All Health Service Journal articles in 26 June 2008
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News
Age discrimination guidance issued
Two literature reviews and two research studies on the costs and benefits of eliminating age discrimination in the provision of health and social care are now available.
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News
Monitor approves 100th foundation trust
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has announced the authorisation of the 100th foundation trust.
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News
Median waiting time now four weeks
More than nine in 10 people needing inpatient treatment in England are now treated in less than 13 weeks - with the median wait 4.3 weeks.
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Nine out of 10 patients treated within 18 weeks
The NHS is treating nine out of 10 patients within the 18-week referral to treatment deadline.
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Barts and London apologises to patients for delays
Barts and the London trust has apologised to 573 patients who had to wait an average of 34 weeks for their operations.An investigation by the trust found that one of its seven bookings teams was offering patients operations at short notice, against NHS rules that say 21 days' notice is ...
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Comment
Paul Stanton on local legitimacy in the NHS
In the first article of this series, I began to explore the nature and the scale of the challenges that confront NHS organisations and those who govern them in the first quarter of the 21st century.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS estate funding options
Bridget Archibald looks at the estate funding options open to NHS bodies
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HSJ Knowledge
Rehabilitation in palliative care: a team approach
In 2003, a unique allied health professional team was set up to work with palliative patients at St Mary's Hospital, part of the Imperial College Healthcare trust. Helene Hibbert explains how it works
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News
Nursing needs inspirational vision
Ken Jarrold identifies the central importance of nursing to healthcare, calling it the 'essence of care'.
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Comment
Michael White on public health
The other weekend I found myself discussing the public sector with an old leftie who had worked most of his life in housing and hated what he feels the Blair-Brown governments have done. In a word, marketisation.
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News
Sherford in focus
Your feature 'Shock of the new' states that a single health and well-being centre will house eight GP surgeries. In fact the centre will house eight GPs.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why NHS must keep an eye on the private sector
The greatest benefit the private sector can bring to the nation is not to control the tax burden but to make NHS users demand better services
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Leader
Door slams shut on targets and opens on a world of outcomes
In the corridors of health policy there is now an unseemly rush to be the first through the door marked 'outcomes'.
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News
Lansley slates DH regionalisation policy
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the Department of Health's attempt to shift performance management down to strategic health authorities.
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Nicholson denies 'swipe' at foundation regulator Monitor
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has played down comments that appeared to criticise the foundation trusts' regulator Monitor.
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News
National dementia plan to take on lack of leadership
The Department of Health is to address a 'lack of leadership' in the care of hospital patients with dementia in a consultation on England's first national strategy for the condition.
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News
Top-up debate is a matter of principle
Your editorial on updating the NHS's top-up rules raises some interesting issues, particularly about the income group most affected - those with a bit of money they are prepared to spend to try to get a better outcome - and the possibility that the drugs may not be as good ...
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News
Trust staff go unpunished for patient data snooping
Trusts are failing to punish staff caught snooping on patients' records, NHS Employers has revealed.
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
I'm now in the East Midlands as chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester. UHL took a hit last year with the termination - rightly - of Pathway, its private finance initiative project.
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Emma Dent on Confed dilemmas
Good Lord readers, it's that time again. How quickly it comes round. Of what am I talking? The NHS Confederation annual conference, of course.