All Health Service Journal articles in 4 January 2007 – Page 8
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Treaty clash between regulatory rivals
Friction between regulators Monitor and the Healthcare Commission was growing this week over the former's reluctance to sign up to a concordat designed to reduce the regulatory burden on trusts.
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Managers betrayed by outsourcing, says union
The government expects private companies to form consortia to bid for places as approved commissioning support suppliers, NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Caruthers has revealed.
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Benchmarking: using data to boost day-day rates
Benchmarking is key to the success of Royal West Sussex trust, which has won the CHKS most consistent hospital award for its performance over the past three years. It has been in the CHKS annual list of the top 40 performing hospitals for the past six years.
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Pearse Butler, Eastern: 'I believe in strong, visible leadership'
Leaving the house at quarter to five on a Monday morning reminds Pearse Butler why he won't be looking to fill the role running Eastern strategic health authority on a permanent basis.
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Ken Jarrold on being a better manager
'Try and get your people to disassociate the message from the messenger'
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Behind locked doors
The shocking state of some facilities at Broadmoor Hospital means staff struggle to provide modern care. Emma Dent talks to the people planning its redevelopment
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Hammersmith Hospitals trust to cut beds
A leading teaching hospital has warned employees that a programme of service redesign will mean treating fewer patients, in fewer beds, with fewer staff.
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The SHA interviews, Barbara Hakin: 'I've got a very strong sense of fair'
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of East Midlands SHA
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Good intentions could be disguising a big, bad threat
It is the much-heralded new model for 21st century healthcare provision, but could confusion over its meaning and the lack of safeguards against manipulation leave social enterprise open to abuse from profit-makers? Helen Mooney finds out
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.
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Test strip price cut is 'step back' in diabetes care
People with diabetes could suffer if the Department of Health goes ahead with planned cuts in the prices for glucose testing strips, an industry body has warned.
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NHS bureaucrats are holding back change
Ian Smith got to within touching distance of the NHS chief executive job last year. Here he makes the case for managers to revolutionise their focus and free themselves from Whitehall
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DoH says avoid public health redundancies
The Department of Health has decreed that 'all reasonable steps' should be taken to avoid making primary care trust public health directors redundant to enable the NHS to retain their specialist knowledge.
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Litigation Authority: negligence cost concerns
The NHS Litigation Authority has expressed concerns over the high level of legal costs charged by claimant lawyers in clinical negligence claims.
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Audit Commission calls for end to deficit penalties
NHS trusts should be reimbursed for the money they have lost under the Treasury's resource accounting and budgeting system, the Audit Commission has said.
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Service redesign 'needs scrutiny', says Audit Commission
Local government must have a stronger voice in service redesign and commissioning decisions to ensure the public's concerns are heard by the NHS, according to Audit Commission chair Sir Michael Lyons.
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MPs ask how users can shape public services
The House of Commons public administration select committee has launched a new inquiry into the role that 'customers' or 'users' should have in helping improve public services. Key questions include the possibility of setting minimum standards for services and how consultations manage to capture the views of the right people.www.parliament.gov/pasc
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Appointments Commission chief maintains PCT chair selection effective and fun
Roger Moore, chief executive of the Appointments Commission, has defended its approach to the process of selection of chairs for the reconfigured primary care trusts in England, the first tranche of which were announced this week.