News – Page 2610
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Time to turn the tables and give NHS data it deserves
Performance indicators are essential part of service's accountability
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Shhhhhh, whisper who dares. . .
. . . but increase in manager workforce is cause for celebration
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Retro chic rules the roost
Sometimes it seems as if the NHS is not so much being modernised as going back in time - a case of 'back to the future'.
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WEB WATCH
If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...
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Damned by the Dame who looks down from on high
When Tory MP Graham Brady rang to say he'd just held a revealing debate on patronage in health boards, I commiserated. That was all well and good, but didn't he know that Tony Blair had just staged a rare press conference, White House-style, at Number 10? Or that ministers were ...
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Shape up or ship out
More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports
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Healer's digest
Having meals round a table with other people encourages patients to eat more. Heather Hartwell and John Edwards report
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Picking up the pieces
A jointly funded residential service accepts 'difficult-to-place' mental patients, whose care in the community has previously failed. Andy Ward and Jon Woolmore explain
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Out of harm's way
Doctors who murder are rare. But doctors' deliberate harm to patients is well documented. Paul McDonald argues for better external scrutiny
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New rights act will hit clinical negligence
Trusts are anxiously awaiting 2 October, implementation day for the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English law.
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NHS can insist on advance payments from overseas patients
The NHS can charge in advance for treatment for overseas visitors, two judges have ruled in yet another judicial review.