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News analysis Trusts feel impact as PFI and payment by results collide
Four days after arrival in post, new trust chief executive Mary Wells found herself working with a crisis team sent in to turn around a maternity unit in serious trouble. Eighteen months later, Daloni Carlisle hears what was wrong and how it was tackled
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Comment: Why a US management guru has vital questions for the NHS
'Michael Porter's book has caught the imagination of many of the most influential voices in NHS reform and has been occupying minds at the highest level throughout this year.'
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Northern Ireland surgical waiting times falling
Health minister Paul Goggins has announced that the number of people waiting six months for surgery at the end of September was 3,786, a drop of 1,358 (26.4 per cent) on the previous quarter. The number of people waiting six months for outpatient appointments fell by 11,168 over the same ...
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Fatal hepatitis B warning for care homes
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority has issued a warning of the danger of spreading Hepatitis B due to inappropriate use of certain lancing devices in care homes. It has already resulted in 18 confirmed cases since March 2004 causing acute infection and three deaths in six homes.The MHRA ...
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Become a 'dignity in care' champion
The Department of Health has written to all strategic health authorities, local authorities and primary care trusts asking them to raise the profile of treating people receiving care services with dignity and to encourage local people to sign up as champions to spread best practice.Read more ...
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£18.5m boost for independent living
Health minister Ivan Lewis today named 10 successful local authority partnerships which will share an £18.5m fund designed to help older people maintain an independent life.The award is part of the Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPs), where services are targeted towards people with a broad range of needs from ...
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New stroke toolkit will save lives
National director for heart disease Professor Roger Boyle has issued new guidance and a toolkit providing advice to commissioners on good practice on improving stroke services. It highlights key issues to consider and summarises supporting resources.The toolkit, ASSET, is to assist NHS commissioners modernise stroke services. By using their own ...
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£1m ploughed into Northern Irish telehealth initiatives
Northern Ireland health minister Paul Goggins pledged £1m for telehealth and telemedicine projects in the health service.He said the new technologies would help the NHS cope with the impact of an ageing population.Read the press release here
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Welsh hospices to benefit from funding boost
Hospices are to benefit from £14.4m for 'key services' pledged by Welsh finance minister Sue Essex.Under the Welsh National Assembly's revised budget, hospices will benefit from the extra funds along with schools, higher education, foster care, domestic violence victims, disabled children and firefighters.
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Measures to make people fitter unveiled
A package of measures to help inactive people become fitter have been unveiled by public health minister Caroline Flint.She said pilots had shown that physical activity interventions are cost-effective and can save the NHS money in the long-term by reducing ill health.An exercise referral scheme resulted in more than 70 ...
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Sir Liam: public health was rushed
The chief medical officer for England has revealed that he was given just two hours to insert a reference to public health into the Department of Health's key policy document, Commissioning a Patient-led NHS.
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PCTs 'should have more responsibility for prisoners'
Primary care trusts should be given responsibility and funding for the treatment of prisoners outside jail, to ensure that decisions not to treat people within the prison walls are based on clinical imperatives.The 'escorts and bedwatches' study, jointly funded by the Department of Health ...
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Alliance warns of NHS emergency
The NHS will face a 'medical emergency' if it fails to get clinicians - especially GPs - on board for its reform agenda, according to NHS Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon.He told the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence conference that new professional executive committees must include greater clinical ...
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Hospital campaigns could cause 1,000 unnecessary deaths: think tank
The Institute for Public Policy Research has concluded that campaigns to save services currently provided in district general hospitals could lead to more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths a year.Associate director Richard Brookes said: 'On the strength of the evidence, people should be out on the streets campaigning for changes to ...
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Independent provider quality indicators put online
Independent healthcare provider BUPA has published its clinical and service quality indicators online. The information includes infection, readmission and return to theatre rates.For more information click here
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Physical activity mapping questionnaire launched
A questionnaire to help GPs determine the level of physical activity carried out by patients has been published.For more information click here
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PCTs should be more accountable, chiefs say
A poll of PCT chief executives and chairs has found that they think their organisations need to be more accountable to patients and local communities. Almost half felt foundation trust style membership could help strengthen local accountability.www.nhsconfed.org
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Scottish mental health delivery plan published
The Scottish Executive has published a mental health delivery plan, including basic mental health training for everyone who works with children, halving admissions of children and young people to adult beds and reducing anti-depressant prescribing and repeat hospital admissions for mental illness.To read the plan click ...
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Czars make case for service reconfiguration
National director for emergency access Sir George Alberti has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration of access to emergency care services. And national director for heart disease and stroke Professor Roger Boyle has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration in heart disease ...
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A networking approach to commissioning
Intelligent commissioning will not succeed unless commissioners at all levels are able to profit from the experience of others and understand their own contribution in the context of the contributions of others