All Health Service Journal articles in 7 March 2014 – Page 2
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News
Analysis: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
Providers are increasingly willing to use the procurement, patient choice and competition regulations to challenge decisions, experts have stated, after HSJ analysis identified six of the first legal challenges to emerge.
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News
Richards: CQC must improve inspection consistency
The Care Quality Commission must do more to improve the consistency of its judgements, the chief inspector of hospitals has said. He spoke after it emerged a leading London teaching hospital successfully challenged the regulator’s plan to issue it a warning notice.
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Leader
Too many trust challenges will undermine CQC inspections
Regulator is on a learning curve with new regime
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HSJ Partners
CQC hospital ratings – the experimental phase begins
Challenges for the regulator and trusts
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HSJ Partners
Employers that lose at tribunals face a 'quadruple jeopardy'
New law under the Employment Tribunals Act
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News
Ombudsman criticises 'unreasonable and unfair' patient ban
A foundation trust has been ordered to apologise to a patient for wrongly banning her from accessing NHS services and using a template letter to imply she was abusive and violent.
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News
NHS England accuses Monitor of "unpicking" choice and competition framework
A disagreement between NHS England and Monitor appears to be delaying the release of resources to help commissioners navigate choice and competition issues in the NHS, recent board papers reveal.
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News
Large providers dominate clinical senates
HSJ analysis has given the most detailed picture so far of the make-up of clinical senates, revealing the extent of large acute trusts’ influence over the advisory bodies.
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News
HSJ Live 05.03.2014: BMA consultants' leader calls for 'principled' contract negotiations
The Chair of the BMA Consultant Committee calls for contracts to recognise “excessive hours worked”, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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HSJ Knowledge
A closer look at mental health's transformation
What acute care can learn about change from the sector
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News
Nicholson: ‘Not speaking to Mid Staffs relatives my biggest mistake’
Outgoing NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said he “bitterly” regrets not doing more to engage with the families of patients who died as a result of care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
CQC reports Medway emergency department 'in crisis'
A Care Quality Commission inspection report on the emergency department at Medway Maritime Hospital concluded it was “effectively in a crisis situation”.
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Comment
Our health attitudes and policies remain chaotic
Nanny state must hold its nerve on public health
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HSJ Knowledge
Now we must tune up hospitals' underpowered engines
John Drew continues his exploration of hospitals’ uphill struggle at the McKinsey Hospital Institute summit
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News
Labour review: councils must prove "readiness" to take on care of "frail" patients
A report commissioned by Labour on how to bring about integrated care has backed an evolutionary approach to giving health and wellbeing boards the lead role in planning local services.
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News
Moore: Nursing directors should 'over-recruit' by 10pc
Hospital managers should “over-recruit” nursing staff by 10 per cent in order to ensure the best quality care for patients, according to a former nurse who now leads one of the UK’s leading acute trusts.
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