Acute Care – Page 471
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Scrutiny committee overruled in Herts
A health scrutiny committee has complained to the health secretary after a mental health ward was closed despite its objections.
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.
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Michael White on politics
We've said it here before, and it won't go away. When trust fades, the effect is like dry rot. It creeps into corners of the infrastructure, including the politics of resource allocation with the NHS, and becomes very hard to drive out. It ceases to be a matter for Tony ...
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How the push for local choice in childbirth is foundering
Despite national pledges to provide women with a range of local options, choice in maternity services has largely failed to materialise. Alison Moore investigates how local organisations? decisions to close units are flying in the face of national policy
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Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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Michael white on politics
'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'
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Sophia Christie on telling our story
'Formal public meetings only ever engage the sort of people who like attending formal public meetings'
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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Hemel Hospital to lose key services
Hemel Hempstead Hospital is to be stripped of its acute services despite a 30-year campaign to keep services in the town.
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Health Commission Wales under threat
A major question-mark has been placed over the future of Health Commission Wales - the agency dealing with highly specialised services - after it was slammed by the Welsh Assembly's audit committee.
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Reprieved Macclesfield faces new review
A hospital which won a last minute reprieve for its maternity services is now to face a new challenge.
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Think tank slams 'dysfunctional' DGH reforms
The government has been criticised for its dysfunctional handling of hospital reconfiguration in a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research this week.
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Now Blair says ministers can fight closures
Prime minister Tony Blair has given his backing to Labour MPs who oppose hospital closure, despite telling NHS managers that he instructed Labour politicians to give their backing to changes in local services.
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MP hits out over Hartlepool service changes
The MP who resigned from his government health brief amid a reconfiguration row has spoken of his 'disappointment' over the latest ruling.
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Warks scales down charges
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust has drawn back from wholesale changes to hospitals - but is likely to centralise more services at the new University Hospital in Coventry, built by private finance initiative.
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Michael White on politics
Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.
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Media watch
The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'
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HSJ Knowledge
How overview and scrutiny committees can help, or hinder, NHS service redesign
Nick Edwards reports on a survey of OSC chairs about their attitudes towards NHS managers