All Policy articles – Page 204
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NewsSwine flu fears increase as WHO ups alert level for second time
The World Health Organisation has raised its pandemic flu alert level for the second time in the space of a week, increasing fears that a global outbreak is inevitable.
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NewsPCT poll backs Alan Johnson on swine flu pandemic
NHS organisations are backing up health secretary Alan Johnson’s assertion this week that the UK is one of the countries most prepared to deal with a flu pandemic.
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NewsPilot will boost patient role in GP service plans
Private companies will tell GPs how to make their services more customer friendly under plans to boost patients’ role in shaping primary care services.
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Comment
Michael White on the Budget crisis
A shadow Cabinet heavyweight summed up the Budget crisis with brutal clarity: “We have been paying nurses by taxing bankers’ bonuses. It’s unsustainable,” the MP observed with some sadness.
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NewsCrunch time: coming to terms with NHS funding cuts
Public sector spending projections raise the spectre of real terms cuts from 2011. Sally Gainsbury dissects the figures and looks at the options for the NHS as growth makes way for austerity
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NHS culture stifling innovation, Confed warns
The NHS is stifling innovation through an organisational culture that places barriers in the way of staff with good ideas, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on NHS cultures
My problem with a single powerful culture comes from growing up in the 1950s. English culture was pleased with itself. Its rejection of difference threatened that the cost of being different would be high. You would be on your own.
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Dental surgeries could extend opening hours
Primary care trusts are to begin a £150m procurement process which could see dental surgeries opening outside normal hours.
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CommentMedia Watch: swine flu
The Department of Health was quick to offer reassurance at the start of this week after warnings of a pandemic of a new killer flu virus.
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CommentJenny Rogers on predictable irrationality in the NHS
The notorious US bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked why he raided banks so prolifically, allegedly answered, “because that’s where the money is”.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Overtreated - Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
This rebuts the idea that healthcare costs have to rise, says Stephen Black
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NewsManagers in Partnership 'disappointed' with Rose Gibb judgement
Managers in Partnership, Rose Gibb’s trade union, today said it was disappointed with the High Court decision not to uphold her claim for breach of contract.
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NewsRose Gibb judgement is 'the right decision', says Maidstone chief
The chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has welcomed the High Court judgement that it did not breach its former chief executive Rose Gibb’s contract.
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NewsAlan Johnson: UK among best prepared for swine flu outbreak
Health secretary Alan Johnson has attempted to calm fears over an outbreak of a new strain of flu called swine influenza.
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HSJ KnowledgePut co-ordinators at the heart of organ donation
The NHS has been challenged with upping organ donation. Stuart Shepherd looks at the vital role transplant co-ordinators can play in meeting this ambition
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NewsPublic spending cuts will be worse than predicted - Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public spending will be cut by 2.3 per cent a year in real terms from 2011-12 onwards, analysts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said.
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Leader
Budget confirms that clinicians must accept responsibility for managing money
The arid financial landscape for the health service confirmed in yesterday’s Budget means the days of clinicians avoiding responsibility for managing money are over.
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CommentSteve Onyett on leading the NHS for alignment
An earlier column explored the first two of the Department of Health’s change principles for the NHS: co-production and “subsidiarity”. Both seek to get people working together to effect change by enabling them to fully exercise their power and authority.
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CommentYour Humble Servant rides with the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
‘System alignment is everyone agreeing with the DH that these are four bloody good principles’
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CommentKieran Walshe on evidence based decision making in the NHS
NHS managers need to read and engage with the latest data and evidence on health service organisation - and researchers must present this in forms busy managers can use