All Acute care articles – Page 409
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News
Cornwall's one-site cancer plans run aground
A primary care trust's aim to centralise specialised cancer services has been derailed by the council's overview and scrutiny committee, which wants a full public consultation.
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Leader
Venomous rhetoric blocks better services
The row in Cornwall over plans to move a cancer service out of the county encapsulates the struggles primary care trust managers face when trying to improve services.
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News
West Sussex refers reconfiguration decision to health secretary
Major changes to hospitals in West Sussex have been referred to the health secretary after councillors said there was 'insufficient clarity' about which services would be provided where.
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No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths
No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...
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Comment
Dave Flinton on attracting students to radiography
The Department of Health must work closer with universities if the aims of its new cancer plan are to be achieved.
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HSJ Knowledge
No success for successors in equal pay claims
A ruling that a woman's successor, in the same job, was a valid comparator for an equal pay claim has been overturned. Rachel Heenan and Daniella McGuigan explain the implications
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Comment
Julia Riley on care of the dying
The Department of Health's end of life care strategy published earlier this month pledged to allow more people with terminal illnesses to choose where they die. Clinicians at the Royal Marsden have made this possible through a pilot scheme
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Supplements
Health inequalities: the human workshop
It is unacceptable that in the first decade of the 21st century, the length of a person's life is still determined by where they were born.
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News
Welsh trusts successful in call for their own abolition
NHS trusts in Wales have succeeded in their unanimous push to bring about their own demise.
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News
Abolition of consultant and GP contracts is a 'logical' move
Abolishing consultant and GP contracts will be the 'logical conclusion' of successful integrated care organisations, NHS director general for commissioning Mark Britnell has claimed.
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News
NICE calls for quicker access to specialist stroke treatment
Commissioners and providers should ensure all patients with a suspected stroke are admitted as quickly as possible to an acute stroke unit.
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Comment
Michael White on palliative care
Eleven years ago a good friend died of lung cancer in the palliative ward of a London hospital. Since the operation(s) had gone wrong and he was only 62, it wasn't ideal.
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Leader
Opening the door to clinical innovation
The medical world is looking to managers and surgeons to unlock the benefits of clinical innovation - and training is again the key.
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News
Surgery president pushes for faster spread of innovation
Tackling variations in the quality of surgical teams would save more lives than investing in new drugs, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons has claimed.
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News
Survey finds foundation trusts' hidden private income
Foundation trusts earned up to £70m more income from private patients last year than their accounts show, a confidential report for the regulator Monitor suggests.
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SHA chief gets top job at Care Quality Commission
Cynthia Bower is to be appointed as the chief executive of the Care Quality Commission.Ms Bower, the chief executive of West Midlands strategic health authority, is expected to be confirmed as the chief executive imminently, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS work experience: getting on board
Work experience is a valuable way of encouraging people to consider a career in the NHS. In the first of a series of work experience diaries, we meet Cara, aged 17, a work experience student at Southampton General Hospital's radiography department
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on looking after chief executives
It is 30 years since I made my first presentation at a national conference. It was based on the paper I had prepared as part of the Institute of Health Services Management's evidence to the Royal Commission.
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News
Career coaching: put a positive spin on work
Sessions with executive coach Dorothy Larios encouraged one manager to address the demotivators in her working life
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News
Healthcare 100: staff's chance to vote for top employers
Health service staff have the chance to rate their employer in a major new set of awards launched this week.