All Health Service Journal articles in 28 February 2008 – Page 3

  • 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

    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

    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

    Tee calls for cash incentives

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    NHS Direct could be paid extra to focus on taking calls from patients living in deprived areas or with specific health needs, its chief executive Matt Tee has revealed.

  • News

    Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.

  • News

    Morgan leaves Confed for Wales

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.

  • News

    Department plays down medic supply fears

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.

  • News

    Johnson said to favour principles over 'rights'

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson is against a patients' charter-style NHS constitution, HSJ has been told.

  • News

    Monitor fights shy of legal tussles

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    How to spend less while doing more

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    New national reference costs data shows that in 2006-07 the NHS in England spent less cash on inpatient, day case and emergency care than in 2005-06. Scroll down to view the charts at the end of the story.

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on local pay and national prices

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    When doctors everywhere are being urged to become more evidence based in their clinical practice, a standard retort is that health policy makers should do the same.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    'A new centre for binge drinking has been identified in the heart of London,' reports The Sunday Times.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    In more innocent days, when a protester smuggled horse manure into the Commons public gallery one of us coined the joke 'Ordure, ordure' for Mr Speaker to utter.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Creating health-promoting hospitals

    2008-02-29T09:00:00Z

    Liverpool's Cardiothoracic Centre and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital have developed public health strategies aimed at improving the health of hospital staff, patients and the wider community affected by the hospitals, as Dr David Taylor-Robinson explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Equal... or else

    2008-02-29T09:00:00Z

    The consequences are set to get a lot more serious for trusts which fail to meet their race equality obligations, writes Rachael Heenan

  • News

    Leaked memo reveals national locum shortage

    2008-02-29T09:00:00Z

    Leaked Department of Health documents have revealed a national shortage of locum hospital doctors, with some trusts reporting they are 'lucky if applicants attend for interview'. HSJ first highlighted the issue last year and as recently as 14 February the DH was insisting there is no evidence of a widespread ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Doctor-manager relationships: the big fight

    2008-03-10T09:00:00Z

    NHS hospital power has long been in the hands of two sets of people: managers and clinicians, and tension has occasionally spilled out of the ring. In the latest article in our series on 60 years of the NHS, Daloni Carlisle looks at the dynamics

  • HSJ Local

    NHS North Central London supports Whittington FT bid

    2013-02-27T17:29:00Z

    STRUCTURE: NHS North Central London is supporting Whittington Health Trust’s bid to become an independent foundation trust.

  • HSJ Local

    Hillingdon plans whole health economy review

    2013-02-27T17:38:00Z

    FINANCE: The west London borough is planning a review of the entire health economy, a report to the board of the hospital trust reveals.

  • HSJ Local

    Hillingdon would record £21.2m deficit without bailout

    2013-03-04T14:40:00Z

    FINANCE: Hillingdon Primary Care Trust is anticipating ending 2012-13 with a deficit of £21.2m, before bailout.