All Health Service Journal articles in 28 February 2008 – Page 2

  • News

    Scottish budgets reworked

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Scottish health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a new funding formula that will see substantial redistribution of funds between health boards.

  • News

    Eleventh-hour changes to GP contract left PCTs with bill

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    The introduction of the new GP contract led to a 57 per cent increase in payments to practices in just three years, the National Audit Office has found. The huge increase was fuelled by a last-minute concession to the British Medical Association that sidelined the government's own priority to tackle ...

  • News

    'Dangerous' surgeons being put on specialist register

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Doctors deemed to be a danger to patients are being put on the specialist register and permitted to work as consultant surgeons, HSJ has learnt.

  • News

    New super-regulator begins to take shape

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Last week the bill that will see the merger of three regulators began its process through the Lords. But there are warnings that detail on the new legislation is sketchy, leaving trusts in the dark over how it will affect them. Charlotte Santry reports

  • News

    GP payment scheme must be 'scaled back'

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Offering financial incentives to GPs and other healthcare providers is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on the quality of patient care, new research concludes.

  • News

    'Overburdened' staff put mothers and babies at risk

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Too little focus on maternity services and safety by some trust boards is leading to problems, an independent inquiry is expected to warn tomorrow.

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: the Fresh Approach to Cash Alternatives Team

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveDear Don, as you can imagine, GPs are very agitated at the moment.

  • News

    Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    'Twas ever thus: why Darzi is 90 years too late

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    In 1920 Lord Dawson, physician-in-ordinary to George V, called for the creation of what we now call polyclinics in a report that was well received even by the BMA. So why did his idea never take off, ask Ian Kendall and John Carrier

  • Comment

    Speak now to influence the new regulator

    2008-02-27T17:35:11Z

    This week's analysis of the bill introducing the Care Quality Commission highlights how little NHS and independent sector managers have involved themselves in shaping the new body so far. But the lack of detail in the bill of the nuts and bolts of the new regulatory framework means it is ...

  • Comment

    Lousy singer, great lobbyist - Morgan is a tough act to follow

    2008-02-27T17:30:26Z

    As the tributes pour in for Gill Morgan following the announcement that she is to leave the NHS Confederation, it is clear not only how well liked and respected she is, but also how far she has taken the organisation in six years.

  • Supplements

    Sustainable communities award supplement

    2008-02-27T16:43:00Z

    The awards winners show how councils, local health services, the voluntary sector and local people are collaborating to tackle some of the most challenging issues our communities face, from climate change to improve public health to community cohesion.

  • News

    Staff sacked after offensive image probe

    2008-02-27T15:09:37Z

    A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A check-up for nurses

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1

  • HSJ Knowledge

    A check-up for nurses

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The risky business of ignorance

    2008-02-26T09:00:00Z

    A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change

  • News

    quotes

    2008-02-25T17:47:51Z

    "Gill has made NHS Confederation into the most effective trade association in the country without doubt." John Restell, chief executive, MiP. "Under her leadership the NHS has had real credibility nationally. She has been a really important figure in a very important transitional phase of NHS management." Jan Filochowski, interim ...

  • News

    HSJ masterclass

    2008-02-25T16:41:32Z

    Trust boards should examine their governance structures and the partnerships between different agencies, according to a paper published this week.The paper "Governance between organisations" calls on NHS trusts to look outside their organisations and ensure that their partnerships between ambulance trusts, commissioners, local authorities and social services departments are up ...

  • News

    Fraud charges

    2008-02-25T11:40:53Z

    Two former directors of a private hospital group have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the NHS.The move by Norfolk police follows an investigation lasting more than a year into financial irregularities at Cawston Park Hospital, one of three psychiatric hospitals run by Chancellor Care. The NHS Counter Fraud and ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    School for scandal

    2008-02-25T09:00:00Z

    If a hospital is unhappy about how it has been represented in a newspaper or magazine, it has the means to complain. Sue Roberts explains