All Health Service Journal articles in 31 May 2013 – Page 2
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Community engagement in Mid Devon
Examining the future of Tiverton and District Hospital after a meeting between commissioners and the public
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NewsEmergency medicine taskforce established under health education 'mandate'
A taskforce has been established by Health Education England to investigate how it can incentivise trainee doctors to work in emergency medicine.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe measurement and monitoring of safety
Launched by the Health Foundation, this report proposes a new framework which looks at how safe is care today and and how it can be improved in the future.
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HSJ KnowledgePublic payment and private provision: the changing landscape of health care in the 2000s
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has altered the way NHS health care is commissioned in England. This report, produced jointly by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Nuffield Trust, examines trends in the public and private sector, in both the financing and delivery of health care.
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HSJ KnowledgeImproving the allocation of health resources in England: How to decide who gets what
This paper, co-authored by David Buck and Anna Dixon for the King’s Fund, explores how the health resource allocation process and the formula on which it is based have changed over time, and how it will work from April 2013. It suggests some improvements that can be made to support ...
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NewsReport reveals concern about using friends and family test in A&E
Trusts “consistently” raised concerns about using the controversial friends and family test in accident and emergency departments, according to research commissioned by the NHS and obtained by HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Berkshire West CCGs highlight CSU cost
FINANCE: A Berkshire West CCGs finance paper states that the “capacity and capability” of the Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit will be “critical” to the delivery of their financial strategy.
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HSJ Local
CCG notes Durham and Darlington A&E problems
PEFORMANCE A North Durham CCG board paper warns that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation “continues to struggle to achieve performance” for A&E waiting times.
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HSJ Local
Doncaster A&E performance warning
PERFORMANCE: Recent board papers for Doncaster CCG warn of falling A&E four hour waiting time target performance at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in March.
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HSJ Local
County Durham and Darlington installs car charging points
STRUCTURE: Owners of electric vehicles can now charge up at Darlington Memorial Hospital after County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust installed new charging points at the hospital’s car park.
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HSJ Local
Northumbria Healthcare opens health centre
SERVICE DESIGN: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has opened a new £18m health centre in Morpeth.
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HSJ Local
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole mortality ratio visit due
PERFORMANCE: The Bruce Keogh mortality review team is due to visit hospitals in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole on 5 June 2013.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe potential risks of closing small A&Es
Trusts’ struggles have little relation to their size
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat German businesses can teach FT governors
Developing the role of foundation trust governors and boards
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HSJ KnowledgePaying for social care: Beyond Dilnot
Paying for social care: Beyond Dilnot discusses the history of social care reform and considers the present and future funding pressures on the system. The paper calls for health and social care services to be considered as a single system with a new framework being put in place for planning ...
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NewsHSJ Live 29.5.2013: Variations in surgery survival rates
Concerns over variations in surgery survival and ‘friends and family’, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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CommentMichael White: a bad week for GPs and MPs
The papers stir up the battle between doctors and politicians
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CommentPrepare for the workforce boom
The DH has to face up to 20,000 future unemployed hospital doctors
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HSJ KnowledgePodcast: The next five years for population healthcare
Dr Kevin Fenton on Public Health England and health improvement