All Health Service Journal articles in 6 October 2011 – Page 2
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News
Supply chain faces challenges on two fronts over legal concerns
The procurement service for the NHS is facing challenges on two fronts, HSJ can reveal, amid claims some of its frameworks could put trusts at risk of legal action.
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Comment
Michael White: the search for Tory health debate beyond the fringe
Before the Tory faithful arrived in Manchester for their 2011 conference, a veteran party figure predicted the NHS would not feature much, despite the turbulence behind the Health Bill and the frantic applause lines which Ed Miliband effortlessly generated in the service’s defence a week earlier in Liverpool.
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Comment
Tide turning on transparency in the South
The government’s drive for a more open public sector does not sit easily with its “foundation trust or bust” policy, which gives FTs more say over the information they publish and whether their boards meet in public.
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Comment
'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'
The turnaround of one factory into an efficient, clean, collaborative and effective faciility should shame healthcare organisations into doing more to make sure sustainability in the NHS becomes less an ideal and more a way of working, writes Sir John Oldham.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: in theory, the reality could be even worse
Let us start, as we hacks are so fond of doing, with the bad news. The Department of Health’s first quarterly report for 2011-12 reveals primary care trusts are planning to take savings worth £3.1bn out of acute care this financial year alone.
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News
Public health engagement group to steer DH policy
An engagement team has been set up to road test government policy on public health over the coming months.
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Comment
Why public health practice must be integrated into commissioning
Whatever form the new NHS commissioning landscape takes, public health practice needs to be an integral part of it. A discussion is needed as to how it fits in to the structure, write Julie Sin, Su Sethi and Alison Rylands.
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News
'No evidence' that collaborative procurement lowers prices, FT Network says
The Foundation Trust Network has published a study which it says found “no evidence” that collaborative purchasing leads to lower prices for medical supplies.
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Comment
Change plans grind to a halt in the North West
Change takes forever in the NHS. So long, sometimes, that by the time your plan is finally agreed it is out of date, or there are different people in charge and they want to develop a new plan.
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HSJ Knowledge
The key factors behind a successful implementation of telehealth services
Telehealth can undoubtedly make a difference to the delivery of healthcare services, but only with a successful implementation, as Mark Ayton explains.
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HSJ Knowledge
How coaching can be an antidote to organisational 'groupthink'
Coaching means different things to different people, but a significant element is the ability to listen, and to provide a space that has the potential to challenge the illusion and rhetoric which dominates organisations, and so disempower group “norms”, says Dr Angélique du Toit.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: healthy fun for all the NHS family
What will be this year’s Christmas stocking must have: Mid Staffs Cluedo, PFI Monopoly or Liberating the NHS Scrabble?
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Comment
Media Watch: all of NHS life appears in the papers
Most types of health professional featured in the media this week, though some more positively than others.
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News
Strike ballot 'extraordinarily difficult' for managers, admits MiP
Managers in Partnership has written to members explaining the “extraordinarily difficult” decision to ballot for strike action over pensions changes.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why accident prevention is a major policy issue for public health
The theory goes that prevention of accidents is better, and cheaper, than the cure. Tom Mullarkey argues that it’s now time for public health strategy to put this theory into practice.
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HSJ Local
Shrewsbury and Telford reducing nursing support
WORKFOCE: The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust is reducing the level of nursing support in wards in an attempt to save £110,000 a month.
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HSJ Local
DH analysing big 18 weeks backlog at Shrewsbury and Telford
PERFORMANCE: Only 68 per cent of patients are being treated within 18 weeks of referral to the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, against a target of 90 per cent.
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HSJ Local
New hospital opens as old one closes in West Kent
STRUCTURE: The new Tunbridge Wells Hospital was fully opened to patients on 21 September.
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HSJ Local
£11.9m savings still short of target for South West Essex
FINANCE: South West Essex primary care trust made £11.9m of savings in the first four months of the financial year, or 92 per cent of their planned savings for the year to date, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Referral management failing to deliver savings in South East Essex
FINANCE: All five clinical commissioning groups in South East Essex are failing to meet referral management savings targets, causing NHS South East Essex to fall behind in its savings plans, according to board papers.