All Health Service Journal articles in 29 April 2010 – Page 2
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NewsCall for hospitals to report knife wounds
Hospitals should provide police with information when victims of woundings are treated in emergency departments, the Liberal Democrats said today.
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InformationHSJ Post-Election Briefing - Monday 10th May 2010
Attend HSJ’s post-election briefing for an immediate reaction on what the general election result means for you and your organisation.
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NewsRobert Naylor to speak at HSJ post-election briefing
Sir Robert Naylor, chief executive of University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust, has been confirmed as a speaker at HSJ’s post-election briefing.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Presentation Zen
Present your points powerfully through calm preparation, says Iain Lang
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NewsHealth informatics could transform NHS, says Swindells
Health informatics could play a revolutionary role in the NHS after the general election - but only if informaticians step up to the challenge, an industry body has said.
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NewsNorth West accelerates NHS web development
NHS organisations in the north west are taking advantage of the recession to hire top IT experts on the cheap to help speed up the development of their web technology.
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NewsNext government must quash preferred provider policy
The next government must scrap any notion of a “preferred provider” policy and ensure a level playing field for all potential service suppliers, according to a report from the NHS Confederation’s NHS Partners Network.
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NewsTargeted treatments could reduce long term NHS costs
The NHS could make significant cost savings if it made better use of diagnostic tests and patient information to tailor treatment to individual patient groups, according to a report by international researchers.
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NewsA&E departments have fewer than half the consultants they need
Accident and emergency departments have fewer than half the consultants they need to cope with demand, the College of Emergency Medicine has warned.
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NewsAmbulance trusts shun urgent care centres
Commissioners have criticised ambulance trusts for not delivering appropriate patients to urgent care centres instead of A&E departments in some parts of the country.
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CommentAndrew Jones on the rise of the health consumer
Writing an HSJ opinion column in the last week before the election, should I be defending the policy of Her Majesty’s opposition, claiming interest in my small contribution; should I be defending the interest of the independent sector, which pays my salary; or should I be defending the vested interests ...
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NewsNHS patients in richer areas get operations earlier
The NHS is operating on patients from richer areas when they are significantly less sick than those from deprived communities, according to analysis carried out by HSJ of the inaugural national collection of patient reported quality measures.
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Community
Blackberry boost
A new whizzy bit of audience participation technology appeared last week at an HSJ conference, allowing delegates to text questions to the chair, where they pop up on a screen for the panel to answer.
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LeaderElected PCT boards - we're not ready
If the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power in a hung parliament, then we now know what their number one health bargaining chip would be.
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Community
Boozy insult
Delegates at Unison’s annual health conference were shocked and appalled when a fringe event speaker presented a list of headlines generated by the Boorman NHS health and wellbeing review.
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NewsNearly half of GP practices bust commissioning budget
The value of the healthcare resources used by practice based commissioners significantly varies from the indicative budgets they have been set.
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CommentMichael White: on the campaign trail
Always in search of a scoop, I tried to track down a speech about the NHS which I had heard that Gordon Brown made last weekend. It did not seem to have been widely reported, but this was not entirely the media’s fault.
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NewsSelf care provider to introduce 'payment by results' pilot
A leading provider of self care programmes is seeking to prove to primary care trusts that it can save them significant sums on managing long term conditions by piloting a “payment by results” scheme.
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NewsPay and stress put medics off chief exec role
The insecurity of life at the top is a major deterrent to doctors becoming senior NHS managers, a report has warned.
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CommentJudith Smith: commissioning needs to be reborn, not killed off
Only radical new approaches will take commissioning forward after the election
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