All North East articles – Page 56
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Comment
Stephen Eames on managing by fear
Up here in the North East the community is still reeling from the collapse of Northern Rock and is now watching with horror the ongoing farcical spectacle that is Newcastle United Football Club.
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News
PCTs launch chlamydia TV campaign
Primary care trusts in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear have created a regional TV advert for chlamydia screening starring local young people.
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HSJ Partners
Information Centre reports on NHS dentistry
A patient undergoing NHS dental treatment under the new contractual arrangements is more likely to have dentures or tooth extractions and less likely to have fillings or crowns than under the old arrangements, a report released by the NHS Information Centre suggests.
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NHS North East publishes workforce plans
The first major regional workforce proposals published since the next stage review appear to confirm the strong role given to strategic health authorities.NHS North East is creating a new regional-level organisation called NHS Education North East.
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HSJ Partners
Former Health Foundation award holder takes on prosthetics role
Former Health Foundation award holder Jane Cumming has been appointed as the first lead consultant physiotherapist for prosthetics in the NHS at South Tees trust.
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News
Healthy Futures programme appoints director
A senior nurse and former patients' champion for accident and emergency services has been appointed as the new programme director for the Healthy Futures North East reconfiguration programme.
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Regions braced for change as plans put Darzi's vision on map
The strategic health authorities have set out their stalls but is there anything new in the proposals and are they likely to make regional variations in care inevitable? Alison Moore investigates
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HSJ KnowledgeHow does the UK compare at commissioning?
World class commissioning will require an international perspective on health and well-being. It is not enough for PCTs and SHAs to compare similar organisations in England or even the UK.
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News
Darzi review: North East sets targets for 'region of paradox'
Eight-month targets designed to eliminate health service 'paradoxes' are the cornerstone of NHS North East's Darzi vision.
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Darzi review: North East vows to improve public health
NHS North East has pledged to renew its focus on public health and long-term conditions in its regional Darzi review.
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Inquiry shows gap in paediatric training
Children and young people with life-threatening illness are not being treated appropriately because professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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HSJ Knowledge
Who cares for the carers?
People caring for a relative are a vital part of the health and social care system - but many feel isolated. A national strategy aims to help by making GPs and community services more carer friendly. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Comment
Clean record
Media Watch reported that according to the Mail on Sunday, NHS North East spent £150,000 on cardboard nurses.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS team wins Investors in Children accreditation
Staff at Hart Lodge, part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust, have become the first NHS child learning disability team to gain Investors in Children accreditation.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS team wins Investors in Children accreditation
Staff at Hart Lodge, part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust, have become the first NHS child learning disability team to gain Investors in Children accreditation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating the perfect acute hospital
Judges for the HSJ Award for acute healthcare organisation of the year said if you pulled together all the best practice around the country, you would have the perfect trust. So what would it look like, asks Daloni Carlisle
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News
New practices for under-doctored areas
Thirty-eight primary care trusts identified as having the poorest provision of GPs have been selected as the first to benefit from 100 new GP practices over three years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Managed learning network
A year of regional networking events held by the Care Services Improvement Partnership in the north of England has facilitated managed learning