All News articles – Page 1363
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PCTs want new look at politics
The relationship between the NHS and politicians needs to be 'redefined', according to an NHS Confederation poll of primary care trust managers.
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Two-year turnaround visits likely
Some turnaround teams sent in to trusts could be there for up to two years, the head of the NHS has admitted to MPs.
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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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Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
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Tariff system will reshape specialist trust landscape
'If the Michael Porter view won converts in this country it would mark a major and highly controversial change in the specialist infrastructure.'
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Have a moan, you know you want to...
Hospital patients with a gripe were urged to speak up in a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of complaining.
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We will keep it local, says Scots minister
Scotland's cabinet secretary for health and well-being has announced the new executive government would take 'an assumption against centralisation of services'.
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Protestors slam IPPR reconfiguration report
An umbrella group of health workers, unions and patients opposed to privatisation and closure plans have rubbished Institute for Public Policy Research reconfiguration claims.
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Inequalities rife
Health inequalities as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality are getting worse, despite high-profile targets, the Department of Health has admitted. In its mid-year performance review to the Commons, the DoH said it was not on course to meet six of the 22 performance indicators set as part of ...
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Responses to independence roundtable
It appears that participants in the roundtable discussion on independence of the NHS pulled their punches. Let me not pull mine.
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Improvement notice for trust
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been served with an improvement notice after it became the first trust to fail to comply with the hygiene code.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on a year of imagination
'I'd like us to look back on a time when people came to a big shed and had 10 minutes with the expert'
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Old is not ill
With more and more people living longer, the health service and its partners must address some communities' low expectations on quality of life, says Claire Laurent
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How to be top
What is the secret of healthcheck ratings success? Loyal staff and paying close attention to what the public expects are key ingredients, hears Lynne Greenwood, as she talks to the two acute trusts with gold-standard ratings
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Lessons from history
'I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising'
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Hewitt to review pharmacy regulation
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced a review of the way entry into the community pharmacy market is regulated, but said the government has got the system about right.
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Hewitt hints at likely loss of Monitor regulatory role
Monitor is expected to lose its current regulatory role in the government's review of healthcare regulation, although a decision on its future will not be taken until the autumn.
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Hewitt slates 'media myths'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt used her speech to the NHS Confederation's annual conference to acknowledge a 'difficult, often bruising' year and to attack media 'myths'.
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Hemel Hospital to lose key services
Hemel Hempstead Hospital is to be stripped of its acute services despite a 30-year campaign to keep services in the town.