All Health Service Journal articles in 25 September 2008 – Page 2
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News
Ben Bradshaw: NHS top-up debate will never be resolved
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.
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NHS data breach furore could derail reforms
Service reforms are at risk of being derailed by the 'hyperbole' surrounding government data breaches, Dr Foster Intelligence has warned.
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Gordon Brown promises free prescriptions for cancer patients
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 ...
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Dr Foster Intelligence sheds 10 jobs
Healthcare information provider Dr Foster Intelligence has made 10 redundancies as part of an ongoing shake-up.
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Blogs
Moral hazard 102 for health managers
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.
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News
Trusts urged to act on blood clots advice
Hospital trusts are being urged to adopt new guidelines designed to prevent blood clots that kill up to 25,000 people a year.
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News
Health service can affect health inequalities
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 ...
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News
PCT campaigns against domestic violence
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.
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Andrew Lansley's recent statement on public health
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 ...
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Andrew Lansley wins strong support from NHS managers
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
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Emma Dent on finding yet another GP
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.
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News
Out of hours care standards to be applied to urgent care
National standards for out of hours providers could be extended to cover some in-hours services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Hatching a new breed of NHS executive
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
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News
DH intervention forces cancer rethink
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.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on a family's care crisis
On Friday morning, Mum was readmitted to hospital. She is 85 years old and vulnerable to infections, with a provisional diagnosis of leukaemia.
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News
Prizes for world class commissioning winners
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.
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Comment
Media Watch: NHS complaints
First they complained about the service, now they are complaining about the complaints system.
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News
Foundation trust row over corporation tax
Foundation trusts are wrangling with HM Revenue and Customs over its plan to levy the 28 per cent corporation tax on their commercial profits.
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Comment
Michael White on the global financial crisis
By the time you read this, Labour's 2008 party conference in Manchester will be over and Gordon Brown will still be prime minister, despite whatever has happened or not in the interval.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe potential of integrated data
As data quality improves, GP extraction services become available and doctors become more adept at commissioning, it is likely more commissioning decisions will rely on the integration of primary and secondary care datasets.
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