All Health Service Journal articles in 8 May 2008 – Page 2
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News
Community services tariff opens way to private provision
The Department of Health is to develop a tariff for community services - paving the way for foundation trusts and the private sector to offer services until now provided by primary care trusts.
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News
Community foundation trust challenges
As your article on the NHS Confederation report on aspirant community foundation trusts acknowledges, the move towards this status is challenging, writes David Stout
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Leader
Darzi review kicks central control out of the frame
Tomorrow junior health minister Lord Darzi releases another part of his next stage review. It demonstrates some deft political footwork.
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News
David Cameron's praise for joined-up GPs
It was reassuring to hear a politician praise the work of GPs and acknowledge the core values of general practice: the unique relationship between GP and patient; integrated, continuous care and lifelong care, writes Steve Field
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News
Olympics sport medicine centre may not be built
A national sports medicine centre at the heart of plans for a lasting health legacy from the 2012 Olympics may never be built, HSJ has learned.
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News
Channing Wheeler's plans for market end rumours of commercial break
Reports of the demise of private sector involvement in the NHS last year were premature, as Department of Health commercial director Channing Wheeler is developing the tools to allow local managers to turn the service into a market. He talks to Sally Gainsbury
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News
Darzi polyclinic proposals branded 'pie in the sky'
Lord Darzi’s London blueprint has been described as ‘pie in the sky’ after a three-month consultation.
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News
Barbara Young to chair Care Quality Commission
The proposed chair of the new super-regulator has been welcomed as an 'inspirational' leader. Baroness Barbara Young, currently the Environment Agency chief executive, has been named as the Department of Health's preferred candidate to chair the shadow Care Quality Commission.
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News
Health managers seek clarity on PCT assets
Health managers are calling for clarity on how primary care trusts should manage their assets when separating commissioner and provider functions.
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HSJ KnowledgeChild obesity worst in deprived areas
Concerns about childhood obesity led to the introduction of the national child measurement programme in England two years ago. The programme is now starting to yield important insights.
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News
Foundation trust directors earning up to 25 per cent more
Foundation trust finance directors are earning 16 per cent more than their non-foundation trust counterparts, according to a survey that adds to evidence of a growing 'pay gap'.
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Comment
Aleix Bacardit on palliative care and place of death
The publication of the cancer reform strategy is a sign of the government's commitment to developing world class cancer services, but questions remain over using place of death to inform management decisions.
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HSJ Knowledge
Tips for managers on supporting staff
Managers who are engaged with their staff create well-being and better care. Margaret Bradley and Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe explain how to achieve this
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Comment
David Lee on mental health heroes
As every good HSJ reader knows, good management is not about heroics or donning a Superman costume. Good management in mental health is about supporting local innovation and frontline service improvements.
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HSJ Knowledge
Dealing with a public relations crisis
In the wake of the missing Revenue and Customs data, Sefton PCT found itself at the centre of a data security scandal. Ingrid Torjesen finds out how to handle a crisis
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HSJ Partners
Information Centre report looks at GP pay
The Information Centre for health and social care has published figures that look at the changes in family doctors' pay over time, as well as how pay varies according to factors such as a GP's age and the number of partners in a practice.
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HSJ Partners
Information Centre takes over NHS central register
Responsibility for the NHS central register, which contains nearly 150 million patient registration records, transferred from the Office of National Statistics to the Information Centre for health and social care on 1 April, further establishing the Information Centre as England's primary resource for authoritative health and social care information.
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HSJ Partners
Census shows rise in NHS clinical staff
More doctors and nurses are working for the NHS, but the number of support staff has fallen, a workforce census by the Information Centre for health and social care has shown.
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HSJ Knowledge
A case for integrated mental healthcare
A patient's experience is not fragmented, discontinuous and segregated so why is their treatment? Samantha Allen and Heather Hurford argue for integrated care
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health history: taking over the asylum
In our latest feature marking the NHS’s 60th anniversary, Mark Gould charts the journey from Victorian asylums to the national service framework and recent backward steps
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