All Health Service Journal articles in 29 January 2009 – Page 3

  • News

    Outsourced NHS staff hit by pensions blow

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has effectively barred outsourced health service employees from the NHS pension scheme in a bid to cut the government's growing liabilities.

  • News

    Wife of CQC man joins its board

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    The Care Quality Commission has appointed the wife of its transition director to a board level position as director of engagement.

  • News

    Trusts breached patient data protection rules

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Two trusts have been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for losing and failing to secure information about patients.

  • News

    Monitor faces review over private patient income cap

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Trade union Unison is to push ahead with its legal challenge to foundation trust regulator Monitor over its interpretation of the private patient income cap.

  • News

    Emma Dent on the mysteries of maternity care

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Standard maternity care is a curious mix, I am discovering. Half is highly medicalised; the other half involves being left to your own devices.

  • News

    PCT strategy plans expose the distance to world class

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Concerns have been raised over two out of three primary care trusts' strategic plans, the first scores for world class commissioning reveal.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: South East Coast in the headlines

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    NHS South East Coast must be holding its head in its hands about its press coverage this week and last.

  • Leader

    Spectre of more competition haunts NHS

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    A new beast is unleashed onto the healthcare world tomorrow which could change the landscape on everything from pensions to private practice.

  • News

    PCTs failing to involve public in drug decisions

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts are failing to effectively involve the public in decisions over drugs not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, according to a Picker Institute review.

  • News

    NHS sets itself difficult targets for greener future

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    The health service is to set itself up as a trailblazer for public sector sustainability. Ambitious goals ranging from tough carbon-cutting targets to making staff walk and cycle are outlined in the NHS's first carbon reduction strategy, launched on Tuesday by chief executive David Nicholson.

  • Comment

    Stephen Eames on managing the NHS

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    I spent a significant chunk of my Christmas break dealing with the 'here and now' while also reflecting on the harsh year we all face.

  • Comment

    Michael White on the effects of the recession

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    How should we react to headlines warning NHS finance directors and their colleagues elsewhere in the public sector that a swathe of private finance initiatives - including new hospitals - is under serious threat because of the recession?

  • News

    Survey reveals NHS executives' neglect of future leaders

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Senior managers feel too burdened with paperwork to develop the next generation of leaders, with many spending less than a tenth of their time on succession planning, an HSJ survey has revealed.Department of Health workforce director general Clare Chapman last week toldHSJ all NHS chief executives should be spending a ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Watch on suicide and self harm

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    There has been intense media interest in the deaths of several young people in the Bridgend area of South Wales.

  • Comment

    Patient and public involvement: keys to success

    2009-01-29T09:00:00Z

    Patient and public involvement managers must distinguish between two sets of people - ordinary members of the community and more expert contributors. Few can be both

  • News

    Read more on the Rose Gibb case

    2009-01-29T10:52:00Z

    £250,000 payoff to Rose Gibb was unjustified, court hears David Flory admits Rose Gibb was ‘unjustly denied’ employment rights Rose Gibb ‘hounded, victimised and demonised’ by Alan Johnson Rose Gibb defends NHS chief executives in witness box Rose Gibb lawyer claims payoff was fair Rose Gibb goes to ...

  • News

    Trusts and commissioners argue over pay for quality

    2009-01-29T11:00:00Z

    The pay-for-quality arrangements set out by Lord Darzi in the next stage review are sparking disagreement between some trusts and commissioners.

  • News

    Staff survey delivers Scottish NHS boards a bad review

    2009-01-29T11:00:00Z

    Only a quarter of health service staff in Scotland think their NHS board handles change effectively, according to a survey published last week.

  • News

    Panel to judge on NHS competition rows

    2009-01-29T11:00:00Z

    The Co-operation and Competition Panel opens for business tomorrow and both private and NHS organisations are preparing lists of the issues they want it to address in its first year.

  • News

    Edwina Hart steals march on NICE with kidney drug decision

    2009-01-29T11:00:00Z

    Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has angered some local health boards - and stepped further into NHS decision making - by ordering managers to pay for four unapproved drugs for advanced kidney cancer.