All articles by Jo Stephenson – Page 3
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NewsDH launches 'engagement exercise' on social care policy
The government has embarked on a major consultation designed to involve patients, providers and professionals in re-designing social care.
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CCGs setting spending priorities urged to 'be brave'
Most primary care trust commissioners believe they have struggled with setting priorities for health spending in their area, according to a new research report.
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CommentMedia Watch: trusts condemned over money spent on recruiting foreign staff
Hospital managers came under fire this week after the Sunday Telegraph revealed some trusts had spent thousands of pounds on trips to recruit foreign doctors and nurses while allegedly laying off their own staff.
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Morecambe maternity services rapped by regulator
PERFORMANCE: Divisions between senior medical staff contributed to maternity services at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust failing to meet essential safety standards, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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CommentMedia Watch: PCTs admit to deliberately making patients wait
Scheming NHS managers are making patients wait longer than necessary for operations to save cash, according to the Daily Telegraph.
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NewsConfed calls for changes to EU procurement law
The NHS Confederation has urged the European Commission to simplify laws on public procurement and make it easier to negotiate better deals.
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NewsIncrease PFI plan values, managers told
NHS organisations should press for better value for money from existing private finance initiatives and find new ways of funding projects, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
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NewsLeading MPs fail to find anything positive in NHS reforms
The chair of the influential Public Accounts Committee has said the cross-party group of MPs struggled to find anything positive in the government’s NHS reform plan
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Transferred employees feel 'marooned'
Clinicians who transferred from the NHS to work in independent treatment centres feel “marooned” and worry about standards of care, according to research.
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NewsTrusts risking fines with mixed-sex wards
Thousands of patients are still being cared for in mixed-sex accommodation despite the fact that trusts face being fined for the practice from next month.
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CommentMedia watch: Lib Dems' wash hands of reforms in spring conference
The papers this week were full of the Liberal Democrat spring conference’s rejection of the government’s health reforms.
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NewsDH ignored advice to cut children's acute top-ups
A report on the true cost of specialised care has provided fresh evidence that the government bowed to political pressure not to reduce funding to children’s acute services.
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NewsBMA votes against rejecting entire Health Bill
The British Medical Association has voted not to reject the entire health bill in a secret ballot.
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NewsRejecting Health Bill will weaken doctors' influence, warns BMA chair
The British Medical Association’s council chairman has called for unity among the profession as doctors prepare to vote on their responses to the government’s health reforms
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS managers dine out on free lunch
Did you go to the big match at the weekend? If so, who paid for the tickets?
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NewsTrauma system delay deaths 'unnecessary'
Patients died unnecessarily because establishing a centralised trauma system in the capital took too long, according to the chief executive of NHS London.
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NewsPreventative care savings questioned by study
A study has cast doubt over whether investing in preventive services in the community either saves money or reduces hospital admissions.
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NewsPCTs will decide 'never event' fines for providers
Primary care trusts have been given freedom to set the level of financial penalty imposed on providers for serious failings “that should never happen”.
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NewsManagers told to 'relax' over online criticism
Managers have been told to respond more honestly to critical feedback on the internet in order to improve services, following an analysis of online comments.
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CommentMedia Watch: letters from David Cameron
Not satisfied with the “see it from space” scale of the current NHS reorganisation, the Daily Telegraph warned another change of “seismic” proportions is heading the public sector’s way.