All Policy articles – Page 279
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Tooke reports on doctors' training
Modernising Medical Careers does not provide doctors with enough broad experience by encouraging them to specialise early in their careers, according to an independent report on the system.The Tooke report says it does not allow for enough flexibility to meet the system's needs and calls for it to undergo fundamental ...
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Latest referral times data released
The latest referral to treatment times for patients whose 18-week clock stopped in July have been released.
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Healthcare Commission finds hygiene code is 'not hitting the headlines' in acute trusts
Acute trust boards are not taking enough responsibility for controlling infection in their hospitals, the healthcare watchdog has warned.Spot checks on 43 hospitals by the Healthcare Commission have revealed concerns that boards are not regularly discussing opportunities for improvement or ensuring infection control data is analysed effectively.
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NICE chief asks for divorce from DoH
The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said that it would function better if it were set free from the Department of Health.
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Report demands end to top-down direction and return of professional autonomy
Clinicians want the government to let them get on with 'doing the right thing for the patient'.
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Tories struggle to make their own room in the centre ground
This week in Blackpool the Conservative Party conference promised to scrap top-down targets - and end the postcode lottery.
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Fundamental change key to NHS vision, says Darzi
Lord Darzi will today tell the NHS that it has to make fundamental changes to the way it operates.
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Tories stake a claim to be the patient-centred party
The Conservatives have fired their salvo in the battle to prove they are the party that can deliver a patient-centred NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
A clinical vision for service redesign
When clinicians were asked to design their ideal service, common design rules quickly emerged. As Nigel Edwards and William Dunlop explain, these closely matched the views of patients
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Michael White on the shadow health secretary
Now that Gordon Brown has started to open up in public and chancellor Alistair Darling has put a couple of jokes into his conference speech, there is no stopping the confessional flood in politics. Even Andrew Lansley has been affected.
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Darzi report stresses equality and access
Health secretary Alan Johnson says he is confident GPs can be persuaded to provide the additional services proposed in Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, published this morning.But he made clear that the private sector would also be a part of moves to set up 150 new walk-in centres and ...
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Darzi to outline findings of NHS review
Junior health minister Lord Darzi will today outline the full findings of his review of the NHS.This will include the establishment of a Health Innovation Council to 'develop and deploy hi-tech healthcare such as medical devices and diagnostics'.Visit hsj.co.uk today for more updates on the review as they emerge
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HSJ Knowledge
Palliative care: 'a good death is part of life'
The hospice movement has made major advances in end-of-life care but more change is needed. With a government advisory group due to report, Mark Gould looks at the issues
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Legal smoking age increases
The age at which tobacco can be bought legally increases from 16 to 18 today.Public health minister Dawn Primarolo said the move would help shopkeepers spot underage smokers and reduce the number of young people who become addicted to nicotine.
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Hamish calls for more cash
The chairman of the British Medical Association has told a government minister that more money and staff will be needed to improve GP access. Dr Hamish Meldrum spoke out after Ben Bradshaw, the health minister with responsibility for primary care, said more GPs were needed in under doctored areas and ...
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Funding review submitted to Scottish Parliament
The independent body charged with reviewing NHS health board funding has submitted its final report to the Scottish Parliament.
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Labour conference: health secretary tackles flagging morale and 24-hour drinking
Improving the morale of staff is not the first aim of Lord Darzi's review of the future of the NHS, health secretary Alan Johnson has admitted - but 'buy-in' by employees will be essential to its success.
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Media Watch: for and against healthcare privatisation
HSJ readers will be well aware of the three-month battle to get health secretary Alan Johnson off the fence and spelling out his policy on the private sector.This week that battle spilled off the pages of HSJ and the Financial Times and into The Times and The Guardian. A coincidence? ...
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Johnson at odds with prime minister over alcohol licensing laws
Health secretary Alan Johnson has publicly dismissed the chief medical officer's concerns about extended licensing hours - a view that now appears to put him at odds with his own prime minister.
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Outgoing deputy CMO says overseas applications are NHS's biggest problem
The outgoing deputy chief medical officer has called on ministers to make a quick decision on what to do about overseas doctors applying for training posts in 2008.