All Health Service Journal articles in 5 June 2008 – Page 3

  • Leader

    DH must step in to protect the vulnerable

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    The government needs to rethink its plan to exclude sectioned mental health patients from the protection of the Corporate Manslaughter Act for up to five years.

  • News

    Welsh merger trust on the rocks say former directors

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    Five former non-executive directors have gone public with their fears for the future of a newly merged Welsh trust. They claim Hywel Dda trust, which serves three counties in south west and west Wales, is floundering because the organisation launched without a proper leadership team in place.

  • Leader

    Monitor survey shows distance still to travel on FT governance

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    A survey of foundation trust governors by regulator Monitor reveals the distance still to travel to develop effective governance.

  • News

    Patient records at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    The figures quoted for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals foundation trust in your article 'Missing: the notes of more than a million outpatients' are misleading, writes Jackie France

  • News

    Private providers and human rights

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    You report that a question mark remains over whether private providers in the NHS are subject to the Human Rights Act. Any attempts to narrow the scope of the act need to be robustly challenged, because this would leave people vulnerable to abuse, writes Jean Candler

  • Comment

    Michael White on private vs public

    2008-06-05T09:00:00Z

    The detail I am most likely to remember from this week's events is the revelation that when Harold Macmillan was chancellor in 1956 he suppressed evidence of the link between cancer and smoking.

  • News

    Darzi review: East Midlands opts for local focus

    2008-06-05T14:50:00Z

    NHS East Midlands has focused on localism in its regional Darzi vision.The strategic health authority said it had divided its patch into smaller areas to make sure its proposals reflect the diversity of its residents.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Understanding the new NHS standard contract for acute services

    2008-06-06T09:00:00Z

    A new contract has tightened the rules governing interactions between acute care providers and commissioners. Johanne Smith explains the new requirements

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Bringing a troubled PCT back from the brink

    2008-06-06T09:00:00Z

    After forming from smaller trusts in 2006, Cambridge PCT found it owed £70m and needed to make some serious changes to avoid disaster. Gail Newmarch explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Change of focus for Primary Care Contracting

    2008-06-06T09:00:00Z

    After NHS Primary Care Contracting lost its national funding, it had to ask each primary care trust to subscribe to its services. Despite positive feedback on its performance, it had to adopt a more practical focus to win support, say Helen Northall and Roy Greenhalgh

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Suspending trust chairs and non-executives

    2008-06-06T09:00:00Z

    New legislation coming into force this month gives the Appointments Commission the power to suspend trust chairs and non-executives. However, suspension is unlikely to occur often, as Janice Scanlan explains

  • Comment

    Paul Jennings on listening to staff

    2008-06-06T09:00:00Z

    Improving communication with staff took Walsall Teaching primary care trust from the bottom 10 per cent to the top 10 per cent in the national staff survey