All articles by Helen Crump – Page 5
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Search starts for new chief executive of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
The hunt has begun for a new chief executive for the Yorkshire and Humber strategic health authority.
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PCT boards risk governance failure over provider organisations
Primary care trust boards risk failures in governance because arrangements for appointing the boards of their arm’s-length provider organisations are unclear.
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Can integrated care usher in a new age of risk taking?
A speedy selection process has led to 16 projects being picked for integrated care pilots. Can they improve quality and test bold ideas or have we seen it all before, asks Helen Crump
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Study reveals three-fold cost variation in GP out of hours services
GP out of hours services are costing more than three times more per patient in some parts of England than in others.
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MPs launch inquiry into cancer treatment inequality
MPs are to launch an inquiry into “postcode lotteries” in cancer treatment.
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NICE to review GP quality incentives
The Department of Health announced yesterday that it will be handing responsibility for reviewing clinical indicators included in the GP quality and outcome framework to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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DH rewrites top-ups guidance
The Department of Health has rewritten its guidance on co-payments following fears of increased bureaucracy for primary care trusts and hospitals.
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'Distressing failures' in NHS care for people with learning disabilities
A report into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities has uncovered “significant and distressing” failures in services across health and social care.
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PCTs demand end to community foundation trust pilot
Primary care trust provider arms are calling on the Department of Health to drop the community foundation trust pilot scheme and allow them to apply for foundation status on a level playing field.
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London PCT and council to share chief executive
Hammersmith and Fulham primary care trust and the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are to begin operating with a joint chief executive and integrated management team.
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Integrated care will be tested by only 16 organisations
Just 16 organisations have made it onto the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot scheme.
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HIV diagnoses drop, but rates still high in gay men
New HIV diagnoses in the UK fell slightly last year, but diagnosis rates among gay men were at their second highest level since recording began.
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Media Watch: credit crunch scapegoat
Now bank chiefs have been sufficiently humiliated in the press, the media’s attention seems to be turning to a new credit crunch scapegoat: NHS managers.
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PCTs say incentives policy fails local commissioners
Primary care trusts have criticised the Department of Health for backing away from plans to allow them to set local incentives in the national GPs’ bonus schemes.
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Cash for healthy lifestyles
Economic incentives such as paying people not to smoke should be incorporated into public health strategy, a government policy group has said.
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Government accused of 'wanton experimentation on the public'
MPs have accused the government of “wanton large scale experimentation on the public” through poorly evidenced health inequalities policies.
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Lift Awards 2009 winners announced
Renova Developments has won the award for Lift Area of the Year in this year’s Lift Awards.
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Government accused of 'wanton experimentation on the public'
MPs have accused the government of “wanton large scale experimentation on the public” through poorly evidenced health inequalities policies.
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Dental equipment cleanliness under scrutiny
Primary care trusts are to be asked to help find out from dentists how clean their surgical equipment is.