All Acute care articles – Page 382
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Suspended chief executive in limbo as review drags on
A hospital trust that suspended its chief executive in October and began a review into his performance has had to appoint a second interim replacement, as the review overruns by more than two months.John Watkinson was suspended by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust following a critical review of his performance ...
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Stroke awareness campaign to save lives and money
A three year campaign to promote public awareness of stroke symptoms was launched by the Department of Health today.
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Weight loss surgery: who is cut out for it?
Assessment for weight loss surgery - such as gastric bypass or gastric banding - has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton
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NHS PROMs results ready by November
Hospitals will be publicly rated by patients' reports of their care before the end of the year.
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West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement
West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations.
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Mixed ward target worries
Huge uncertainty exists over whether trusts will be able to comply with health secretary Alan Johnson's new diktat on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NICE values some patients' lives more
Mike Richards’ review of what to do about top-ups seems to reaffirm the line that the NHS should not subsidise private consumption of healthcare.
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Rose Gibb's 'irrational' pay-off went unchecked
NHS South East Coast and the Department of Health were aware a pay-off was under discussion with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb - but they failed to intervene to stop it from being signed, a court heard last week.
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Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk
The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.
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Rose Gibb: 'I was hounded, victimised, demonised'
Rose Gibb accused health secretary Alan Johnson of 'hounding' her after the Healthcare Commission published its critical report.
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Sophia Christie on healthcare's false economy
Just in case we thought Keynesian economics might protect us from the credit crunch, Nick Timmins of the Financial Times used his keynote presentation at an anniversary event for world class commissioning to demonstrate that we will be highly unlikely to enjoy growth reaching 3 per cent by 2011.
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King College foundation trust chief welcomes targets
Bureaucracy and targets are no greater in the NHS than in the private sector, King's College foundation trust's new chief executive Tim Smart has insisted.
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MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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NICE lacks GP input says NHS Alliance
The NHS Alliance has given muted approval to Department of Health proposals to change the quality and outcomes framework GP bonus scheme.
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Row brews as DH rejects blood clots measure
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has written to health secretary Alan Johnson to protest after the Department of Health rejected proposals aimed at reducing deadly blood clots.
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Trust board steps down to make way for FT takeover
The chair and entire non-executive team of a trust have stood down to make way for a takeover by a foundation trust.The Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership trust board took the decision after agreeing there was no prospect of achieving foundation trust status.
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London acute trusts face shake-up as bosses hand in their notice
London's hospital trusts face a massive management shake-up after the departure of four chief executives.Two of the chief executives - Julian Nettel at Barts and the London trust and Tara Donnelly at West Middlesex University Hospital trust - have resigned amid concerns about the performance of their trusts, which have ...
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Snow hits non-urgent hospital services
Hospitals across the country cancelled non-urgent surgery as they coped with staff absences and increased emergency admissions brought on by heavy snow.
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Trusts 'could opt out of working time directive'
The Department of Health has formally announced it wants trusts to be able to opt out of the European working time directive on behalf of junior doctors.
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Rose Gibb faces agonising wait for court's judgement
Rose Gibb faces an agonising wait to hear if she has won her legal battle with former employer Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.At the end of four days of complex proceedings, Mr Justice Treacy said he wanted to reserve judgement on the breach of contract case.