Mental Health – Page 191
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Comment
Michael White: parliamentary deadlock
'Parliament is deadlocked on serious issues that may end up in a 'ping pong' test of wills'
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Regional contrasts exposed in access to mental healthcare
Mental health patients in parts of England have little or no access to care and treatment, health and social care watchdogs have found.
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Barometer: mental health, February 2007
With the end of the financial year looming, chief executives of mental health providers are very confident this month that they will end the year in financial balance. A score of 9.26 is the highest ever recorded for this measure and the highest score of this barometer.
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Time to tear ourselves away from paper
Trusts' reluctance to store patient records electronically is a national scandal which is draining resources, harming patient care and limiting the potential of historical archives, argues Capita's Robert McIndoe
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HSJ Knowledge
Data Briefing: Did the extra money go on new staff?
A new analysis of the reason for and distribution of NHS deficits published by the Department of Health, Explaining NHS Deficits, contains an interesting analysis of what the extra funding from 2000-04 was spent on. The answer, apparently, is that nearly 80 per cent was consumed by the costs of ...
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Simon Stevens on the lost art of analysis
'Explaining NHS Deficits detonates many of the most powerful urban myths surrounding the NHS'.
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Noel Plumridge on the non-exec conundrum
'How can one challenge yet remain part of the team? That's the non-executive dilemma'
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Pick-and-mix NHS will serve all customers
Having the right people involved in the right discussions is the key to keeping the NHS in check, says Anna Coote, while Jessica Crowe argues for a wide form of accountability that leaves no voice unheard
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Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...
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HSJ Knowledge
International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'
In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports
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Simon Stevens on the great pbc debate
PBC is desirable but sadly not workable as a universal mechanism. It wasn't in the 1990s, and it isn't now
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Independent providers opened up to public scrutiny
The Healthcare Commission has launched a new web service that provides patients and the public with information about performance in independent acute hospitals, mental health units and independent sector treatment centres.Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker, said: 'We want to make sure that patients have access to information about the ...
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New applicants for foundation trust status
The Department of Health has named the 17 trusts that will be passed to foundation trust regulator Monitor for authorisation.The eight acute and specialist trusts and nine mental health trusts are set to receive authorisation from April.Health minister Lord Warner said: 'Today's announcement is another important step towards delivering the ...
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Liberal Democrats announce changes to shadow cabinet
Norman Lamb has taken over as Liberal Democrat health spokesman. He replaces Steve Webb, who has become chair of the party's election manifesto team.Mr Lamb has been chief of staff to Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell since March. He said: 'I'm thrilled at the prospect of taking the health ...
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Survey: new year optimism outweighs financial fears
A survey of 648 managers and leaders, published today by the Chartered Management Institute, shows that the mood of optimism in the sector remains despite fears over increasing business taxation and inflation.Key findings included that most managers in the health sector believe employment levels are unlikely to drop and the ...
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Call for National IT programme revamp
The British Computer Society has called for a major re-evaluation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.The society's health informatics forum says the programme has achieved some significant successes around infrastructure, but has slowed the deployment of local systems. It also says elements of the NHS Core Records ...
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Seasonal gloom at the BMA
The British Medical Association has picked up on health secretary Patricia Hewitt's comment that the NHS has had its 'best year ever' by publishing its own review of the Best of Years, the Worst of Years.Overall, it says that while there have been some ...
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Think tank slams NHS reform
The think tank Reform has accused the NHS of failing to develop a coherent vision for change, and warned that unless the government tackles 'centralised, dysfunctional bureaucracy', its funding and policy achievements will go to waste.Author Ian Smith, a private sector manager interviewed for the NHS chief executive's post this ...
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DoH puts safety first
The Department of Health has issued a report on improving support patient safety in the NHS.Safety First - a report for patients, clinicians and healthcare managerssays the National Patient Safety Agency should be 'refocused' on collecting and analysing information through its national reporting and learning system, and that this should ...