All Health Service Journal articles in 30 August 2007 – Page 2

  • Comment

    Timely action will save lives and restore public confidence

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    'Media coverage of mental health killings obliterates shades of grey'

  • Comment

    Noel Plumridge on ambition to expand

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    'Market advocates praise choice, but those within them do their best to create a monopoly'

  • News

    Johnson praised for backing reform plans

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has been commended for backing managers' plans to reconfigure hospital services in Manchester - as Conservatives face the fallout from a row about district general hospitals.

  • News

    Johnson praised for backing reform plans

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has been commended for backing managers' plans to reconfigure hospital services in Manchester - as Conservatives face the fallout from a row about district general hospitals.

  • News

    Scotland urged to look beyond GPs for out-of-hours services

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    NHS boards will have to look beyond GPs to provide primary care out of hours if services are to be sustainable, Audit Scotland has warned.

  • News

    Tesco and Boots opt out of GP scheme

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Virgin, Tesco, NetCare, and Boots have said they will not be bidding to provide GP practices under a scheme designed to extend services in under-doctored areas.

  • News

    Terminal care provision has 'major flaws'

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Terminally ill people are suffering needlessly uncomfortable and distressing deaths, a report by Help the Hospices has claimed.

  • News

    Commissioning's stakeholders design their world-class future

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts that demonstrate they are 'world-class commissioners' could be rewarded with foundation trust-style freedoms.

  • News

    Doctors may strike over contract delays

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Twelve and half thousand senior hospital doctors may take strike action after walking away from negotiations over their contract, complaining the government is taking too long to sign it off.

  • News

    Suffolk delays terminating PMS contracts

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Suffolk primary care trust has said it will delay terminating the personal medical services contracts it holds with 46 practices in the area.

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: The Darzi Ultimatum

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    ‘I know the director of nursing was impressed that you poked her’

  • News

    Pilots making little difference

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Pilots designed to drive the government's flagship policy of shifting services from hospitals into the community have made little difference, according to research.

  • News

    Pilots making little difference

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Pilots designed to drive the government's flagship policy of shifting services from hospitals into the community have made little difference, according to research.

  • Comment

    Misleading forecasts could spell disaster

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    'Chief executives and others must encourage openness and transparency in financial reporting'

  • HSJ Knowledge

    PCTs under pressure to open doors wider

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    With the disappointing results from last month's primary care access survey, the government is expecting a fast response from PCTs. David Stout suggests competition between practices could be the answer

  • News

    Restrictions eased for staff transferring to private sector

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Restrictions on staff leaving the NHS to work in second-wave independent sector treatment centres are to be scaled back.

  • News

    In this week's HSJ

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    NewsPrimary care trusts that demonstrate they are 'world-class commissioners' could be rewarded with foundation trust-style freedoms.Health secretary Alan Johnson has been commended for backing managers' plans to reconfigure hospital services in Manchester - as Conservatives face the fallout from a row about district general hospitals.More than£80m has been 'wasted' on ...

  • News

    Inequalities masked at local level

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Progress made towards the national target to reduce health inequalities is masking the areas that are facing the worst problems, public health experts have warned.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    There's a whiff of former health secretary Patricia Hewitt's infamous map of NHS-trouble-spots-which-could-cost-Labour-MPs-their-seats to the weekend's coverage of service changes in Greater Manchester.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    'Cameron promised a bare knuckle fight. He certainly got one'