All Health Service Journal articles in 7 January 2010 – Page 2
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NewsWelsh Assembly wants 'soft' opt-out for organ donors
A “soft” opt-out system of organ donation - where everyone in Wales would be classed as a donor aside from those who opt out or whose close relatives object - is being sought by ministers at the Welsh Assembly.
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NewsSnow-hit ambulance service in 999 plea
An ambulance service has pleaded with people who live in areas badly affected by the snow to only call 999 if there is “a true emergency”.
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NewsMore than 3,000 living organ donors
There are now more than 3,000 approved living organ donors - 2,978 for kidney, 81 for liver and two for lung transplants - according to the Human Tissue Authority.
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NewsTories accuse government over A&E waiting targets
The Conservatives claim to have exposed widespread evidence of gaming to meet the four-hour A&E waiting time target.
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NewsCommissioners need to be ready for surge in population over 85
The number of 85 year olds will increase by a third by 2020, putting pressure on health and social services, researchers said today.
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NewsBasildon and Thurrock making progress on hygiene, says CQC
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital Foundation Trust has made an “encouraging start” to improving hygiene standards, inspectors have found.
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NewsSearch for next Monitor chair to begin again in 2010
The post of Monitor chair is to be re-advertised next year, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsEast of England reaches deal on swine flu vaccine
NHS East of England has become the latest strategic health authority to agree a regional deal with its GPs for delivering swine flu vaccine to the under fives.
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NewsNHS Direct appoints permanent chair
The acting chair of NHS Direct has had her position made permanent after 20 months in the job.
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NewsDemand for veterans PTSD service on the rise
A groundbreaking pilot scheme for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is to continue in the next year if it can secure long-term funding.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to make clinical commissioning work
In Kent, clinicians and managers are working together as teams to concentrate expertise on specific clinical areas
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HSJ KnowledgeTurn around destructive behaviour at work
With cost cutting and competition for resources, it is easy for negative attitudes to prevail and productivity to suffer. That downward workplace spiral can be reversed by following four simple steps, say Phil Bardzil and Shelly Rubinstein
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CommentKen Jarrold: what is the future of NHS regulation?
The row about regulation did not come at a good time for the NHS and it raises some profound questions. Just how likely is it that self assessment will be objective? How many of us have the capacity to see ourselves, our performance and the world around us as it ...
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NewsKnighthoods for top NHS leaders
NHS chief executive David Nicholson, cancer tsar Mike Richards, and NICE chief executive Andrew Dillon have been given knighthoods in the New Year’s honours list.
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NewsConservatives to divert NHS resources to deprived areas
Tory leader David Cameron is to pledge to divert NHS resources to deprived areas at the launch of the Conservative manifesto today.
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NewsBasildon faces legionnaires' probe
Health chiefs are investigating a possible outbreak of legionnaires’ disease at a hospital that was recently under scrutiny for blood splattered equipment and an unusually high patient mortality rate.
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NewsNicola Sturgeon hails NHS capital expenditure
Scottish patients will benefit from health projects given the green light this year, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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NewsDrinking 'an unsustainable burden on the NHS'
Britain’s growing culture of heavy drinking is placing an “unsustainable burden” on the healthcare system, costing the NHS £2.7bn a year, according to a report.
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NewsNorovirus halts surgery at hospitals
The winter vomiting bug norovirus has forced three hospitals in Cornwall to cancel all non-urgent surgical operations.
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HSJ KnowledgeTackling social exclusion: an accessible answer to a huge unmet need
Homelessness, drug or alcohol dependency and poor mental health can combine to exclude people from care but access can be greatly improved, reports Ann Dix
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