All Policy articles – Page 273
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HSJ Knowledge
David Lee on encouraging honesty
Once again, it is the time of year when a young manager's thoughts turn to the staff survey. The NHS staff survey is the largest of its kind in the world, and annual familiarity can breed contempt. But the results have a way of impacting on organisations' parts that even ...
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Human rights let down by existing law
Human rights should be enshrined in health service delivery, according to a report calling for new duties to protect the rights of older people in hospitals and care homes.A joint committee on human rights report this week said existing legislation does not sufficiently protect and promote the rights of older ...
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Your Humble Servant: do as I say
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Do as I say not as I doDear DonI gather your fact-finding summer visit to South Africa with Mrs Wise and the children went well. Your thoughts on ambulance response times on safari have given our colleagues down there much ...
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Michael White on politics
The old saying that 'it never rains but it pours' seems unusually apt this soggy summer. But this week the saying also applied to Britain's elderly people when the High Court ruling on Aricept, the Alzheimer's drug, was accompanied by a torrent of reports highlighting deficient aspects of their treatment.One ...
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Darzi to host webchat
Health minister Lord Darzi is to host a webchat to answer questions about the Our NHS, Our Future consultation.The Department of Health is inviting questions for the webchat, to be broadcast at 10am on 27 September.
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Johnson and Darzi start public engagement events
Health secretary Alan Johnson and junior health minister Lord Darzi have begun meeting the public in what the Department of Health has called 'one of the largest engagementeventsin the history of the NHS'.
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Three-year waits for digital aids
The average maximum wait across theUKfor digital hearing aids is twice the English target of 18 weeks and some patients are still waiting for up to three years, according to a survey by the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists.Although waits for digital hearing aids are down, it said patients ...
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EU, Europe
The NHS Confederation this week launched a new unit to help NHS organisations get to grips with European policy and its potential impact on UK health services.The NHS European Unit will be funded by the strategic health authorities and based in London and Brussels.It will be headed up by Elisabetta ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Chapter and diverse
Assessing your organisation for equality, especially in regard to the less legislated areas of sexual orientation and faith, does not have to be daunting, says Katherine Cowan
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New public health director appointed
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Agency chief executive Angela McNab has been appointed on a six-month secondment to the Department of Health as Director of Public Health Performance and Delivery.
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PCTs attacked in MPs' report
Too many primary care trusts are 'paying lip service' to a government programme intended to boost quality and safety after a string of high-profile scandals in the NHS, according to a report published by the cross-party public accounts committee.
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HSJ Knowledge
A look at long-term care
The national framework for NHS continuing healthcare comes into force on 1 October. Eve Francis gives a legal perspective on the implications of the framework for PCTs and NHS trusts and the pros and cons of the new regime
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Bradshaw calls for action to fix primary care democratic deficit
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has raised the prospect of a shake-up of local governance after he issued a warning that there is a 'problem' with primary care trusts' accountability to their patients.
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GPs come out against polyclinics
The Royal College of GPs has criticised the introduction of NHS polyclinics proposed by junior health minister Lord Darzi as part of his vision for the future of the NHS.
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Alliance: PBC will transform health service
The NHS Alliance has given practice-based commissioning a vote of confidence in a report released today.Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned the policy would not go far enough if ...
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Public expecting too much as spending cuts approach
Local managers need more accountability and stronger support from politicians when making tough decisions, a think tank has claimed.
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BUPA expected to provide 'external support' for PCT
Hillingdon primary care trust is set to name BUPA as the company it plans to use to help it commission services under the Department of Health's external commissioner list, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Go on Darling, open up those vaults of secrecy
Alistair Darling's comprehensive spending review will bring real-terms cuts to many public services but it could also highlight the lack of transparency on how priorities are reached, says Colin Talbot
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Nurses to decide on pay offer
The Royal College of Nursing will this weekend make a decision on the government's pay offer for this year.
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One year on, the message from Nicholson is that he's listening
NHS chief executive David Nicholson is in no doubt of the strength of staff's opposition to more change, or to their distaste for the idea of organisations competing against each other. Rebecca Evans quizzed him on what those staff can expect next