All Health Service Journal articles in 6 August 2009 – Page 2
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NewsCall to extend clinical outcome data on choose and book
The Department of Health’s GP czar David Colin-Thomé has called for clinical outcome data to be included in the NHS’s electronic booking system choose and book.
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NewsFinancial fallout for London trusts from medical school redundancies
Four London hospital trusts could be hit with a bigger bill for academic staff due to a massive savings drive at Imperial College faculty of medicine.
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NewsPCTs urged to chase mental health value
Patchy spending on adult mental health services around the country has prompted calls for commissioners to tackle inequalities and ensure they are getting value for money.
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News‘Unprecedented’ review by PCT finds progress after Mid Staffs scandal
South Staffordshire primary care trust has published what it calls an “unprecedented” review of care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, after installing its own staff to check on standards.
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NewsMatching best PCT performers could cut NHS costs by 20pc
The NHS could make savings of up to 20 per cent if all primary care trusts spent as efficiently as the best, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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CommentMedia Watch: GP access and swine flu panic
Proof that the Department of Health’s drive to improve GP access was working arrived from an unlikely source this week.
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CommentJon Restell on achieving race equality in the NHS
A few weeks ago, I watched a documentary about the Motown tour of the UK in 1965.
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CommentAlan Maryon-Davis on NHS carbon cutting
Chill winds in the funding forecast are no excuse to let go of the NHS’s energy saving and waste reduction targets - they just add to the urgency to act now
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NewsAmbulance services: urgent attention for non-emergency care
Complex forces at work in urgent care mean too many costly ambulance trips are being taken by non-emergency patients. Dave West analyses the figures and looks at the explanations
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CommentYour Humble Servant attends an NHS disciplinary appeal hearing
‘Between them they will have conspired to identify an incompetent who needs to be dispatched, and then utterly fail to put together a case, identify relevant evidence, or present it in a way that can land a caress, let alone a punch, on the miscreant’s credibility’
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NewsDH scraps deadline for PCT provider arm strategies
The Department of Health has scrapped its centrally set deadline for primary care trusts to create provider arm strategies. It comes amid fears of PCTs obsessed by organisational structure making poor decisions.
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NewsDH data shows no link between NHS spending and patient outcomes
There is no clear relationship between primary care trust spending on killer diseases and outcomes for patients, the latest data from the Department of Health suggests.
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NewsBill Moyes blames MPs over FT de-authorisation row
Bill Moyes, outgoing head of the foundation trust regulator Monitor, has blamed MPs’ ignorance for the recent fall-out between foundations and the Department of Health.
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NewsNHS calls on retired staff to help win swine flu fight
The NHS is calling on thousands of retired doctors, nurses and other staff to work if the swine flu pandemic gets worse.
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NewsQuality and outcomes framework: GP incentives harm care quality
The quality of care provided by GPs has decreased for some conditions where they do not receive performance related pay, a study has found.
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CommunityClimate change confusion
Civil servants are notorious sticklers for detail, but one glaring blooper somehow made it past Whitehall quality control.
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Community
Chlamydia cinema
After NHS Hull controversially bought a yacht as part of a youth development scheme, it appears other primary care trusts have come up with equally innovative approaches to improving public health. Or, as the Daily Mail put it, they have taken the opportunity “to blow taxpayers’ money in more imaginative ...
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Leader
Panicky response to Mid Staffs scandal could erode FT freedoms
The government is threatening the independence of foundation trusts.
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NewsFirst NICE quality standards will include stroke
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to create its first quality standards on stroke, dementia, neonatal care and venous thromboembolism.
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CommunityLookey-likey: swine flu and the Girl Guides
The swine flu logo used by junior doctors’ pressure group Remedy UK would not be out of place on the front cover of a Stephen King novel.
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