All Health Service Journal articles in 29 November 2007 – Page 2
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News
Norfolk vows to learn from ambulance backlog drama
Health service and social care managers in Norfolk and Norwich have pledged to learn the lessons from an unexpected influx of patients last week which resulted in the area's biggest trust declaring a major incident alert.
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News
Surplus-rich PCTs anxious of cuts in new allocations
Surplus-rich primary care trusts have expressed fears that a one-year funding allocation signals greater financial turbulence ahead.
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News
Close pay gap between acute and PCT chiefs, say managers
The chief executive of Managers in Partnership has called on the government to explain why primary care trust managers are paid less than their acute trust peers.
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PCT abandons emergency surgery site
A Lincolnshire hospital is to lose its emergency general surgery for good - nine months after it was suspended as a temporary measure.
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News
Johnson hands out £50m to deep clean NHS dirt
The government has given the NHS a £50m lump sum to kick-start its 'deep clean'.
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News
In-house turnaround team to cut NHS's £36m consultants' bill
The Department of Health is preparing to launch its own team of troubleshooters to assist NHS organisations facing clinical or financial problems.
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Quality of 100 new GP practices comes into question
The 100 new GP practices to be built in under-doctored areas will be badly funded and poorly staffed, the British Medical Association has warned.
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Comment
Media Watch: £1.8bn underspend
Much of the heavyweight reporting last week focused on HSJ's exclusive that the NHS is heading for a £1.8bn underspend.
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HSJ Knowledge
A personalised input into role redesign
Community support nurses have been adding their input to a role redesign exercise at South Birmingham primary care trust.
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Comment
Belinda Phipps on choice in maternity services
Government policies on maternity services are changing and managers must ensure services around the country are prepared to respond
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: Is your PCT being overcharged?
How does a primary care trust (or GP practice or commissioning group) know if it is getting value for money? Where is it paying more than expected? Likewise how does a hospital know where it is charging more or less than expected?
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HSJ Knowledge
The nature of networks
What is an NHS network and what is the best way to organise one? Mike Simpson explains the ins and outs
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HSJ Knowledge
Teaching PCTs conference presentations
The presentations from this year's teaching primary care trust national conference are now available online.
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HSJ Knowledge
Coping with change in the health service - a guide for managers
The reality of life is not only that change is inevitable, but that the pace of change is increasing and will most likely continue to do so. Chris Howe explains what managers can do to keep their heads above water
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS cancer services - are we meeting the mark?
The conference NHS Cancer Services - Are We Meeting the Mark? is being organised by the Scottish cancer networks on 29 February and1 March 2008atHeriot-WattUniversityinEdinburgh.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pressure ulcer audit tools
Pressure ulcer audit tools have been developed by the Greater Manchester essence of care network to improve diagnosis and management of pressure ulcers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Ambulance trust contact details
The NHS Networks contacts directory now includes full details of ambulance trusts as well as acute trusts, primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and mental health/care trusts.
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HSJ Knowledge
Staff engagement - advice for managers
What can health service managers do to ensure their staff are motivated and engaged? Greg Brown offers some pointers
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Comment
Protecting patients' personal data is crucial
The furore surrounding the Treasury's mismanagement of 25 million people's personal details has real and worrying lessons for those of us dealing with data in the health service, says Robert Navarro
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Comment
NHS must treat patients with rare conditions fairly
We read Sophia Christie's article on collective commissioning with interest. Ms Christie clearly takes the view that no patient with a rare disease is worth treating, as drugs developed for such conditions have limited evidence and are very expensive due to high development costs. So much for the NHS being ...
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