News – Page 1158
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Personal branding: arm yourself with the right image
Is your image secure? In the latest in her series on branding, Debbie Smith offers a guide to reputation management
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New social enterprises to be offered uncontested contracts
New social enterprises in the health sector will be offered uncontested contracts for up to three years.
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Calls for more mental health funding as economic worries increase
Mental health charity Mind has called for more investment in services to help cope with an expected surge in demand caused by the economic downturn.
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Department of Health appoints deputy chief nursing officer
David Foster has been appointed as deputy chief nursing officer at the Department of Health.
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Report reveals financial benefits of medical research
Every pound invested in cardiovascular disease research brings benefits worth 39p a year, forever, academics have calculated.The year-long study into the financial and social benefits of investment in medical research, led by Brunel University, found that for mental health research the benefits were 37p per pound invested each year.
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Scotland slashes diagnostic waiting times
The Scottish NHS has slashed diagnostic waiting times but must now ensure that services are as efficient as possible.
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Hospitals making progress on blood clot risk assessments
The number of hospital trusts assessing patients for deadly blood clots has more than doubled in the past year - but trusts must do more to protect patients, MPs are warning.
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Emma Dent on the need for a national hygiene drive
Obviously I'm in favour of tight infection controls in hospitals, but don't you feel for the mitts of the staff having to wash them dozens of times a day? They must get red raw.
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MPs get tough on alcoholism
MPs have grilled Department of Health officials including permanent secretary Hugh Taylor and senior medical officer Mark Prunty over alcohol dependency figures published by the National Audit Office.
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Foundation trust websites leave patients in the dark
Foundation trusts' communications skills have been called into question after it was revealed that four in 10 trust websites lacked basic information on service quality.
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UK risks a weaker role in EU health decisions
Devolution is weakening the UK's ability to influence the EU's growing hold over health policy, a report from the Nuffield Trust warns.
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PbR tariff for next year delayed until January
The final payment by results tariff for 2009-10 will be published in January, around three months late.
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Audit Commission slams £37.9m deal at Whipps Cross University Hospital trust
The Audit Commission has issued a public interest report outlining 'serious concerns' about a £37.9m back-dated procurement deal at Whipps Cross University Hospital trust.
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Where are the women in the HSJ50?
I was sorry to see only eight of the HSJ50 are women, and none of the top 10.
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HSJ50 is no surprise
Shock horror! The top three most powerful people in current NHS policy are 1) the specially created health minister 2) the chief executive and 3) the health secretary.
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HSJ50 guilt
I am dismayed to see so few women and virtually no representatives from a black and minority ethnic background among the top 50. Is there a twinge of guilt somewhere?
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HSJ50 shows lack of NHS diversity
Can it really be true that only one of the people who deserves a place in the HSJ50 - Lord Darzi - is apparently from a visible ethnic minority?
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Presumed consent for organ donation
The British Medical Association has long enthusiastically supported presumed consent for organ donation, while strongly opposing presumed consent for doctors uploading patient records to a central electronic database. This leads to the suspicion that ethics, to the BMA, are what best suits doctors.
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Mental health under the microscope
I enjoyed Charles Kaye and Michael Howlett's analysis of mental health services yet failed to see where the 'gloss' was in any of the stories listed at the start of the article.
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Obesity leaves eating disorders in the shade
While national guidelines have stimulated change in crisis areas of mental health, eating disorders are only just beginning to receive the attention and specialist services sufferers need. Alison Moore reports