All Health Service Journal articles in 6 December 2007 – Page 2

  • News

    Johnson will choose Care Quality Commission chief

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The Conservatives have questioned why appointments to the new super-regulator will be made by the government instead of the NHS Appointments Commission.

  • News

    Home care push for cancer patients

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    Cancer patients will spend less time in hospital and more will be treated at home or by community services under a five-year vision to improve cancer care.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: cancer strategy

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The furore over party funding squeezed most health coverage out last week, but it made a return to the headlines as the government briefed newspapers on its new cancer strategy.

  • News

    Monitor tracks Peterborough waiting time breaches

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals foundation trust has confirmed that it is being kept under close watch by Monitor.

  • News

    Stroke victims will get immediate brain scan

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    Stroke victims will get a brain scan within an hour under a new 10-year government strategy to improve survival rates.

  • News

    Plunging waiting times reopen dispute over clinical benefits

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The government's focus on cutting waiting lists can lead to resources being drained away from treatments for those in the greatest medical need, academics have claimed.This week the Healthcare Commission praised NHS organisations for 'genuinely dramatic' improvements in waiting times. But research from the Royal Society of Ophthalmologists has found ...

  • News

    Trusts hit back over budget surpluses

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    NHS organisations predicting large underspends have defended themselves following Alan Johnson’s suggestion that large surpluses are ‘unreasonable’.

  • News

    PCT annual health checks may include green targets

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts' green credentials could be assessed as part of their annual health check from next year. It follows an Audit Commission consultation on how PCTs' annual performance is to be rated.

  • Comment

    Michael White on Alan Johnson

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    I don't know where it came from but in the past few days we've started reading in the papers that Gordon Brown may not last the course. What's more, health secretary Alan Johnson may be the man to take over.

  • News

    Mental health advocacy services delayed six months

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    Advocacy services for mental health patients subject to community treatment orders are not expected to be introduced until six months after the orders are brought in.

  • News

    Polyclinic plans will face local opposition warns Darzi adviser

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    Plans for new polyclinics will meet stiff local opposition, a primary care adviser to Lord Darzi's health service review has warned.

  • News

    Learning difficulties report slates poor care and lack of activities

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission has published a damning report into the standard of residential care the NHS and private sector provide to people with learning difficulties.

  • News

    Waiting times: early runners set to be first past 18-week post

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The 13 'early achiever' trusts are on the final straight of the 18-week referral to treatment target, although some have yet to clear the last hurdle. Alison Moore reports on efforts to eliminate waiting list backlogs as the rest of the field looks on

  • News

    £170k pay-off for chief who left £36m deficit

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The outgoing chief executive of a trust facing a £36m deficit left with a £170,000 pay-off.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS Employers submits pay review evidence

    2007-12-05T09:00:00Z

    NHS Employers has submitted evidence for the 2008 pay round to the doctors' and dentists' review body and the NHS pay review body. We have recommended a pay uplift of up to 2 per cent, which would be affordable for organisations in light of other cost pressures and the need ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Nurses consultations launched

    2007-12-05T09:00:00Z

    NHS Employers has welcomed the launch of consultations into pre- and post-registration nursing training as an opportunity to explore key issues regarding nurse education and how nurses work in the NHS.

  • Comment

    Building sustainability in the NHS estate

    2007-12-05T09:00:00Z

    Lorraine Brayford argues that sustainability should be a priority in healthcare design and recognises those already working to deliver sustainable healthcare buildings for the future

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Agreement to modernise salaried dentists' contracts

    2007-12-05T09:00:00Z

    NHS Employers has agreed to proposals to modernise salaried dentists' contracts with the British Dental Association. The joint proposals have been put to the Department of Health, which has given its authorisation.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Managing sickness absence and ill-health retirement in the NHS

    2007-12-05T09:00:00Z

    Despite the progress that has been made in tackling levels of sickness absence in the NHS over the past decade, more remains to be done, as Jeremy Orr explains

  • News

    psych nib

    2007-12-04T13:22:07Z

    Most primary care trusts see psychological therapies as unimportant, according to a report by the Artemis Trust. The charity has carried out a survey of the provision of psychological therapy services in primary care, which found that PCTs have a 'very poor picture' of what services were being provided. It ...