North West – Page 134
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Practices and PCTs at odds over budget survey claims
Strategic health authorities have questioned whether a national survey of practice-based commissioning is valid.
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David Peat on getting world class commissioning right
Call them benchmarks, standards or targets, it is no bad thing to have aspirations and the will to achieve. It is also good to be put on the spot sometimes, to help streamline the process and refine best practice.
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Age-appropriate mental healthcare - making strides
Services for children and teenagers have long been neglected but extra funds - and a drive to keep these users off adult wards - are positive steps, says Mark Gould
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Managing diagnostic waiting lists
Setting up a reliable system to manage diagnostics appointments helped one trust cut waiting times significantly. Jayne Wood and Amy Lodge explain
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Public health campaigns: spreading the word about COPD
How do you encourage a tight-knit community to stop doing the one thing they already know is damaging their health but that they doubt they can live without? Cheshire and Merseyside Partnership for Health did just that with its 'catch your breath' campaign
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North West acute chiefs doubt private scheme value
North West acute trust chiefs are questioning the need for a new clinical assessment and treatment service run by the private sector.
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Thousands march in protest against nurse sacking
Thousands of NHS staff took to the streets of Manchester yesterday in protest against the sacking of a nurse who spoke out against the privatisation of services.
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David Peat on turning health policy into action
One of the eternal dilemmas for a chief executive is to translate the words of policy documents into meaningful action on the front line
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to world class commissioning
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations
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Karen Reissmann
A chief executive who sacked a trade unionist nurse has broken her silence after months of strike action.Sheila Foley, head ofManchestermental health and social care trust, has until now remained tight-lipped about the dismissal of senior nurse Karen Reissman, who says she lost her job for speaking out in her ...
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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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North West signs contract with private mental health provider
North West commissioners have contracted an independent provider to fill a gap in secure mental health services for men in Cheshireand Merseyside.
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HSJ Knowledge
Maternity services and breastfeeding: a lot of bottle
Unicef estimates four in 10 English maternity hospitals make no effort to encourage more mums to breastfeed. Daloni Carlisle asks what can be done to get them on board
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Team-building techniques - going beyond the comfort zone
Innovative training techniques are helping healthcare staff from the North West become managers the NHS can be proud of. Nikki Wilcock reports
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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
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Infection control: back to the boardroom
Informing the board and protecting patients were the key strands of one trust's infection control drive, writes Alison Norman
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Health inequalities: the great divide
Adding a million years to the lives of East Lancashire's population requires a big push by local partnerships, says David Peat
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IT programme: pioneer sites of summary care records named
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that more than 50,000 summary care records have now been uploaded to the 'spine' that underpins the NHS care records service.
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Mental health: unhappy old age
Dementia is far from the only mental health problem for over-65s, yet the millions who struggle with depression are scandalously neglected. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Health profile: experts say child obesity targets may miss the point
New targets to spur on efforts to tackle the nation's worst public health problems may not work, experts have warned.