could derail reforms

    2008-09-24T11:50:00Z

    Service reforms are at risk of being derailed by the 'hyperbole' surrounding government data breaches, Dr Foster Intelligence has warned.

  • News

    Ben Bradshaw: NHS top-up debate will never be resolved

    2008-09-24T11:42:00Z

    Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said the dilemma of whether to allow co-payments will never be resolved but that a compromise may be found in adjusting the way drug effectiveness is measured.

  • News

    Charities support Labour on health interventionism

    2008-09-24T11:35:00Z

    Charities and activists have told Labour not to shy away from tackling access to GP services and to ignore jibes about the 'nanny state'.

  • Blogs

    Moral hazard just too complicated, apparently

    2008-09-24T09:00:00Z

    I have received feedback from two managers and my personal chief exec on my moral hazard blog.

  • HSJ Partners

    Paul Allen on the war for NHS talent

    2008-09-24T09:00:00Z

    First the bad news. According to the chancellor of the exchequer, this country is experiencing the harshest economic conditions in 60 years. On a more upbeat note, GCSE and A-level results are at an all-time high and more young people than ever are going into higher education.

  • Comment

    Nicky Jonas on NHS volunteers abroad

    2008-09-24T09:00:00Z

    Volunteering offers stressed-out NHS managers the chance to make a difference in the developing world and learn valuable new skills that can give them an edge when they return home.