All articles by Helen Crump – Page 2
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Team up to control costs of chlamydia campaigns
Chlamydia screening campaigns should use a “single marketing approach” to control costs, a sexual health charity is urging.
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CommentMediawatch: Salient advice for health managers
Summer is here. How do we know? Because the newspapers are full of utterly mad health stories.
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NewsDH to set up social enterprise support framework
The Department of Health has launched a procurement drive to set up a framework of organisations to help primary care trust provider arms become social enterprises.
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NewsDepartment of Health plans to split Monitor top job
Monitor’s top job is to be split in two under plans being developed by the Department of Health.
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NewsNHS flu czar warns PCTs over pandemic plans
Primary care trusts have been ordered to “test to destruction” their plans to deal with swine flu amid concerns that some may be complacent about their preparedness.
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NewsMark Britnell move 'will not hit world class commissioning'
The Department of Health is downplaying Mark Britnell’s departure for the private sector, insisting the world class commissioning programme will not flounder without him.
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NewsAvoid tendering pitfalls, warns NHS competition panel director
Co-operation and competition panel director Andrew Taylor has revealed some of the basic mistakes primary care trusts have made when tendering out services.
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NewsWHO declares swine flu pandemic
The World Health Organisation has declared a swine flu pandemic.
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NewsTake on more risk to increase share of health market, private companies told
Private companies must take on more risk if they want to gain a bigger share of the primary and community care market.
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NewsAndy Burnham: NHS must maintain strength in face of swine flu
It is “vital” that the NHS maintains its national strength as the health service battles a swine flu pandemic, health secretary Andy Burnham has warned.
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NewsBest primary care trusts to get franchise on rest
Top primary care trusts will be able to take over poor performing PCTs as franchises under sweeping changes set to boost commissioning performance.
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NewsPCTs find there are no shortcuts to freedom
Pursuing the rewards for world class commissioning unveiled by the Department of Health this week looks likely to prove a test of every PCT’s whole operational strategy. Helen Crump reports
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NewsPCTs call for tariff and GP contract reforms
Radical reworking of the payment by results tariff and the GP contract is needed to make the savings required in the financial downturn, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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PCTs told they could save £3bn over five years
Primary care trusts could save £3bn over five years through world class commissioning, the Department of Health has claimed.
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NewsNHS boards looking at wrong issues, Monitor tells NHS Confed
More needs to be done to boost the quality of NHS boards, regulator Monitor has warned.
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NewsNHS waiting times up sharply
The number of patients waiting more than eight weeks for an outpatient appointment has shot up by nearly a third in the space of a month, Department of Health figures reveal.
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NewsAndy Burnham called on to keep up pace of NHS reform
Health secretary Andy Burnham has been called on to keep up momentum on NHS reform.
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NewsNHS productivity unit role revealed
The NHS productivity unit will prepare the health service for the economic downturn with an initial budget of just £350,000.
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NewsPCTs leave public on the policy sidelines
Primary care trusts are failing to put patients and the public at the centre of the very strategies designed to engage them.
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CommentMediawatch: why FOI is an F-word for the NPSA
Every journalist loves writing stories about secret reports, figures revealed under the Freedom of Information Act and leaks by angry whistleblowers - such phrases add an air of intrigue to even the dullest statistics.