All Mental health articles – Page 193
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GMC offers an end to doctors' self-regulation
The General Medical Council has proposed an historic change to its make-up that would effectively end self-regulation of the medical profession.
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Patient top-up fees on rise, say doctors
Patients are increasingly having to pay top-up fees for private care because of budget cuts in the NHS and long waiting times, according to a report by pressure group Doctors for Reform.
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Wanted: doctors to help redesign services
The need for more doctors to take on a management role has almost become a mantra, yet progress has been painfully slow. Penny Dash and Pam Garside examine the challenges and opportunities
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Laura Donnelly on honesty and political risks
'Admitting that the NHS does not always offer a 'world-class service' is a high political risk'
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HSJ Knowledge
Double troubles
What do you do with a patient who is both mentally ill and addicted to drugs or alcohol? Lynn Eaton on how the NHS is finally waking up to the challenge of dual diagnosis
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Wanless to examine future of mental health
The King's Fund has launched a Wanless review of mental health services in a bid to project the cost of providing a service over 20 years.
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A freedom framework will unite former foes
With the debate about freedom from political interference raging, strategic health authority chief executive Mark Britnell outlines his model for compromise and wonders what an NHS charter might contain
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing for healthcare resource group four
Healthcare resource groups are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use comparable levels of healthcare resource.
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HSJ Knowledge
Get together
A new inspection regime - the comprehensive area assessment - is to be rolled out for a range of local services. HSJ and sister title LGC collected the great and the good to discuss how it will affect their work
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Getting involved improves your health
New research shows that social participation is just as important for improving the health of older people as medical intervention.
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Mental health is subsidising other trusts
Mental health trusts are being forced to subsidise other parts of the health economy, a report has warned.
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Healthcheck ratings: tougher test means story must be retold
The Healthcare Commission said it would be a tougher test - and so it has proved. In the first national healthcheck ratings only two dozen organisations were rated excellent for service quality, and even fewer for their use of resources. Only half of NHS organisations met all the core standards, ...
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Simon Stevens on winning hearts and minds
'NHS targets have not yet been tough enough (yes you read that right) to alter public perception'
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Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Target-chasing managers suffer 'pathological' levels of stress
Too many new policies, a lack of coherent strategy and invasive performance management are creating 'pathological' levels of stress among NHS middle managers, an NHS Confederation report has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Outcomes measures tools
A range of good quality outcomes measures tools exist to help us collect information in a structured and evidence-based way. These tools contain a set of questions - the same questions are answered at agreed points in a person's care over time in order to track changes. People coming into ...
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Media watch
The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages
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Media watch
The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.