Acute Care – Page 412
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Panel saves services at Horton Hospital
The independent reconfiguration panel has advised the health secretary to reject Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust's proposals to downgrade paediatric, gynaecological and obstetric services at Horton Hospital because it would not provide an accessible or improved service for local people.
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Progress, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder
The very latest view of progress with the national IT strategy is contained in the recently published document Supporting Transformation - the first of what promises to be an annual statement of programme benefits.Naturally enough this report accentuates the positive and a quick superficial read will give the intended impression ...
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Charing Cross
Until recently the Accident and Emergency department at Charing Cross Hospital encountered a number of problems when recording patient data. The problem wasn’t clinical, but administrative. Nurses were inputting and displaying patient information in two separate places - on a pen and ink manual whiteboard that was regularly updated throughout ...
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Lyn Whitfield on
When you’re in a hole, stop digging. It’s a well known maxim, but one the government seems completely incapable of applying to ID cards.Home secretary Jacqui Smith had the spade out again last month [subs March], when she re-launched the much criticised scheme for the umpteenth time.The BBC loyally reported ...
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Alison Irving on life after the health service
A long, fulfilling career in the NHS can prepare you for things you never thought possible, as one former manager explains
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Unlawful killing: how trusts can prepare for an inquiry
With new corporate manslaughter laws soon coming into force, trusts need to ensure they know how to prepare for an inquest. Laura Hale outlines the essentials
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DH response to Monitor under wraps
The Department of Health has refused to release correspondence to Monitor regarding its legal dispute over the cap on income from private patients.
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Lift-off for air ambulances as government comes calling
The NHS is suddenly showing a lot of interest in buying into air ambulances. So are these charity services ready to do business? Alison Moore reports
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Foundation trusts query accounting changes
Foundation trusts have raised concerns that forthcoming changes to accounting rules could undermine efforts to get hospitals to focus on where they make and lose money.
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Auditors concerned over Hinchingbrooke's £38.7m deficit
Auditors for Hinchingbrooke Health Care trust have raised 'serious concerns' over its projected £38.7m deficit for 2007-08, as the trust's savings plans are not sufficient to cover it.
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security
The nation’s headline writers did not hold back when HM Revenue and Customs was forced to admit that it had lost the confidential details of every child benefit claimant in the country.Words like “shocking” and “fiasco” featured above the first stories about how the information had vanished after a “junior ...
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Putting life into NHS teaching
Adopting new approaches to training in the NHS could benefit staff and patients, argues Nick Napper
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Raj Persaud on getting blood out of a stone
Management is all too often about persuasion; powerful managers are better at persuading those in the workplace to pursue helpful change, while less competent managers are not so effective at overcoming resistance.
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Médecins Sans Frontières?
There are conflicting approaches to providing NHS care to those not entitled to it, and the charity Médecins du Monde is at the front line of the battle. Mark Gould reports
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Fresh thinking on problem drinking
Gillian Gale, Oliver Hill and Lucio Cicolecchia explain a twin strategy that aims to relieve some of the major pressures caused by alcohol abuse
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Treasury puts off plan to move PFI schemes on balance sheet
The Treasury has given the NHS a year's stay of execution over changes to accountancy rules with major implications for private finance initiative schemes. The move to international financial reporting standards was due to be implemented across the public sector from this April.
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Can senior managers really make a difference?
Do successful NHS managers have skill or luck to thank? Blair McPherson takes a closer look at what really determines which organisations sink and which swim
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Kate Silvester on lean or just mean
Managing a system where all patients get their first definitive treatment within 18 weeks of GP referral will sort the mean from the lean thinkers.
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Ken Jarrold on taking a look in the mirror
Understanding ourselves and other people is one of the most important management skills and is very useful in building and sustaining a productive and satisfying working life. Some people have natural self-awareness and empathy; most of us have to work at it.
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Andrew Castle on innovations in patient safety
Standardising clinical practice can go a long way towards improving patient safety, as one innovative programme in the US has shown. Andrew Castle explains