All Out of hours articles – Page 15
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News
More GP practices offering extended hours
The number of GP practices offering extended hours has reached 5,380 or 65 per cent of 8,263 practices. This is an increase from 58.9 per cent in October.
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HSJ Knowledge
Rethinking NHS out of hours care
A fictitious 82-year-old who likes a drink has helped a PCT to rethink how it delivers out of hours care. Daloni Carlisle explains
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Comment
Clinical leadership in out of hours services
The Department of Health has signalled that it may allow practice-based commissioning consortiums to take over commissioning out of hours services. Rick Stern explains why this would be good for patients and budgets
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News
Out of hours care standards to be applied to urgent care
National standards for out of hours providers could be extended to cover some in-hours services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Benchmarking out of hours healthcare
Huge variations in the cost and quality of out of hours healthcare around the country have led to moves to benchmark these services. Kaye McIntosh reports
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HSJ Knowledge
National service: health policy performance across the UK
A&E attendances and emergency admissions have shot up in recent years - but only in England. Alison Moore asks why the record is so inconsistent across the UK
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HSJ Knowledge
Uproar over mental health advocacy services delay
Campaigners are frustrated by the delay to independent advocacy for mental health patients. Stuart Shepherd reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Palliative care: on their terms
Big Lottery funding means young people in West Sussex get holistic palliative care in an environment of their choice - even if that means down on the beach
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Counter Fraud Service: watching the detectives
The NHS loses tens of millions of pounds a year to cheating, but some observers are asking if the Counter Fraud Service is getting too tough. Helen Mooney reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving out-of-hours services through collaboration
Knowledge transfer partnerships enable businesses and universities to work together in ways that benefit both parties.John Harrison explains how one urgent care provider has recently entered into such an alliance with Durham University
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HSJ Knowledge
Deaths data: under threat
The national confidential inquiries into why patients die have saved lives, but funding problems now threaten their own survival. Rebecca Norris looks at their prospects
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS fraud investigations - know your obligations
The NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service can demand that trusts produce documents under the NHS Act 2006. Here, Andrew Craggs offers advice to managers on dealing with such requests
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HSJ Knowledge
Recruitment questions: overseas staff in the NHS
A few years ago, the service was in the spotlight for plugging staffing gaps with overseas workers. Now restrictions have been imposed as vacancies evaporate. Is the NHS right to aim for a 'self-sufficient' workforce?
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HSJ Knowledge
Keith Pearson on valuing the NHS
The Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya once said of her homeland: 'For us, the best time is always yesterday.' As we prepare for the 60th anniversary of the NHS, I look around and worry that too many people believe this is as true of the NHS today as Russia in 1990. ...
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NHS60: Tougher at the top
Over the past six decades the working life of consultants may have lost some of its glamour. Now their role has to evolve if they are to regain their standing in the health service, writes David Kerr
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NHS60: 'It was the toughest two years of my life'
Being in the top job at the Department of Health means overseeing the biggest political football of all. Peter Davies and Daloni Carlisle hear six former health secretaries' memories
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NHS60: As seen on TV
Suave doctors, flirtatious nurses and evil managers. Nick Samuels looks at popular images of health professionals as portrayed in television and film