All Health Service Journal articles in 3 December 2009 – Page 3
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NewsMike O'Brien defends Care Quality Commission
The government has defended the Care Quality Commission after a report found a raft of underperforming hospitals and high death rates.
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NewsCQC 'sees no need to intervene'
The Care Quality Commission has said it sees no need to intervene in more hospitals despite new research suggesting 12 acute trusts are significantly underperforming.
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CommentSteve Preston on understanding your skills
Analyse and review your skills to establish which ones are transferable.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe national standard for intermediate care
A successful pilot audit of standards in intermediate services is expected to be rolled out on a national scale, writes Lynne Greenwood
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HSJ KnowledgeBuild a virtual polyclinic
Streamlined care cannot be delivered unless clinicians are able to share information easily. Mark Caulfield describes how Tower Hamlets solved the problem with integrated IT
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NewsFT chief to take up strategic health authority post
The chief executive of a foundation trust has left to take up a senior post with his local strategic health authority.
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NewsKing’s Fund names chief executive
Birmingham University professor of health policy and management Chris Ham is to succeed Niall Dickson as chief executive of the King’s Fund.
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NewsMonitor sacks Colchester chair
The chair of Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust has been sacked by Monitor.
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NewsBasildon responds to CQC report
The Essex foundation trust at the centre of the latest round of criticism over care failings says it has already begun to tackle the problems uncovered by Care Quality Commission inspectors.
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NewsPublic sector waste 'costs £60bn'
Waste in public services, including the NHS, is costing the taxpayer £60bn a year, shadow Treasury minister Philip Hammond is to tell the Policy Exchange think tank.
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NewsIndependent provider arms 'nonsense', David Nicholson says
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has described the idea of many primary care trust provider arms becoming independent as “nonsense”.
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NewsReport calls for urgent action at Essex trust
A damning report on the state of care at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has prompted the Care Quality Commission to seek urgent remedial action.
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Community wound scheme yields savings
A Merseyside trust has significantly reduced its costs for treating complex wounds by developing a new discharge pathway with local primary care trusts.
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NewsMinisters unsure over free homecare cost
The government reveals the calculations behind its offer of free personal care at home - and admits it does not know if the benefits outweigh the costs
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NewsTories pledge maternity support
Funding for innovative NHS maternity services is to be proposed by the Conservatives in recognition of the additional pressures that higher birth rates have created.
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NewsCommons to debate personal care bill
Older people could benefit from free personal home care if Department of Health proposals are passed by Parliament.
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CommentBeyond practice based commissioning
Practice based commissioning may not quite be a “corpse not for resuscitation” but it’s pretty clear the policy has had limited success in engaging clinicians in decisions about how NHS money is spent across the country.
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NewsSwine flu virus may have infected a third of children
Experts say the swine flu virus may have hit thousands of children without them even knowing it - with as many as a third of school-age youngsters contracting it in parts of England.
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NewsCall for increased HIV support
Despite progress in combating the spread of the HIV epidemic in England over the past 20 years, more work is needed to improve prevention and address the changing needs of the HIV positive population, a report says.
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NewsNHS 'must boost use of technology'
The NHS is falling behind other European health services in the uptake of life-saving technologies, according to a report by the Medical Technology Group, a coalition of UK industry groups and patient charities.
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