All Long-term conditions articles – Page 32
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HSJ KnowledgeHow NHS collaboration with the pharma industry could benefit both players
The challenge to find cost-savings while innovating services presents issues for both the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry to address, but an opportunity to collaborate could bring them closer together for the benefit of all. PA Consulting Group colleagues Dr Stephen Black and Ian Rhodes explain.
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Comment'The focus now for those who manage healthcare should be value'
Now that the dust has settled somewhat on the furore surrounding the Health Bill, I find myself thinking about the domestic and truly international health agenda.
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NewsTrebled number of smokers quitting sees overall success rate drop
The number of people trying to quit smoking via NHS services has roughly trebled in the last decade but success rates have fallen, figures show.
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NewsExclusive: the Christie plans national 'chain' of cancer centres
Specialist cancer hospital The Christie Foundation Trust is considering plans which could see it open branded treatment and diagnostic centres across England, in partnership with a private sector provider.
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News'Financial reward' kidney donation comment sparks row
People should be allowed to sell their kidneys for £28,000 to tackle a shortage of donors, a researcher has suggested.
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NewsImproved early cancer detection initiative begins
A plan to increase early cancer detection rates by a quarter was published today.
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NewsCancer tsar calls for radiotherapy investment
Investment is needed in new radiotherapy technology but both commissioners and the public need to be convinced of the benefits, according to the cancer tsar.
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HSJ Local
PCT rapped over skin cancer service standards
COMMERCIAL: A dermatology contract negotiated by a primary care trust did not meet National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence standards and left patients at greater risk of cancer, a report has concluded.
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HSJ KnowledgePutting power in the hands of patients to tackle long term conditions
Co-production needs to move from the margins of the NHS into the mainstream to help patients actively, rather than passively, access the healthcare they require, argues Halima Khan.
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NewsNHS medical director: technology like international consultations will transform service
The NHS should increase the use of technology to transform services - for example through patients accessing primary diagnostic services from overseas over the internet, the NHS medical director has said. Technology should also reduce costs, he said.
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HSJ LocalNorth Staffordshire PCT in obesity surgery appeal
A former police officer is taking his legal battle over a primary care trust’s refusal to fund obesity surgery to the Court of Appeal.
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NewsEaston: QIPP can provide 'crisis' needed to break hospital dependence
The NHS’s £20bn savings drive can provide the “crisis” it needs to transform physical healthcare in the same way it has transformed mental health services, Jim Easton said yesterday.
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NewsWarner: DH resisting Dilnot reforms
The Department of Health is resisting reforms required to implement the fairer system of social care funding demanded by the Dilnot commission, one of the commission’s architects has claimed.
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NewsEnd-of-life funding change would be 'fairer' on patients
Changing the way end-of-life care is funded across the country would save millions of pounds and help focus on individual patient needs, according to a government-ordered review.
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NewsCalls for quicker ovarian cancer diagnosis
Earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer could save the lives of 500 women a year, campaigners say.
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NewsFour GP visits before cancer diagnosis for quarter of young patients
A survey of young people with cancer found that six in 10 believed they could have been diagnosed earlier.
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Blogs
Time to change: challenging the stigma around mental health
The latest survey on the public attitude to mental health shows some encouraging figures, but also highlights how prevalent ignorance and fear toward mental illness remains. There is, says Sean Duggan, still some way to go in tackling mental health stigma.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow technology can support evidence-based models to improve chronic care
Chronic disease is one of the bigger challenges facing the health service, but supporting an evidence-based model with the technology to facilitate better connected healthcare
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NewsDoctor warns over mental health care 'vacuum'
There is a “massive problem” of depleting numbers of mental health doctors, a leading psychiatrist has warned.
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NewsCameron to embark on new reforms
David Cameron is set to embark on a fresh round of public service reforms, radically changing the way services are delivered.