All Health Service Journal articles in 28 April 2011 – Page 3
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NewsLansley blames waiting time rise on snow
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has blamed the “severe winter” for an increase in NHS waiting times.
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LeaderPCTs are dead. Long live the PCT cluster?
Here’s a quiz for you. What do the following numbers - 581, 331, 162, 62 - represent?
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CommentMichael White: the Tory rhetoric is now bogged down in detail
Over a junk food lunch with NHS heavies recently I found the conversation turning – yet again – to Andrew Lansley. Is he on the level? Does he have a hidden agenda to privatise the system? That kind of thing.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: balancing the books with creative 'fiddling'
It is year-end accounts closing time and finance departments are a hive of fevered book balancing. This column wants to salute the best of that and so is launching the NHS Finance Departments Delivering Liberty and Excellence – FiDDLE – award.
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HSJ Local
Londonwide GP council to represent capital's pathfinders
STRUCTURE: A single forum now represents all of London’s 38 pathfinder consortia.
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HSJ Local
Avon and Wiltshire look to become FT by year end
STRUCTURE: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust is aiming to become a foundation trust by the end of the financial year.
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HSJ Local
Avon and Wiltshire performs poorly against CQUIN target
FINANCE: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust has lost out on £166,000 after failing to meet the full requirements of a commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) target.
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HSJ Local
Cornwall Partnership consults staff on restructure
WORKFORCE: Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust is consulting on three options for its future structure after taking on provision of children’s community health services.
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HSJ Local
Northumbria Healthcare appoints social care expert as NED
WORKFORCE: A former council chief executive has been appointed a non-executive director of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Community hospital opened by 2gether NHS Foundation Trust
STRUCTURE: A new community hospital for people with dementia and mental health conditions has been officially opened by the Gloucestershire FT.
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NewsPCT clusters and chief executives list
Full list of primary care trust clusters and their chief executives, where confirmed by the strategic health authority.
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Comment'Without evidence, the rhetorical reforms are irrelevant at best'
As real funding is eroded amid grand health policy rhetoric, there is a desperate need for hard evidence and data to inform the fundamental policy challenges facing this government. Without it, the reforms are all but irrelevant, argues York University professor of health economics Alan Maynard.
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HSJ Local
Basildon and Thurrock reports lower than planned A&E figures
PERFORMANCE: Basildon and Thurrock UHFT has reported that accident and emergency attendences were 6 per cent lower than expected for the year.
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HSJ Local
South Devon Healthcare struggles to eliminate mixed sex accommodation
PERFORMANCE: South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust has declared non-compliance with the requirement set out in the NHS Operating Framework for 2011-12 to eliminate mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ Local
NHS Leeds chief executive takes on additional regional role
WORKFORCE: NHS Leeds chief executive John Lawlor has additionally taken on the role of director of provider development for strategic health authority NHS Yorkshire and the Humber.
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HSJ Local
West Sussex consortium runs into trouble with charity over nursing posts
WORKFORCE: A charity has launched a local campaign targeted at an emerging commissioning consortium it claims has “scrapped” a specialist nursing post.
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust takes on substance misuse
COMMERCIAL: Coventry and Warwickshire mental health trust is hoping to take on provision of substance misuse services in the region to go with a contract it has just won for Leicestershire and Rutland.
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HSJ Local
Taunton and Somerset challenges C diff target
PERFORMANCE: Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust have challenged the target set by the Department of Health for the number of cases of Clostridium difficile during 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Chelsea and Westminster risked breaching private income cap
FINANCE: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust narrowly missed breaching its 3.5 per cent private income cap due to a technical change in how the sum is calculated
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Comment
The barriers to achieving cost effective interventions
A lack of clarity around the effectiveness of out of hospital interventions is preventing their potential cost efficiencies from being realised. But, says Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon, there are reasons to be cheerful.