All Acute care articles – Page 471
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News
Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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Comment
Data briefing: How length of stay varies by SHA area
There is growing demand for new and innovative indicators to measure variations in performance between acute trusts. Length of stay measures include indicators of excess bed days, analysis over time and giving lengths of stay for specific diagnoses or procedures.
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News
Hewitt has no 'vested interest' in approving reconfigurations
Patricia Hewitt does not have a 'vested political interest' in settling reconfiguration rows in favour of trusts, the health minister responsible for patient involvement has insisted.
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Foundation trust defers application
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has deferred its foundation trust application because of continuing uncertainty over the payment by results tariff for specialist services.
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Comment
John Appleby: New thinking on health variations
Arguments about what we get for our billions of NHS pounds rumble on. The Department of Health's latest analysis - noted here last month - claims the extra billions have essentially been spent on extra staff. We could take it to be a good thing - if the job of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Stronger links between annual health check and peer review
Links between peer review and the annual health check are to be strengthened, following discussions between the Health Commission and Information Centre.
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News
Anna Donald on doctors' motives
'The NHS needs doctors firing on all cylinders, not retreating to their duvets'
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Anna Donald on consumer information
'Patients must indeed be patient. The term 'patient-led' invites disbelief that patients are going to lead the NHS'
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Comment
Anna Donald on lessons from Australia
'The NHS can't avoid political controversy, because what it does is too important, complex, and subject to debate'
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Comment
Anna Donald on turning cogs in a blancmange
'Most doctors would struggle to conceive of a hospital in anything other than descriptive terms'
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News
United Lincolnshire trust non-execs angry at 'shoddy' treatment
Two non-executive directors have spoken out after they and five others resigned from a trust board - leaving just the chair and executive members in place.
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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HSJ Knowledge
Andy Burnham to launch Information Centre business plan
Andy Burnham, minister of state for delivery and reform, will be the keynote speaker at the launch of the Information Centre for health and social care's business plan 2007/08 and information strategy.
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News
News analysis Trusts feel impact as PFI and payment by results collide
Cash-strapped trusts locked into expensive and inflexible PFI deals have always faced particular challenges. But with payment by results making no allowance for the extra costs they face, their future is looking bleak indeed. Alison Moore reports
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Comment
Simon Stevens on the lost art of analysis
'Explaining NHS Deficits detonates many of the most powerful urban myths surrounding the NHS'.
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News
News analysis: Sir Ian says intervene early and take tough decisions
So the deficit is smaller than the critics suggested, but NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers admits the service is not where he wants it to be. And he tells Nick Edwards that the longer trusts leave it to get back on track financially, the harder it will be
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Warning over overseas ambulance call centres
The chair of the Commons health select committee has raised fears that arguments in support of reconfiguration could lead to ambulance control centres being moved abroad.
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Comment
Pick-and-mix NHS will serve all customers
Having the right people involved in the right discussions is the key to keeping the NHS in check, says Anna Coote, while Jessica Crowe argues for a wide form of accountability that leaves no voice unheard
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News
Nursing chief is good and bad cop all in one
The Royal College of Nursing's general secretary, Peter Carter,.has altered its stance on reconfiguration, plurality and the wisdom of heckling Hewitt. But he promises fierce opposition to poor management and short-term cuts