Acute Care – Page 482
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Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald on GPs and commissioning
'Strategic health authorities and GPs must represent the best interests of the citizen and patient... However, they face some pretty daunting challenges'
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HSJ Knowledge
In practice: reducing length of stay
Reducing hospital length of stay is an effective way to address the challenges of productivity and NHS financial efficiency.
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Dignity nurse plan scrapped
Plans for hospitals to appoint a 'dignity nurse' have been dropped after the proposal was 'misinterpreted'.
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Lansley: at-risk hospitals 'better off as charities'
Many community hospitals at risk of closure 'would be better off with charitable status' than remaining in the NHS, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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Child visitors face ban
A hospital trust has drawn up contingency plans to severely restrict child visitors if patients are at risk from diarrhoea and vomiting bugs.
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Food still leaves bad taste in patients' mouths
Almost half of hospital patients supplement their hospital food with offerings brought in by visitors, the biggest survey of its kind has revealed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sharing management between hospital and community
Glaucoma treatment: Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals foundation trust
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News analysis: Five years and billions of pounds later, what has changed since Wanless?
Sir Derek Wanless's 2002 report prompted the chancellor to pump billions into the health service - but called for reform too. Now he is back to pack another punch by examining how wisely the money was spent and set out lessons for the future. Daniel Martin reports
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Robert Greene and Paul Ray on foundation finances
Patient choice presents particular challenges for foundation trusts, so good revenue forecasting is needed, say Robert Greene and Paul Ray
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HSJ Knowledge
No need for foundations to get in a stew if the mix is right
The new governance code provides the five key ingredients with which foundation trusts can help boards develop effective leadership and cultivate roots in the community. Monitor chair Bill Moyes explains
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Plus signs in all the right places: a winning formula for HR
Ali Mohammed found himself hooked on human resources after a stint in a hospital personnel department. He tells Alexis Nolan that simplicity is the key to success
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HSJ Knowledge
Blazing a trail for cliniical audit
Two clinical auditors left a run-down clinical service and set up a firm to inject their profession with some much-needed rigour. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Healthcheck: just 11 have self-declared ratings reduced after inspection
The Healthcare Commission reviewed more trusts' self declarations than originally intended, chief executive Anna Walker has revealed.In total, 11 trusts had their overall rating reduced as a result of inspection of their self-declared standards.
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Website promises easier comparisons to promote public understanding
The Healthcare Commission today launched a new web service designed to allow the public to make easy national and local comparisons about the state of NHS services.
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Healthcheck ratings: Audit Commission focuses on 37 trusts that failed in key areas
The Audit Commission has voiced concern about 37 organisations deemed to be failing in three key financial areas. It compiled findings from local auditors for 2005-06 and scored all non-foundation organisations in the category of 'use of resources', which makes up half of the healthcheck ratings.
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NHS Appointments Commission: Wells to exit after six years
The chair of the NHS Appointments Commission is to step down at the end of his second term.
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Flint urges shops to weigh in on public health effort
Businesses, shops and employers must be drawn into efforts to improve public health, the government said this week.
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Health secretary quashes local objections to back maternity plans
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has quashed the objections of an overview and scrutiny committee and upheld local NHS proposals on maternity services on the advice of the independent reconfiguration panel.
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News analysis: Jostling parties reignite debate on limiting Whitehall meddling
At their recent conferences all three major parties made proposals to devolve more power from the centre. Would this help bring structure and consistency to policy, or are they solutions without a problem? Daloni Carlisle takes a closer look
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Only two top scorers in first year of healthcheck ratings
Just two organisations, both of them foundation trusts, have scored top marks in the first healthcheck ratings by the Healthcare Commission.