All Health Service Journal articles in 26 March 2009 – Page 3

  • News

    C difficile outbreak leaves three hospital patients dead

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Three patients have died as a direct result of a C difficile outbreak at hospital in the South East.

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    News

    Cynthia Bower sets out her vision for Care Quality Commission

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has made it clear that trusts have no excuse not to meet hygiene code standards by next week’s deadline.

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    HSJ Knowledge

    Big break for the clinical coders

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Improving coding is a priority for the NHS. Robin Gammon explains how one trust built and trained a dream team of coders

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    Comment

    Helen Bevan on productive communities

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    I want to tell you about the learning emerging from Productive Community Services, which the NHS Institute will launch later this year.

  • News

    Baroness Meacher drops bid to end private patient cap

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    An amendment to the Health Bill that would have abolished the foundation trust private patient cap has been withdrawn.

  • Michael White
    Comment

    Michael White on NHS bad news

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Oh dear, it is barely a week since I wrote elsewhere that everyone knows “the NHS is much better” nowadays. Since then there has been a steady trickle of bad news, from Mid Staffs trust and from Birmingham children’s hospital, and poor cancer mortality outcomes.

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    Community

    Snack attack

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Poor Alan Johnson. No doubt obliged to rise at dawn – all the better for spending more time with his red boxes – he probably hardly gets the chance to grab a cup of coffee in the morning.And then when he does have a chance to tuck into something tasty ...

  • Comment

    Clinical leadership meets The Apprentice

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    What can clinical leaders learn from reality TV programme The Apprentice? Ann Elliott finds out

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    Community

    Anti-obesity row turns sour

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The anti-obesity row is turning sour. Computer games makers have reacted with fury to adverts from government campaign Change 4Life that depict a small boy sitting on a sofa playing with a games console, underneath the headline: “Risk an early death, just do nothing.”

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    HSJ Knowledge

    The north-south alcohol divide

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The annual cost of alcohol harm to the NHS is nearly £3bn - and rising. Around 6 per cent of all hospital admissions in 2006-07 were related to alcohol and this figure is increasing by 80,000 every year, according to the government alcohol strategy Safe, Sensible, Social.

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    ProCure21: better buildings

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The NHS has in recent years undertaken the largest hospital building programme in its history.

  • News

    NHS faces up to 1,000 lawsuits over prison drug programmes

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The NHS may have to pay up to £3.5m in damages to prisoners who claim they received poor support in giving up drugs.

  • News

    Blood service restructure should be stopped - Unite

    2009-03-24T11:40:00Z

    Plans to restructure the blood transfusion service should be halted, health union Unite has said.

  • A minority of NHS commissioning organisations are following guidelines to reduce the number of older people who need to attend hospital due to a fall.
    News

    NHS failing on falls prevention

    2009-03-24T11:35:00Z

    The Royal College of Physicians has uncovered a discrepancy between what NHS organisations have told the Healthcare Commission about falls prevention and what really goes on.

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    News

    Detailed care record legality challenged

    2009-03-23T11:47:00Z

    The NHS detailed care record and the secondary uses service are among two public sector databases deemed “almost certainly illegal” in a report by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.

  • News

    Electronic record opt out made easier

    2009-03-20T16:57:00Z

    Patients wanting to opt out of the electronic summary care record should be able to do so without making an application in person, the Department of Health has said.