All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 56
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HSJ Knowledge
Consultant development programme
Disenchantment is rife among established NHS consultants.
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NewsSuperbug risk from hospital sinks
The Department of Health has issued an alert warning that hospital wash basins have been identified as a source of gram negative bacteria.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alcohol screening and intervention
We began as academic ST4 GP registrars at Imperial College in August 2009.
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NewsHSJ100: Staying power is at the heart of NHS influence
As we prepare our list of the most influential people in health in 2010, Alastair McLellan and Darius McQuaid look back at who has wielded most power in the NHS during the last four years
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Comment'A couple of unproductive consultants can turn a viable specialty into a loss maker'
Trust income could be given a boost by rebalancing older consultants’ roles between surgery and management
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NewsNicola Sturgeon hails 'best ever' waiting times
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the “best ever” waiting time figures achieved by the NHS in Scotland.
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NewsPCT flouts NICE by suspending IVF treatment
A primary care trust in Cheshire has stopped funding in vitro fertilisation services in a cost cutting move that challenges national guidance.
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HSJ KnowledgeCardiac care pathway: all hands to the pump
A countywide angioplasty service is speeding up recovery times through multi-trust cooperation, reports Alison Moore
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NewsHundreds of patients face hip replacement recall
A medical device company has issued an urgent safety notice after discovering problems with hip replacement devices thought to have been fitted in hundreds of NHS patients.
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NewsElderly 'being left to go hungry on wards'
Elderly people are being left to go hungry on NHS wards, a report has claimed.
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NewsInfant deaths prompt deep clean at UCH
A leading hospital has said it had stepped up cleaning and taken other measures after four premature babies were found to be infected with a an infection resistant to common antibiotics.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use social networking to help people with mental health problems
The Big White Wall combines social networking with a choice of clinically informed interventions to help people cope with mental health problems
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to set up a mutual organisation
Mutual ventures offer ways to make use of the health white paper’s business opportunities, says Mark Johnson
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NewsNHS faces 'overwhelming obesity burden'
Health experts have warned of obesity’s “overwhelming” burden on the NHS as figures showed a 785% rise in weight-loss surgery.
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NewsGP and midwife vacancies rising
The NHS is finding filling vacancies for GPs and midwives in England tougher than for any other job within the public healthcare sector, figures have revealed.
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NewsGPs pose £2bn threat to commissioning budget
GP commissioners blew their budgets by a net 2.5 per cent last financial year, exclusive analysis by HSJ reveals.
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LeaderThe accountability of overspending GPs
The British Medical Association has declared GP consortia must be “democratically accountable” to practices. And they “should act with integrity and leadership when considering the accountability of practices”.
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NewsGP largesse alarms Lansley’s colleagues
The prospect of GPs blowing the NHS commissioning budget remains the prime concern of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s Westminster colleagues.
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NewsClinical coding improving, says Audit Commission
The accuracy of hospital trusts’ clinical coding has improved significantly in the past three years, but remains very poor at some organisations, according to the Audit Commission.
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CommentNHS reorganisation: don't leave the patients behind
It could be the language that seals the deal. New Labour’s mission got lost in a technocratic haze, so a white paper more comfortable with the vernacular of the voluntary sector is helping patient groups swallow the pill of another reorganisation while showing genuine enthusiasm for the changes ahead.