Acute Care – Page 404
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News
Hospital death rates published
Death rates for four hospital procedures will be published by the Department of Health today in a move designed to help patients make more informed choices.
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Healthcare Commission survey highlights maternity failings
The Healthcare Commission is demanding improvements in maternity care after a huge review showed some women are put at risk by shortages of staff, beds and bathrooms.
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Shift in IT policy as trusts told they can develop their own system
The Department of Health has signalled a shift in the national programme for IT that will see it supporting NHS organisations that want to develop their own systems.
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Comment
Richard Gleave on rewards and reprimands
One of the main debates in US healthcare policy is how to financially reward healthcare providers for delivering 'excellent' care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Service improvement: dignity by design
One trust's training programme around respect and sensitivity towards the patient is reaping rewards. Alison Moore explains how it works
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HSJ Knowledge
Can doctors rise to the challenge of leadership?
The NHS needs more clinicians to step up to leadership roles to improve outcomes for patients. But will doctors be able to endure the constant scrutiny and deliver what the service is asking of them, asks Mark Goldman
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HSJ Knowledge
Handling an inquest: a guide for NHS managers
Healthcare organisations need to prepare themselves for the challenges of dealing with an inquest, particularly in light of the Human Rights Act and the forthcoming Coroners Bill. Simon Tait and Barbara Anthony explain
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Comment
Partnership is key to delivering Lord Darzi’s NHS vision
Lord Darzi’s Final Report High Quality Care for All puts quality at the heart of the NHS. His vision can only be achieved on the required scale through new forms of partnership between public, private and third sectors.For healthcare providers, there are some exciting incentives to encourage new service models:As ...
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Will Darzi bring about a renaissance in maternity services?
A number of regional Darzi plans have promised midwife-led units and better information. Daloni Carlisle asks if this vision will become a reality
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Trust ends contract after pay nightmare
University Hospital of North Staffordshire has withdrawn from its contract with a payroll provider after months of mistakes in the pay packets of hundreds of staff.
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Hospitals may lose out in plan to make funds follow student
The shake-up of education and funding for training proposed by Lord Darzi could have a 'major destabilising impact' on established teaching hospitals.
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Darzi quality incentive puts £1bn at stake
Up to £1bn - or 3 per cent - of annual hospital trust income will be contingent on meeting service quality requirements by 2010-11.
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EU law gives patients right to charge for overseas care
The rights of patients to charge the NHS for care they receive abroad will be set out for the first time in a European Commission directive due to be published this week.
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on clinical governance and values
An old friend has just been in touch, having found one of my HSJ columns through Google.
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Darzi turns up heat on clinical leadership and training
Health minister Lord Darzi has put clinical leadership at the centre of his next stage review.
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Leader
Acute's leftovers won't feed public health
At the NHS Confederation conference, Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon offered the heretical view that the policy of tilting NHS spending towards public health is a mistake.
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
I'm now in the East Midlands as chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester. UHL took a hit last year with the termination - rightly - of Pathway, its private finance initiative project.
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Former trust chief suppresses pay details
The former interim chief executive of a hospital trust has stopped it publishing details of his pay.
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Nicholson denies 'swipe' at foundation regulator Monitor
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has played down comments that appeared to criticise the foundation trusts' regulator Monitor.
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Lansley slates DH regionalisation policy
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the Department of Health's attempt to shift performance management down to strategic health authorities.