All articles by Alison Moore – Page 80
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HSJ Knowledge
NEDs who guide trusts in crisis
Non-executive directors often have to step into the breach when a trust is in meltdown. But what prompts NEDs to step forward at these times and what can they contribute? Alison Moore reports
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News
SHA releases psychiatric killers' reports
Two reports into psychiatric patients who killed have been released by NHS East of England - more than five years after the incidents.
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News
End of postcode lottery could put PCTs in a spin
The Primary Care Commissioning Network will pool PCTs' expertise to help them make decisions on using new treatments while they wait for NICE guidance. But trusts that choose to ignore the network's advice could find themselves facing a media storm. By Alison Moore
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HSJ Knowledge
Turnaround troubleshooter at the top
NHS fixer Jan Filochowski believes honesty with staff is the first step to dealing with a trust in crisis. Alison Moore reports
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News
Rising fuel prices push up healthcare overheads
Sharp rises in oil and food prices are hitting the NHS hard, with energy and catering bills for big trusts in the millions and the situation likely to get worse. Alison Moore reports
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News
Call to curb Liverpool's pub and food outlets
A ground-breaking commission looking into how to improve health in Liverpool has called for health impact assessments for planning applications to help fight obesity and alcohol-related problems.
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Staff payment blunder at United Bristol Healthcare trust
Hundreds of staff at a hospital trust have been left out of pocket after problems introducing the electronic staff record.
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West Sussex A&E campaign undoes reconfiguration plans
A two-year battle to keep accident and emergency services at all three hospitals in West Sussex has ended in partial victory for campaigners.
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Comment
Media Watch: nurses' paperwork
Research suggesting nurses are drowning in paperwork generated a deluge of angry comment. 'The managers who preside over this shambles have blood on their hands,' screamed the News of the World.
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News
Leicestershire Partnership trust rapped over killer's treatment
An independent review has criticised a mental health trust's treatment of a man who was repeatedly in contact with its services but went on to kill one neighbour and injure another.
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Kent council sets up 24-hour NHS complaints hotline
A county council is setting up its own hotline for people who want to complain about or comment on local NHS services.
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Nottingham ISTC delays continue
The opening date of England's biggest single site independent sector treatment centre is still uncertain - amid signs that the potential financial impact on local NHS bodies is causing concern.
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News
Breaking away: Wales maps out its own future
The Welsh Assembly has plans for a third way between an internal market and a command and control system, with local health boards losing control of the commissioning purse strings. Alison Moore explains
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News
Single room hospital gets go-ahead
The NHS's first all-single-room acute hospital has been given the final go-ahead. The Department of Health announced last week that construction work could start on Pembury Hospital in Kent by the end of the month.
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News
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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News
Union warns over offensive email activity
NHS organisations need policies in place to deal with staff accessing offensive material on work computers, NHS Employers has said.
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News
Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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News
Fraud charges
Two former directors of a private hospital group have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the NHS.The move by Norfolk police follows an investigation lasting more than a year into financial irregularities at Cawston Park Hospital, one of three psychiatric hospitals run by Chancellor Care. The NHS Counter Fraud and ...
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News
Hospitals gain ground in acute services battle
Three West Sussex hospitals have moved a step closer to retaining many of their acute services.