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Access to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers
A new report, A service user evaluation of the services offered by the Health Access Teamis available on the webpage of the Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Care Network.
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Are GPs making inappropriate referrals to orthopaedic surgeries?
General practitioners have a pivotal role in providing medical care for the NHS - acute referrals to various hospital specialties are often arranged by them. But inappropriate referrals can cause unnecessary inconvenience for the patients and affect the target times for care provision in A&E.
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Legal briefing: how penalties will work under the new model contract for acute trusts
The Department of Health has recently published two forms of model contract for the provision of acute hospital services, both within and outside the scope of the national tariff. The models are in legally and non-legally binding form for use by foundation trusts, hospital Trusts and PCT commissioners. We would ...
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How to run health networks for young people
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has released a report calling for health services for children and young people to be delivered within networks of care.
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Statutory control on decisions is not enough to allay fears
All over the country, primary care trust chief executives are sitting hot and sweaty in their best suits, fighting for their future careers.
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HSJ barometer: public health June 2006
Directors of public health tended to be less confident about hitting their local targets for 2006-07 than they were for last year, with scores falling against drug treatment and alcohol dependency, although scores for smoking cessation rose slightly.
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Noel Plumridge on questioning commissioning
As HSJreaders will be aware, the Department of Health is keen to improve standards of commissioning in the NHS.Much has been written in recent months about demand-management techniques (or rationing, as we used to call it) being the route to financial happiness. About the ...
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Michael White on politics
'All's fair in love and politics and Labour used to say 'Tory cuts' when it really meant smaller increases'
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Michael White on politics
In my youth the old Liberal Party could squeeze into Margate or magnificent Scarborough
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Sophia Christie on challenging acute trusts
'A trust has never pointed out where the tariff gives a generous cross-subsidy to other activity'
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Get reform back on track and finance will follow
The NHS financial crisis was not caused by too much reform too quickly, but by too little too late, argues Keith Palmer. Efforts to restore balance should not be allowed to delay it further
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Why binning bad habits will take the fudge out of finance
The Audit Commission's recommendations on redesigning the NHS's management of finance marks a fundamental shift in accountability, culture, planning and spending, argues Andy McKeon
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Noel Plumridge on disinvestment and decluttering
What would NHS managers dump on the hospital lawn ready for the crusher or eBay?
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Michael white on politics
'NHS managers planning new hospitals or services might start thinking greener than they have done up to now'
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HSJ Barometer: PCTs Oct 2006
There were significant rises in a number of key indicators in the latest Barometer survey of primary care trust chief executives. Faith in the national IT programme has continued to rise, and there has been a big boost in optimism on keeping a grip on elective activity. The only noticeable ...
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Data briefing: prescribing variations by PCT
In 2004-05, prescribing cost nearly £8bn in England - over 681 million items at an average of nearly 13 per GP list patient and £150 per year.
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Michael White on politics
What made me flinch wasn't those weekend reports that UK cancer patients are turning to Canadian online pharmacies for drugs they cannot yet get on the NHS.
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Variation in A&E admissions
Across England the rise in emergency admissions to hospital shows no sign of abating. Alongside it, bed days also continue to rise. The year-on-year rise in emergency admissions in the first quarter of 2006 was 7 per cent, while the corresponding rise in bed days was 5.9 per cent.