All Health charities articles – Page 8
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Comment
Health charities can help rescue the innovation drive
The challenging QIPP targets NHS is aiming to achieve can be helped by the voluntary sector, argues Marie Curie Cancer Care chief executive Thomas Hughes-hallet.
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Blogs
Are online patients empowered patients?
Liberating health data can stimulate innovation and get patients involved in their own health, according to one speaker at a US event. Pamela Garside blogs about whether this approach could take off in the UK as well.
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News
'Incentives required' to improve arthritis support
GPs should be offered incentives to improve the care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who continue to be “systematically and appallingly let down by the NHS”, according to Arthritis Care.
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News
Leading charities ask health secretary to adopt five NHS priorities
The Richmond Group, the coalition of 10 leading health and social care charities, has named five themes that it wants the government to make priorities for the NHS.
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News
Charity challenges CQC over critical report
A charity has challenged the findings of a critical Care Quality Commission report on one of its homes for young people with learning disabilities.
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News
Older cancer patients' treatment restricted, Macmillan claims
Elderly cancer patients are being “under-treated” on the NHS because of assumptions made about their ability to cope, a charity warned today.
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Comment
Ciarán Devane: patients must be able to join the conversation
Ensuring the patient voice is heard.
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HSJ Knowledge
How international health links help improve family planning services
Establishing partnerships with healthcare groups around the world can benefit both the organisations in developing countries and the health service staff placed there, as Chris Smith and Rebecca Hill explain.
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News
Charities pursue involvement for CCG commissioning support
National charities are expecting to become major suppliers of commissioning support in the restructured NHS, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ Knowledge
Developing integrated care for an ageing population
Flooding in 2009 taught services in Cumbria valuable lessons about integrated care for an ageing population, explain Helen Ramsbottom and Mary Bradley.
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News
Commissioning board a 'folly', says Diabetes UK chief
The structure of the NHS Commissioning Board is an “act of total folly”, a leading charity chief has told HSJ.
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News
Government benefits clampdown 'increasing disability abuse'
Charities have warned that disabled people are increasingly being subjected to abuse as a result of the government’s focus on alleged fraud and over-claiming to justify benfits cuts.
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Comment
Ciarán Devane interview: 'There is a role for top-down control'
As the chief executive of cancer charity MacMillan starts work at the NHS Commissioning Board, he tells HSJ’s news editor Nick Golding that his motivation is to champion the patient.
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News
Warning as social care funding falls £0.5bn
Spending on older people’s social care in England has fallen by half a billion pounds, according to a new report.
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News
Fine hospitals restricting bowel cancer care, charity says
Hospitals that fail to offer bowel cancer patients a full range of appropriate treatments should be fined, a charity has said.
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News
Organ donation target 'will be missed'
The head of a kidney charity has launched an attack on the government over organ donation, saying it will miss a target to boost donor rates by 50 per cent.
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News
Cost of rising emergency dementia admissions revealed
There has been a 12 per cent growth over five years in the number of people with dementia admitted to hospital as an emergency, according to a report exclusively shared with HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
How UK healthcare professionals can help countries needing international development
Healthcare workers are being challenged to take up their most demanding but rewarding career move yet as international development charity VSO urgently needs 100 healthcare professionals to volunteer in some of the world’s poorest countries next year.
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News
Home care services to have CQC inspections
Home care services are to be subject to inspection under a programme announced by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Knowledge
How supercomputers can cost effectively advance medical research
Obtaining the power of “supercomputers” helps researchers produce and manage mass amounts of data with benefits to productivity and cost, and progressing into new areas of research, writes Cancer Research UK’s head of IT and scientific computing Peter Maccallum.