All Health Service Journal articles in 5 February 2009 – Page 3

  • News

    Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk

    2009-02-05T01:00:00Z

    The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.

  • News

    Rose Gibb's 'irrational' pay-off went unchecked

    2009-02-05T01:00:00Z

    NHS South East Coast and the Department of Health were aware a pay-off was under discussion with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb - but they failed to intervene to stop it from being signed, a court heard last week.

  • News

    Health watchdog handover is on 'red risk'

    2009-02-05T01:00:00Z

    Crucial staffing and financial decisions regarding the handover from the Healthcare Commission to the Care Quality Commission are still unresolved just two months before the new body takes over.

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    HSJ Knowledge

    Why NICE values some patients' lives more

    2009-02-05T01:00:00Z

    Mike Richards’ review of what to do about top-ups seems to reaffirm the line that the NHS should not subsidise private consumption of healthcare.

  • News

    Mixed ward target worries

    2009-02-05T01:00:00Z

    Huge uncertainty exists over whether trusts will be able to comply with health secretary Alan Johnson's new diktat on mixed sex accommodation.

  • Leader

    NHS has a role in weathering the recession

    2009-02-05T01:00:00Z

    As the country's biggest employer and a tenth of the economy, the NHS has an major role to play in helping us all weather the recession.

  • News

    West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement

    2009-02-06T10:09:00Z

    West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations.

  • News

    NHS managers call for clinical training overhaul

    2009-02-06T11:09:00Z

    Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.

  • News

    Conservatives highlight NHS litigation cost increase

    2009-02-06T11:23:00Z

    The government has admitted that NHS negligence premiums will nearly double to £713m in the next financial year.

  • News

    Measles cases rise to record high

    2009-02-06T11:25:00Z

    Last year saw the highest number of measles cases in England and Wales since records began, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.

  • News

    NHS PROMs results ready by November

    2009-02-06T11:31:00Z

    Hospitals will be publicly rated by patients' reports of their care before the end of the year.

  • Blogs

    Dr Anna Donald

    2009-02-06T11:59:00Z

    HSJ has learned of the sad death of Dr Anna Donald. Dr Donald, who died in Sydney Australia on 1 February, was formerly a co-founder of the healthcare information provider Bazian and an HSJ columnist.

  • Comment

    Neil Goodwin on managing ambition in the NHS

    2009-02-09T09:00:00Z

    NHS managers need to be aware of the benefits and dangers of personal ambition

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The homeless and health

    2009-02-09T09:00:00Z

    Initiatives to wrestle with the health consequences of homelessness are deprived of a coherent national strategy, say campaigners. Mark Gould hears the growing calls for the NHS to take the lead

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS career coaching: take control

    2009-03-02T09:00:00Z

    Feeling downtrodden after a bruising divorce and unappreciated at work, one manager turned to coach Dorothy Larios to regain control of her life