All Health Service Journal articles in 30 October 2008 – Page 2

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    Michael Marmot on eliminating social injustice in health

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Glasgow had a little more publicity than it might have welcomed when the report of the World Health Organisation's commission on social determinants of health, which I chaired, was published in August.

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    PCT demands payout for Heathrow runway disturbance

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A primary care trust will demand a major financial compensation package for the extra strain on resources if Heathrow Airport is granted a third runway.

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    National NHS pay deal criticised

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Nationally negotiated pay means commissioners' hands are tied from using bigger salaries to attract more good doctors, the Commons health select committee was told last week.

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    Surviving the economic crisis

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    It was interesting to hear senior human resources figures from British Airways and Legal and General at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development annual conference. They were clear that the only way for organisations to survive the economic crisis is for unions and employers to work towards a common ...

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    NHS constitution consultation

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The comments in HSJ bear no resemblance to the reality of the consultation on the NHS constitution in the East of England.

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    Manchester mental health chief launches dismissal claim

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A trust chief executive who triggered weeks of strike action after sacking a trade union official has launched an unfair dismissal claim.Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust's former chief Sheila Foley resigned in July, the day after a report, commissioned by NHS North West, criticised frequent changes of management ...

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    Rose Gibb's pay off challenge: court date set

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will go to court early next year to try to get a £250,000 pay-off.

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    Health inequalities could be forgotten as cash gets tight

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Tighter NHS finances could mean the quest to reduce health inequalities will either get nasty - or be forgotten altogether.

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    World class care takes a team

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The NHS is truly world class in many aspects of its clinical work but the outcome figures of a brilliant surgeon are undermined without the rest of the NHS team, who provide essential theatre cleaning, nursing and ward management. A patient-led NHS has to recognise all the worth behind the ...

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    Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.

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    Monitor chair calls on PCTs to set out plans for services

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The coming years will see an increase in foundation trusts running primary care services, as well as culls of failing hospitals, executive chair of the regulator Monitor Bill Moyes has predicted.

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    PCTs say realpolitik is behind unequal healthcare

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts claim confusion, self-interest and realpolitik lie at the heart of the unfair distribution of NHS resources.

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    Back to work plans could penalise mental health patients

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A leading mental health campaigner has dismissed proposed reforms which aim to get a million people back into work as too harsh.

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    Assessing NHS performance

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    You criticise us for being pedantic but details matter when it comes to fairly assessing the performance of the NHS.

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    Annual health check progress

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    In the Healthcare Commission's annual health check, seven local trusts within NHS South East Coast were rated 'excellent' for quality of service (up from two last year) and the progress continues.

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    Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.

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    Luton defends reputation after two babies die

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    A hospital trust has defended its high profile commitment to patient safety after an outbreak of a drug-resistant E coli strain on its neo-natal intensive care unit.

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    Welsh NHS watchdog orders protocol review after murder

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    The NHS watchdog in Wales is calling on mental health service managers to review protocols for helping people with personality disorders, following a murder by a patient.

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    Why admission day affects health outcomes

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Emergency medical patients admitted at weekends have worse clinical outcomes than those admitted during the working week.

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    Children's trusts hinder protection efforts - Audit Commission

    2008-10-29T12:32:00Z

    'Children's trusts', created after the death of Victoria Climbie, have hindered rather than helped local public services' work to protect vulnerable children, the Audit Commission has found.