All Health Service Journal articles in 31 March 2011 – Page 3
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HSJ Local
NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent consolidates its estate
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has carried out a headquarters accommodation review and, as a result, is re-locating some of its staff.
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HSJ KnowledgeImproving patient flow across the cardiology pathway
The elective pathway for cardiology encompasses a wide range of patient transactions and, as with any multi-component patient journey, opportunities for human error, inefficiency and system failure can arise at any point. But lean principles and a clear IMPaCT programme can achieve and sustain cardiology pathway improvements, say Anne Mawson ...
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CommentHealth and wellbeing needs to remain a local responsibility
Early formation of health and wellbeing boards can quickly reduce wasted effort and result in clear strategic oversight of health issues - but they need to stay free from too much Whitehall interference, as Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council chief executive Graham Burgess explains.
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NewsRethink public health data cuts - watchdog
A watchdog has called for a government rethink after discovering the NHS is set to axe the collection of key data on smoking, drinking and other health issues to cut costs.
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NewsParamedic concerns raised by Bird inquest coroner
Concerns about ambulance staff being held back from casualty scenes have been raised by the coroner who held inquests into the deaths of Derrick Bird and the 12 people he shot dead in Cumbria last year.
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NewsMPs to hear criticism of MS care
Multiple sclerosis patients could be driven to suicide by a lack of access to treatment, a campaigner will tell MPs today.
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NewsHealth board investigates care home deaths
An investigation has been launched after four elderly residents died in one week at a care home.
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HSJ Local
Practice nurse and sessional GP proposed for NHS Islington shadow consortia board
STRUCUTRE: The north London primary care trust GP consortium shadow board willl see 11 voting members, seven of them GPs.
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HSJ Local
Islington practices still referring 'low priority' procedures
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s finance papers have highlighted four practices still referring ‘low priority’ procedures.
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HSJ Local
NHS Richmond agrees year-end settlements with two key providers
FINANCE: The south west London primary care trust has agreed a year-end settlement plan with Kingston and West Middlesex University Hospitals and is “finalising” a similar deal with St George’s.
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HSJ Local
NHS Barking and Dagenham best in sector for viability of QIPP plans
FINANCE: The east London primary care trust’s £6.1m quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan (QIPP), submitted in January, has been fully risk-assessed as the best of the four outer north east London PCTs.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Partnership gains council approval for service change
STRUCTURE: Sussex Partnership has welcomed a decision by the East Sussex health overview and scrutiny committee to approve significant changes in mental health services in the county.
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HSJ Local
NHS East Sussex Downs £2m behind on surplus plan
FINANCE: The primary care trust is £2m behind on its year-end forecast surplus of 3.6m.
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HSJ Local
Hastings and Rother PCT on course to beat planned surplus
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s latest finance report shows that at the end of February it was on course for a surplus of £7.3m, around £2m more than planned.
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HSJ Local
Medway to fund 24-hour mental health helpline
COMMERCIAL: Primary care trust commissioners in Medway have announced that from 1 April, support from the helpline Mental Health Matters will be available round the clock.
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HSJ Local
NHS Medway set to launch carbon reduction plan
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust has submitted a carbon management plan to its board which will cost £620,000 over the next five years.
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire PCT staff to be 'aligned' to consortia
WORKFORCE: NHS Cambridgeshire staff will be assigned to emerging consortia and “aligned to their most likely end state” in the new few months, according to the primary care trust’s chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Chief operating officer takes on information role at east Kent PCT
WORKFORCE: The primary care trust’s chief operating officer and lead nurses has taken on an extra role, board papers from March note.
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HSJ Local
South London Healthcare Trust predicted to hit A&E target for year, despite shaky start
PERFORMANCE: The multi-site south London trust is predicted to hit the target of 95 per cent of A&E attendances seen within four hours for 2010-11, a report from the capital’s strategic health authority has said.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bury lifts IVF ban, despite continued overspending
FINANCE: A financially challenged primary care trust has lifted the bar it placed on IVF services, despite continuing to overspend at a rate of £600,000 a month.