All Health Service Journal articles in 3 February 2011 – Page 2
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HSJ Local
NHS Surrey forecasts £19.9m overspend
FINANCE: The primary care trust has forecast that it faces a year-end deficit of just under £20m.
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NewsNHS Networks site aims to help commissioners
A new website developed by NHS Networks is helping commissioners by bringing together useful information in one place.
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HSJ Local
North Staffs acute trust fills two executive roles
WORKFORCE: The trust held interviews for two vacant executive positions, the finance director and chief operating officer, in November.
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HSJ Local
Complex needs unit opened by Sussex Partnership FT
STRUCTURE: A Sussex mental health foundation trust has opened a new recovery support centre for patients with complex personality needs.
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HSJ Local
Concern over mixed sex performance at Surrey partnership FT
PERFORMANCE: The mental health foundation trust’s governors are concerned 18 people reported a possible breach of the government’s Delivering Same Sex Accommodation principles on avoiding mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ KnowledgeFour steps to improving frontline patient care
Four simple steps can do much to lighten the load of frontline staff and help them to stay abreast of information on their patients, writes Roger Lamb.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe transition from primary care to independent provider
Reflecting on our transition to an independent provider of NHS care, one central word that seems to have held a unique place within the process and still resonates with City Health Care Partnership CIC is: “why?”
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NewsHealth Bill wins first Commons battle
The government’s health reforms passed their first hurdle in Parliament this week, despite continued criticism.
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NewsGovernment confusion over midwife numbers boost
The government has confirmed it has not set a target to increase midwife numbers by 3,000, despite a promise to do so by prime minister David Cameron in the run up to the election last year.
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NewsLocum agency suspends founder amid accounting probe
A leading locum agency has suspended two senior executives pending an investigation into “serious accounting irregularities”.
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NewsRCS warns quality of care could decline
Standards of patient care may be compromised if GPs focus on “the lowest price” rather than quality when it comes to health spending, the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned.
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News60% of doctors 'disagree with reforms'
Six out of 10 doctors disagree with the government’s reforms of the NHS and many do not believe they will improve patient care, according to a poll for the Royal College of GPs.
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NewsReforms will destroy the NHS, claims Unite
Hospitals will close, tens of thousands of jobs will be axed and health services will become more expensive under the government’s radical NHS reforms, the country’s biggest union has warned.
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NewsProsecute staff for neglect, say experts
NHS staff who neglect patients should be prosecuted in light of scandals such as Mid Staffordshire, experts said today.
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HSJ Local
NHS Barking and Dagenham puts forward two pathfinders
STRUCTURE: Two NHS Barking and Dagenham GP practice clusters are applying for pathfinder status.
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HSJ Local
West Essex plans three consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS West Essex has three emerging commissioning consortia.
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HSJ Local
North Lincolnshire plans single consortium
STRUCTURE: NHS North Lincolnshire GP practices plan a single consortium.
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HSJ Local
Milton Keynes to hand £90m to two consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS Milton Keynes is planning to delegate 25 per cent of its commissioning budget to two emerging commissioning consortia from April.
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HSJ Local
Warrington consortium to take duties from April
STRUCTURE: One commissioning consortium is being established covering all NHS Warrington practices.
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NewsNHS trust buys back its PFI debt
A mental health trust is believed to be the first NHS organisation to have bought back its private finance initiative debt from its private sector partner.