All Health Service Journal articles in 4 September 2008 – Page 2

  • News

    Carbon strategy proposes tough target

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    The draft carbon reduction strategy for the NHS in England proposes a more stringent carbon target than the one mentioned in your article: zero-carbon hospitals by 2018.

  • News

    Cervical cancer immunisation plans may exclude Muslim girls

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Muslim girls will be excluded from a national vaccination scheme against cervical cancer because it clashes with the holy month of Ramadan, religious leaders are warning.

  • News

    Hull trust buys Nuffield hospital to save money

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Hulland East Yorkshire Hospitals trust has bought a private Nuffield hospital to avoid contracting out services to the independent sector.

  • Comment

    Data protection in the NHS - a ticking time bomb?

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    The health service's procedures for protecting confidential data are worryingly inadequate, argue Sven Putnis and Andrew Bircher

  • News

    Top-up payment review highlights NHS bodies' worries

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Responses to the review of co-payments have revealed the extent of uncertainty about the way forward for the NHS on top-ups.

  • Leader

    HSJ bloggers promise the insider's view

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    This week this website plunges into the blogosphere. Five readers are charting their highs and lows, frustrations and triumphs working in the health service.

  • News

    Bill Moyes keen to see teaching foundations

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes is urging more teaching hospitals to become foundation trusts in 2009.

  • Leader

    Trusts survey the wreckage as PFI hospitals begin to crumble

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Arcane accountancy rules are in danger of costing the NHS control of some of its buildings. As HSJ reveals this week, the Treasury's decision to adopt new international accountancy standards is pushing trusts with private finance initiative debts to consider hiving off their estate to charities.

  • News

    PFI plan could keep debts off NHS trusts' balance sheets

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    NHS trusts may hand their private finance initiative hospitals over to specially created charities to avoid reporting PFI debts on their balance sheets, HSJ has learned.The controversial plans would involve trusts ceding control of the hospitals to a third party.

  • News

    Audit sample 'was misleading'

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Your point that up to £1bn of bills sent by trusts to primary care trusts could be incorrect is misleading.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Get happy: the secret to a healthy old age

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    There is clear evidence older people benefit from preventive healthcare. For the fulfilled old age that people want, services must spot depression early and support good diet and mobility

  • News

    Drug addiction services hit by unrealistic targets

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Unrealistic targets to get more drug addicts into treatment are causing the quality of services to plummet, psychiatrists are warning.

  • News

    Accountancy firms win PCT board roles

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Three of the 'big four' accountancy firms have been selected to improve primary care trust boards' skills.KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young are all leading consortiums that have made successful bids to be on the Department of Health's new PCT board development framework.

  • News

    Fujitsu may bring £700m action over IT deal

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has refused to comment on reports that former national IT programme contractor Fujitsu is considering suing over the business it lost when its contract was terminated in March.

  • News

    £1.75bn NHS surplus predicted

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    The NHS is set to finish this financial year with a £1.75bn surplus. The projection, based on estimates from the three months since April, is equivalent to just over 2 per cent of NHS revenue funding this year.

  • News

    Government to underwrite hospital trusts' assets

    2008-09-03T10:00:00Z

    The government is to underwrite hospital trusts' assets to prevent them going bust and ending up in court.HSJ has learned that the Department of Health is to issue a consultation paper this month that rules out insolvency for trusts that are failing financially.

  • Comment

    Gay Lee on the social care debate

    2008-09-03T09:00:00Z

    Nurses and social workers know it is impossible to tell where social care ends and healthcare begins. Yet they waste time, effort and money trying to prise them apart - because government policy says they must.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS work experience: a crucial stepping stone

    2008-09-02T09:00:00Z

    In the second in our series of work experience diaries, we follow Lyndon, who spent a week at Southampton General Hospital two years ago

  • HSJ Partners

    Building skills in the healthcare workforce

    2008-09-02T09:00:00Z

    Skills for Health offers a range of services to healthcare leaders to improve the quality of their workforce's skills. John Rogers offers guidance on the tools available

  • Comment

    Amanda Doyle on the trouble with patient choice

    2008-09-02T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi, in his next stage review, talks a lot about choice, and why not? Greater choice of healthcare provider is, undoubtedly, a good thing.