Acute Care – Page 468
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Dr Marc Farr on understanding preventable injury
In February, the National Audit Office called the number of accidental injuries across the country a 'disgrace', with 2 million children a year visiting accident and emergency due to an accident.
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Barometer acute trusts March 2007
There was a late surge in confidence at the end of February about reaching financial break-even or surplus, according to the latest Barometer survey of acute trust chief executives.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: Did the extra money go on new staff?
A new analysis of the reason for and distribution of NHS deficits published by the Department of Health, Explaining NHS Deficits, contains an interesting analysis of what the extra funding from 2000-04 was spent on. The answer, apparently, is that nearly 80 per cent was consumed by the costs of ...
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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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CommentBrown's equality drive must begin at birth
More low-weight babies are born in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. This should be at the front of the next prime minister’s mind as he strives to give every child an equal chance, says Louise Bamfield
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Noel Plumridge on the non-exec conundrum
'How can one challenge yet remain part of the team? That's the non-executive dilemma'
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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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Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on going back to the floor
There's often no holding back. I got short shrift once from the cardiac nurses over agency staff policy.
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Media Watch
'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'
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HSJ Knowledge
International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'
In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports
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Media Watch
The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.
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Media Watch
Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.
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Media Watch
'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'
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Media Watch
'The Daily Express claimed nurses were 'close to working to rule', saying: 'The move comes after nurses in England were denied the full 2.5 per cent pay rise given to colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for doing exactly the same work''
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Media Watch
'As junior doctors struggle to find work The Sunday Times claimed that the Department of Health survey on GP workload would show that family doctors were earning more and working less'
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Simon Stevens on the great pbc debate
PBC is desirable but sadly not workable as a universal mechanism. It wasn't in the 1990s, and it isn't now
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Interim chair named for 'perilous' Yorkshire trust
An embattled Yorkshire trust has appointed an interim chair after its former chair was sacked and two directors resigned in December.
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HSJ Knowledge
Special report on ISTCs: Opportunity knocks
Independent sector involvement in the NHS has sparked fierce criticism. But consultants Andy Mullins and colleagues argue that it will be a catalyst for the innovation needed to ensure the long-term survival of the service