All News articles – Page 1158
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Reported maternity incidents
It would be a grave error to assume that an increase in reported maternity incident numbers - widely covered in the media last week - is a result of increasing error rates in maternity services.
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Why a health service redesign hit the rocks
With controversial reconfiguration plans in Sussex appearing shelf-bound, Alison Moore looks at the lessons for other trusts and asks whether changes on that scale are just too unwieldy to succeed
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Hold-up: Treasury eyes NHS surplus
The Treasury is in talks with the Department of Health over the NHS's £1.7bn surplus and when the service will be able to spend it.
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New formula spells end for minimum practice income guarantee
GPs and NHS Employers have agreed a formula that could phase out the minimum practice income guarantee. The guarantee has been strongly criticised, as it means GP practices suffer no financial penalty if patients choose to go elsewhere.
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Emma Dent on the credit crunch
When I was young my local council lost the equivalent of about £40m in today's money when the bank BCCI collapsed.
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NHS constitution fails to fire public's imagination
The NHS constitution is failing to attract public interest amid criticism that it is unclear about patients' rights and will not abolish the postcode lottery.
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Commissioning and decommissioning
It was with incredulity and then growing anger that I read the recent news item on commissioning.
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Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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GPs are carers not killers
I did not recognise my city, Brighton and Hove, from the quotes in the news story 'Killer conditions go unseen by GPs'.
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NHS trusts dump Capita over payroll errors
Five NHS organisations with more than 16,000 staff have ended a payroll contract with Capita after a catalogue of errors. The contract had been due to run to 2010 but was terminated last week after just 18 months.
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Maidstone boosts pay offer to tempt new chair
A salary of £44,000 is being offered for a new chair for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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Junior doctors need better supervision
Hospitals are relying too heavily on unsupervised trainee doctors for procedures that could be carried out by non-medical staff, according to the incoming chair of the postgraduate medical education training board.
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Hygiene problems will be no bar to registration with Care Quality Commission
Trusts will be allowed to register with the Care Quality Commission even if poor hygiene is putting patients at 'significant risk'.
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Trusts too optimistic over annual health check scores
Some trusts are disputing their annual health check scores as figures show many were highly over-optimistic about their performance.
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Annual health check note
Your report on the annual health check missed one vital fact: this is the second year running that NHS mental health trusts have been rated as one of the best-performing parts of the service.
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Angioplasty to be primary heart attack treatment
NHS commissioners have been asked to develop a national network of cardiology services capable of delivering primary angioplasty as the main treatment for heart attacks.
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Alan Johnson orders trusts: cut waits for speech therapy
NHS organisations must work with allied health professionals to bring down 'unacceptable' waiting times for services such as speech therapy, health secretary Alan Johnson has told them.
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Questions over who will pay bill after Chase Farm Hospital fire
Questions remain over who will foot the bill for patients transferred from a medium secure mental health unit that was destroyed in a fire.
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Hospital security fears after patient suicide
Northampton General Hospital is reviewing its security procedures after a patient shot himself dead on a ward.
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Academic health science centre race begins
Trusts hoping to form academic health science centres have been set a January deadline for applications.