All News articles – Page 1151

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    Management styles: could you be a bully?

    2008-11-17T09:00:00Z

    Who, me? If it comes as a shock that your team finds your style too forceful, it is time to reflect, says coach Sheila Williams

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    London reconfiguration plans face legal challenge

    2008-11-14T15:22:00Z

    Reconfiguration plans in London backed by health secretary Alan Johnson will be challenged in court by campaigners.

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    Health ministers 'warned about Haringey child protection processes'

    2008-11-14T15:14:00Z

    Health ministers were warned about Haringey council's child protection processes just months before the death of a baby at the centre of an abuse scandal.

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    NHS managers hit back at European healthcare rankings

    2008-11-14T14:56:00Z

    NHS managers have hit back at a report that ranks the UK 13th for healthcare out of 31 European countries.The Euro Health Consumer Index 2008 puts the Netherlands in first place, with the UK trailing behind countries including Estonia, France and Germany.

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    HSJ50 2008 unveiled

    2008-11-14T10:00:00Z

    HSJ’s ranking of the 50 most powerful people in NHS management policy and practice in England has been revealed.

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    Unite members vote to strike over NHS pay

    2008-11-13T11:33:00Z

    Members of trade union Unite yesterday voted in favour of strike action over the government's three-year NHS pay deal.

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    Retirement rights

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    'If you are male and 40, you will be able to recall the registration numbers of every car you have ever owned'. True, but I should warn Ali Mohammed that when he reaches 50, he may still remember the numbers of every car he owned up to 40, but not ...

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    Media Watch: top-ups

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    Now that government policy on co-payments has become clearer, it's interesting to learn that MPs have been benefiting from 'top-ups' of their own.

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    Readmissions not driven by incentives

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    Shorter stays in hospital do not appear to have led to an increase in avoidable readmissions, Department of Health research has found.

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    Job evaluation could open door for market pay rates

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has opened the door to more flexibility in very senior managers’ salaries, in response to growing concern that pay rules are being fudged and gamed.

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    Edwina Hart delays reform schedule in Wales

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has accepted that the wholesale overhaul of the NHS in Wales will not be complete until next October.

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    Healthcare IT debate

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    The recent report from the King's Fund on healthcare IT doesn't reflect reality. It believes the NHS should learn from banks and even travel firms about innovating with IT but ignores the huge movement required in the public's acceptance of healthcare security.

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    Jon Restell on the NHS constitution

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    After a warm welcome earlier in the summer, the NHS constitution is now the subject of some sustained chuntering. This is wrong.

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    Trafford Healthcare trust urged to restore confidence

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    A trust that withdrew the offer of a chief executive's job two weeks after announcing the appointment has been told it should be open about the reasons.

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    Luton and Dunstable owns up to errors in E coli fallout

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    Luton and Dunstable Hospital foundation trust should have been better prepared for the fallout from the media and damage to its reputation from an E coli outbreak, its chief executive has admitted.

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    Dr Foster to take on NHS Choices with rival site

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    A private company is about to launch a free hospital data website for patients which could be more comprehensive than the £20m a year NHS Choices site.

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    Perfect chief eludes West Midlands SHA

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    NHS West Midlands has failed to appoint a chief executive despite carrying out interviews.

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    Inverse care law exposed

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    Congratulations HSJ, for exposing the inverse care law operating across the UK, and Brent in particular. It is precisely in the most deprived areas like Brent that the census-based data which feeds the funding formula most underestimates the true population that the local NHS strives to serve.

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    University College London Hospitals ploughs surplus into cancer centre

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    The foundation trust with the biggest surplus is about to start spending it.

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    Governance body slams NHS records sift

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    The health and social care information watchdog has raised concerns that the smallprint in the draft NHS constitution could undermine patient confidentiality.