Acute Care – Page 476
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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
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HSJ Knowledge
Design for living
The targets may have been narrowly missed, but meticulous planning of care pathways and a focus on sustainability are driving radical improvements to cancer treatment. And Daloni Carlisle says there's more to come
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Admissions: cutting excess bed days
Avoiding hospital admissions and reducing stays are ongoing priorities for primary care and acute trusts.
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Efficiency: realising potential to cut waste
Three factors are key to rapid improvement in NHS productivity and efficiency: a focus on what is known to work; follow the lead set by the best; drive improvement through measurement.
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Live and direct - how five got ahead
HSJ's GM Live events provided an unprecedented opportunity for trusts not only to share best practice, but to see the benefits for themselves. Alexis Nolan reports
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Helen Bevan on a life-saving campaign
'What can the NHS learn from this overachievement of a national goal?'
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Local health community Demonstrators
The NHS Integrated Service Improvement Programme is working with strategic health authorities to support the change agenda.
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How Buckinghamshire is moving opthalmology closer to home
There is a lot of rhetoric about moving care closer to home but how easy is it and can quality be maintained?
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority