News – Page 1748
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Low NHS waiting times masking wide variation in performance
The NHS has achieved historically low hospital waiting times but faces a battle to ensure the 18 week target is hit in every area by December.
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Back to work plans could penalise mental health patients
A leading mental health campaigner has dismissed proposed reforms which aim to get a million people back into work as too harsh.
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National NHS pay deal criticised
Nationally negotiated pay means commissioners' hands are tied from using bigger salaries to attract more good doctors, the Commons health select committee was told last week.
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Luton defends reputation after two babies die
A hospital trust has defended its high profile commitment to patient safety after an outbreak of a drug-resistant E coli strain on its neo-natal intensive care unit.
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Manchester mental health chief launches dismissal claim
A trust chief executive who triggered weeks of strike action after sacking a trade union official has launched an unfair dismissal claim.Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust's former chief Sheila Foley resigned in July, the day after a report, commissioned by NHS North West, criticised frequent changes of management ...
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Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme
The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.
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Yorkshire SHA takes lead on quality pledge
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber is to set up a 'quality foundation', which it claims will go one step further than the regional quality observatories recommended by Lord Darzi.
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Rose Gibb's pay off challenge: court date set
Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will go to court early next year to try to get a £250,000 pay-off.
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PCT demands payout for Heathrow runway disturbance
A primary care trust will demand a major financial compensation package for the extra strain on resources if Heathrow Airport is granted a third runway.
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Annual health check progress
In the Healthcare Commission's annual health check, seven local trusts within NHS South East Coast were rated 'excellent' for quality of service (up from two last year) and the progress continues.
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Surviving the economic crisis
It was interesting to hear senior human resources figures from British Airways and Legal and General at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development annual conference. They were clear that the only way for organisations to survive the economic crisis is for unions and employers to work towards a common ...
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World class care takes a team
The NHS is truly world class in many aspects of its clinical work but the outcome figures of a brilliant surgeon are undermined without the rest of the NHS team, who provide essential theatre cleaning, nursing and ward management. A patient-led NHS has to recognise all the worth behind the ...
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Assessing NHS performance
You criticise us for being pedantic but details matter when it comes to fairly assessing the performance of the NHS.
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Monitor chair calls on PCTs to set out plans for services
The coming years will see an increase in foundation trusts running primary care services, as well as culls of failing hospitals, executive chair of the regulator Monitor Bill Moyes has predicted.
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Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs
Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.
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Welsh NHS watchdog orders protocol review after murder
The NHS watchdog in Wales is calling on mental health service managers to review protocols for helping people with personality disorders, following a murder by a patient.
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Johnson keeps the faith on inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson says the life expectancy gap is closing and he is promising the end of GP shortages. There is more to do but this is no time for a 'counsel of despair', he tells Rebecca Evans
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NHS constitution consultation
The comments in HSJ bear no resemblance to the reality of the consultation on the NHS constitution in the East of England.
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Health inequalities: wealthiest overfunded as the poor lose out
NHS services in the poorest and most needy parts of the country are being systematically underfunded to the benefit of the healthiest and wealthiest.Analysis by HSJ of the budgets allocated to GPs to pay for drugs and hospital care for their patients show that the wealthiest tenth of the population ...
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PCTs say realpolitik is behind unequal healthcare
Primary care trusts claim confusion, self-interest and realpolitik lie at the heart of the unfair distribution of NHS resources.