All articles by Dave West – Page 84
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NewsNHS IT must focus on efficiency and core elements
The NHS must focus IT developments on better efficiency, chief executives have been told.
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News‘Avoid merger distractions’
The NHS must focus on patients when considering mergers with social care, the Department of Health’s new quality and productivity clinical lead has warned.
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NewsClot prevention is 2010-11 quality priority
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has said preventing venous thromboembolism will be the top clinical priority for improving quality and productivity in hospitals in 2010-11.
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NewsNurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to be more “proactive” in its policing of poor nursing care, including carrying out inspections of trusts, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsChief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson resigns
Chief medical officer for England Sir Liam Donaldson is to step down in May after 12 years in the post.
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NewsNHS boards react to Gordon Brown’s salary shame threat
Forcing organisations to publicly justify the salary of every manager earning more than £150,000 would damage the NHS, boards have warned.
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NewsFoundation governors 'must be key in reconfiguration'
The Foundation Trust Governors’ Association has said its members must be central to making major service changes as investment cuts hit.
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NewsLondon NHS commissioners reply to cost criticisms
London’s central commissioning support body has insisted it is responding to concerns about its cost.
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NewsSafety outcry is ‘mandate’ for NHS quality
Public outcry about apparently unsafe hospitals gives the health service a mandate to put quality ahead of finance in planning and providing services, the NHS medical director has said.
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NewsNICE highlights guidance to save NHS money
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has collected together evidence it believes could save the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds.
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NewsIndependent provider arms 'nonsense', David Nicholson says
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has described the idea of many primary care trust provider arms becoming independent as “nonsense”.
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NewsConfused patients appeal for simplified NHS regulation
Health profession regulators should standardise how they work, or even merge, to improve safety, patient groups have said.
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NewsNorth London acute trusts considering merger
Two hospital trusts in north London are considering a merger.
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NewsPatient safety reporting still fails to reach boards in 1 in 10 acute trusts
One in 10 hospital trusts have confessed to not regularly reporting patient safety and outcomes at board level, more than a year after Lord Darzi’s next stage review said care quality should be “at the heart of the NHS”.
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NewsTension as a Monitor chair still not named
Foundation trusts and the Monitor board have raised concerns that the government has not yet appointed a chair for the regulator, with less than three months until its current executive chair leaves the organisation.
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NewsLondon PCT support agency under review
London’s commissioning support body is reviewing its management structure and its chief executive is on “extended leave” - less than 10 months after it was established.
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NewsTrusts frustrated over ‘worse’ mortality rates
Hospital trusts are “surprised and frustrated” by latest mortality ratios that suggest their performance has worsened.
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NewsNorth east London hospital shake-up consultation coming soon
A consultation on the reconfiguration of hospital services in north east London is expected to start before the end of the year.