All Policy articles – Page 272
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Public consultation to decide on the NHS's next step
Public 'juries' in 10 cities linked up live last week to kick off a huge consultation to help decide nothing less than the NHS's future. And the prime minister put in a suprise appearance. Helen Mooney reports
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Jail deaths probe
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health is investigating the impact of powers allowing judges to lock up prisoners indefinitely.
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Comment
Department should explain itself on race
The new health secretary is passionate about tackling health inequalities. With race a central factor, he will be appalled at the catalogue of race equality failures at the Department of Health that the Commission for Racial Equality claims to have unearthed.
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DoH 'letting down ethnic minorities'
The Department of Health has been found to have failed in its race equality duties and accused of being ‘obstructive’ to a Commission for Racial Equality probe.
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Adoption award added to bursary scheme
Adoption and maternity support awards will be introduced to the NHS bursary scheme from September 2007 following an agreement between the Department of Health and unions.
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Reports on disabled service events published
Graphic and audiovisual reports of Department of Health events held with disabled service users, their families and organisations have been published.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health hotel: the road less travelled
What is the safe distance to a hospital? Adrian O'Dowd examines the implications of reconfiguring services
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Darzi citizens' jury gives PM and Johnson wish list
The prime minister this week joined the health secretary and health minister Lord Darzi at one of a series of ‘citizens’ juries’ on health.Gordon Brown, Alan Johnson and Lord Darzi talked to around 120 patients and selected members of the public about their priorities for the health service at an ...
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Renewed efforts to set up national tariff
Mental health trusts are signing up to new payment by results pilots, although fears remain that a national system will not be implemented.
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£1.7bn general practice overspend
The government spent £1.7bn more on general practices in England than it said it would since 2003, new NHS figures have revealed.Between 2003-04 and 2005-06, the government spent £20.5bn - 9.2 per cent more than it promised under the gross investment guarantee when new GP contracts were introduced.
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Call for comparable data across care services
All health and social care providers must publish comparable data and information, Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has said.
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Comment
Old-style GPs may go the same way as Britain's motor industry
‘Dr Buckman is in danger of doing for primary care what Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson did for the British motor industry in the 1970s’
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Primary care inequalities to be Johnson's top focus
Health secretary Alan Johnson has pledged to put primary care at the centre of the government drive to improve the UK's health.
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Leader
Time to come clean on the private sector
‘The role of independent providers under Gordon Brown is one of the most opaque areas of health policy’
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Private sector 'jaded' over contracts
The private sector is growing increasingly concerned that the government will row back on its plans to use independent healthcare providers to expand its NHS choice programme.
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Lib Dems: time to scrap PCTs
Primary care trusts should be scrapped and replaced with elected local health boards, the Liberal Democrats have proposed.
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DoH publishes long-awaited review plan
The Department of Health has published its overdue plans to provide a better service following a damning government review.
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2,000 in move to own homes
Nearly 2,000 people with learning disabilities are to be moved into their own homes after the DH announced £175m in funding for primary care trusts to close NHS institutions.
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07/08/16/n/budgetsnib/lh
Patients should be a given a personal budget to pay for their healthcare directly, according to a report from the University of Birmingham’s Health Services Management Centre.The paper suggests personalised budgets would empower NHS patients to take control of their care, similar to direct payments for social care. Our ...