All Health Service Journal articles in 26 January 2012 – Page 2
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Comment'Reconfiguration may do more harm than good'
History warns us that reconfiguration is not the panacea it’s cracked up to be, says Andy McKeon.
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LeaderA weak private sector is bad news for the NHS
The future for the private hospital sector is not a pretty one, as our exclusive analysis of Laing and Buisson’s authoritative annual market review reveals, and this conclusion prompts two questions.
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HSJ Local
Commissioner contract still unsigned at RUH
FINANCE: Royal United Hospital Bath Trust has still not signed a contract with its lead commissioner for 2011-12, less than three months before the end of the financial year.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: just how much will public health have?
So local authorities, it appears, won’t be getting much of a public health fund after all.
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NewsPrivate patient income continues to fall
The NHS’s real terms income from treating private patients declined in 2010 for the fifth year, according to market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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CommentMichael White: will Lansley's Healh Bill survive the 'big push'?
Do you remember the Battle of the Bulge? No, nor do I. It was the last German counter-offensive on the western front in World War II, a thrust through the Ardennes at Christmas 1944 that hoped to push British and American armies back into the Channel.
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NewsExclusive: private acute providers warned over slowing NHS-funded work
The UK’s private acute healthcare industry shrank in 2010 for the first time in at least three decades despite continued growth in its NHS-funded business, according to a new report by analysts Laing and Buisson.
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NewsGMC moves on 'gagging clauses' in pay-off deals
Trusts and clinicians have been prohibited from writing or signing “gagging clauses” that could prevent whistleblowing.
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CommentMedia Watch: January gloom continues as colleges are next to oppose bill
‘Blue Monday’ might have been last week but the downbeat mood has continued for many in the media coverage of the health service.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow proper procurement can lead to multi-million pound efficiency savings
The NHS needs to re-evaluate its procurement policy if it is to chip away at the £20bn efficiency challenge, says Shaun Howlett.
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Comment'Don't rush through regulation at the expense of innovation'
The PIP breast implant scandal has raised difficult questions for trusts and clinicians about the faith they place in the reliability of medical devices they use.
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HSJ Knowledge
How implementing digital dictation encouraged one trust to review its service provision
One trusts move to digital dictation from an outdated process not only improved efficiencies in that area, but also allowed them to review other services in order to drive new process efficiencies throughout the hospital. Gunther Empl explains.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use clinical supervision to increase the use of evidence-based practice
Clinical supervision affords clinicans and planners the time and application opportunity to engage with research and evidence that can inform professional practice in the day-to-day environment, argue Emily Steventon and colleagues.
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CommentCumbrian cause for concern in the North West
Will Andrew Lansley stick with his habit of using Cumbria as poster child for GP commissioning?
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CommentThe curious case of evolution in the West Midlands
It’s evolution, but not as Darwin would know it.
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News
Risks facing the commissioning board: in its own words
Key details of the NHS Commissioning Board’s design have been revealed in a new document published today.
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HSJ Local
Two London mental health trust bosses announce departure
WORKFORCE: Two of London’s three non-foundation trust mental health organisations have announced the departure of their chief executives.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy it's vital to improve patient access to information
In an age of instant access to news and data, on the go and 24 hours a day, patient access to healthcare information and decisions remains unreliable and poorly connected. An independent council in Northern Ireland is trying to change this, as Maeve Hully explains.
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NewsCommissioning board 'likely' to enforce standard patient records
The NHS Commissioning Board is “likely” to mandate new a set of standards for clinical and social care records in a push to increase efficiency, HSJ has been told.
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NewsMonitor licensing could stifle innovation - FTN
Monitor’s plans for safeguarding services from closure risk “stifling” innovation and preventing trusts from complying with CQC requirements, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.