County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust – Page 5

  • HSJ Local

    Durham service change plans approved

    2011-02-07T14:28:00Z

    STRUCTURE: The “Seizing the Future” reconfiguration programme in County Durham and Darlington has been retrospectively approved as passing the government’s four tests for such changes.

  • HSJ Local

    Durham and Darlington FT reconfiguration approved

    2011-02-07T14:28:00Z

    STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust’s “Seizing the Future” reconfiguration programme has been retrospectively approved as having passed the government’s four tests for such changes.

  • Take the lead in preventing ill health
    Comment

    Take the lead in preventing ill health

    2010-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Britain was known as “the sick man of Europe”. Then it related to industrial strife and poor economic performance. Now we are in danger of regaining that mantle, but this time in public health terms.

  • The latest round of cuts in the NHS will see almost 60 health managers and administrators in Durham lose their jobs
    News

    60 management jobs axed

    2010-09-07T11:24:00Z

    The latest round of cuts in the NHS will see almost 60 health managers and administrators in Durham lose their jobs, it has been reported.

  • Leading the NHS through massive organisational change
    Comment

    'We all know NHS change will keep coming - the trick is to adapt'

    2010-08-19T00:00:00Z

    In the immediate wake of the white paper it would be churlish to ignore what are potentially the most significant changes in the history of the health service.

  • Stephen Eames
    Comment

    Stephen Eames on GPs in the hotseat

    2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

    At a recent dinner party, a fellow guest, who happened to be a GP, said: “If I was to invite my colleagues to a meeting about practice based commissioning, I would be there on my own with the sandwiches” (well, actually these days it would be without the sandwiches.).

  • Stephen Eames
    Comment

    Stephen Eames on the NHS leadership race

    2010-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Research by McKinsey shows companies like to promote the idea that employees are their biggest competitive advantage. Yet most are as unprepared for the challenge of finding, motivating and nurturing talent as they were a decade ago. Why?

  • Roberta Blackman-Woods
    News

    PFI revelation fails to tip balance to Lib Dems in North East battleground seat

    2010-05-07T13:31:00Z

    Labour’s Roberta Blackman-Woods retained City of Durham after beginning the campaign lauding County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust’s “state of the art £91m hospital”.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Supply chain efficiency

    2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The government plans a brave new world for public health.

  • Stephen Eames
    Comment

    Stephen Eames on managing the future of the NHS

    2009-11-12T00:00:00Z

    At a recent trust board seminar to review our performance and development over the past year, we recognised that we were at a watershed moment. We acknowledged the years ahead would be driven by the recession and the multibillion pound recovery programme the government intends to generate from public services.

  • London acutes could see workload fall by up to 72pc
    News

    London acutes could see workload fall by up to 72pc

    2009-09-10T00:00:00Z

    London’s acute hospitals face a drop of up to 72 per cent in their workload and a 42 per cent cut in their annual income by 2016-17, a report disseminated by the capital’s strategic health authority has warned.

  • Stephen Eames
    Comment

    Stephen Eames on dementia strategy

    2009-08-27T00:00:00Z

    I was startled when our nursing director pointed out that at any one time there could be up to 400 patients with dementia occupying beds in our hospitals.

  • NHS smoking cessation: sticking with quitting
    HSJ Knowledge

    NHS smoking cessation: sticking with quitting

    2009-08-17T17:43:00Z

    NHS stop smoking services’ 10th anniversary marks one of the strongest public health interventions of a decade - and there are plans to maintain the momentum. Stuart Shepherd reports

  • News

    NHS cash subsidises private patient care

    2009-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Private patients are getting hundreds of thousands of pounds of treatment subsidised by the NHS each year, an HSJ investigation reveals.

  • Eames Stephen
    Comment

    Stephen Eames on the quest for quality

    2009-05-14T00:00:00Z

    At a recent meeting, a colleague likened the current welter of initiatives on quality to being “tied down like Gulliver”. It’s not that I argue with the importance of providing safe, high quality care - far from it - but I have some sympathy with the view that there is ...