All articles by Laura Donnelly – Page 6
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Tears for fears
With chief executives running around in circles trying to meet the demands of the modernisation agenda, no wonder so many posts go unfilled. Laura Donnelly takes a reading of the top people's gloomometer
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Experts query hospital rankings data
The launch of a consumer hospital guide ranking hospitals by death rates has sparked attacks on the quality of its data and the workload imposed on the NHS by private publishing company Dr Foster.
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High risks, scarce talent leave NHS fighting to fill top jobs
One in four top NHS jobs is vacant - and the gaps at the 'top table' of management mirror recruitment concerns at trusts across the country, HSJ sources have warned.
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Strategy for HIV remains elusive despite an extra £41m in funding
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced an extra £41m next year to tackle soaring numbers of people living with HIV and AIDS. But there is still no sign of the long-delayed draft sexual health and HIV strategy, which is now not expected until the new year.
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Cost index sparks familiar rows on data
The NHS index of reference costs has come under attack for its use of faulty data and a 'continued lack of sophistication' in the way costs are measured.
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Talking point
To combine his twin NHS roles of permanent secretary and chief executive, Nigel Crisp has to pull off a tricky balancing act. But he is determined to be accessible - and communicative - he tells Laura Donnelly in an exclusive interview
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Reeves to quit NHS on a fiscal high note
NHS director of finance and performance management Colin Reeves is to leave the service after 16 years, seven of which were on its top board. His departure in spring 2001 will follow a shake-up of the NHS Executive's finance function.
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Stocking's tops
The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports
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Cloud on the silver lining
The brighter outlook for those diagnosed with HIV is putting a financial strain on long-term support services. Laura Donnelly reports on how they are coping
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'No need to panic' over who will replace the London region 'hard hitter' says his stand-in
London regional chair Ian Mills says there is 'no need to panic' over the appointment of a permanent successor to the departing Nigel Crisp.
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Trial and error
A typicals for treating schizophrenia received the thumbs-up at an HSJ debate, but some condemned trials backing their use. Laura Donnelly was there
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Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.
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More Londoners are killed by pollution than die on roads
A report launched at the first meeting of the London Health Commission, set up by mayor Ken Livingstone, today claims that more people die from transport-related pollution than road accidents in the capital.
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Would you like cash back?
Yes, please, says the BMA - about 14 per cent would do nicely. As the annual pay review tussle hots up, Laura Donnelly and Tash Shifrin find out who wants what, and how badly
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'Extra resources needed' to meet future demands on mental health
An interim strategy examining how the NHS can build a mental health workforce to meet the demands of the national service framework and NHS plan says extra resources will still be needed.
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Toolkit will help trusts judge beds capacity
Trusts and health authorities will receive 'prescriptive' guidance next month showing them how to get their share of 2,100 extra acute and general beds promised in the NHS plan.
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This man wants to lose his job
The GP charged with spreading good practice in primary care is looking forward to redundancy - it will mean his job is done, writes Laura Donnelly
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Bastards let us down: NHS Direct bidder
The main rivals for the software contract to complete the roll-out of NHS Direct have reacted bitterly to news that French insurance company Axa Assistance has won the £68m-a-year deal.
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Blair and Milburn split on criteria for new chief executive of NHS
Health secretary Alan Milburn is caught in a row between the Department of Health and Number 10 over who to appoint as NHS chief executive, HSJ understands.
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Less is more
That the NHS plan has so little to say on mental health is actually a sign that the government is pretty much on the ball in this area. Laura Donnelly explains the paradox