Primary Care – Page 277
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Health minister hosts webchat
Health minister Andy Burnham will host a webchat this afternoon to answer questions from the public.The chat will focus on his experiences and observations from the seven days he spent shadowing a variety of frontline NHS staff last year.Ask a question on the webchat here
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New chief executive for NHS Direct
Department of Health director general of communications Matt Tee is to be the next chief executive of NHS Direct.Mr Tee was previously business development director at Dr Foster and takes over from Ed Lester, who will leave NHS Direct in May.
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Maternity care review launched
The Healthcare Commission is to carry out a review of maternity care in England following a report published today about the quality of maternity services.The report was carried out by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and was part-funded by the Healthcare Commission. It suggests most women are happy with the ...
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Committee slams NHS financial management
The Commons public accounts committee has slammed the lack of financial management expertise in the NHS.Its report says in-year information prevents the Department of Health from effectively managing national finances, and that the financial recovery plans of some trusts with large deficits have been based on unrealistic assumptions or short-term ...
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Pandemic flu guidelines published for social care
The Department of Health has published guidelines for dealing with an influenza pandemic.The guidelines, for social care staff and volunteers, is supplementary to the revised national framework on responding to a flu pandemic.Read the guidance here
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Men 'not worried about getting prostate cancer'
A poll commissioned by the Prostrate Cancer Charity suggests men are more worried about their pension that they are about the possibility of getting prostate cancer.Asked about their concerns about getting older, 32 per cent said their pension, 13 per cent said getting prostate cancer, seven per cent weight gain ...
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Review says junior doctors should get guaranteed interviews
The review group examining the selection process for junior doctors has recommended all eligible applicants are guaranteed an interview for their first or second choice of training post.The review also said those who have not been shortlisted for any interviews will have their applications reviewed.Read the press release here
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: IVF
At the crux of the present IVF debate is a lack of clarity over its role and status. Ben Troke analyses the medical and legal ramifications
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Measuring the quality of learning disability services
Inspired by recent findings the Foundation for People with Learning Difficulties has found that using metrics can provide evidence to better inform healthcare professionals. Varya Shaw reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Kate Silvester on process mapping
Mapping a process can help to solve problems, leading to savings, better efficiency and happier staff
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Major malfunction
The market-based system of payment by results is not functioning as hoped, causing adversarial relationships,
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Richard Bourne on the price of better performance
The NHS.occupies a special place in the national psyche. It is a huge organisation with the major economic consequences implied. It is at the heart of politics, with the perceived state of the NHS being a proxy for the popularity of a government.
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Doctors have feelings too
I read Anna Donald's article on doctors' motives with interest (opinion, page 17, 8 March 2007). In terms of what doctors need, it is about finding an acceptable means of emotional release.
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Your Humble Servant: life on Mars
‘The ambulance would be at least an hour and that they should do what first aid they could until the paramedics arrived’
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Burnham launches payment by results consultation
Andy Burnham has invited views on a number of ways to develop the payment by results system for 2008-09 and beyond.The ideas include strengthening payment by results data, more unbundling of tariffs, setting prices based on effective practice rather than on average costs and extending the system to more services.Read ...
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Family health initiative launched
Public health minister Caroline Flint today launched the Healthy Living Initiative, a programme to help families lead healthier lives.The programme will tackle barriers to healthy living through a range of initiatives aimed at families with young children.Ms Flint said: 'Tackling overweight and obesity in children is complex because there are ...
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BMA defends GPs over out-of-hours criticism
The British Medical Association has said that the quality of out-of-hours services is the responsibility of the local NHS - not GPs.GP committee chair Dr Hamish Meldrum agreed with the findings of a Public Accounts Committee report on out-of-hours care, but rejected the report's assertion that GPs were the only ...
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DIY service improvement kit launched
Doctors, nurses and call handlers will be able to assess their ability to identify emergencies, the quality of their advice and speed of response using a new clinical audit toolkit to help improve the standard of out-of-hours services.The arrangements are set out in a document published by health minister Andy ...
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Minister responds to continuing care report
The minister for care services Ivan Lewis has responded to the report by the health service ombudsman Retrospective Continuing Care and Redress.He recognised the difficult decisions faced by families considering residential care and said the government would isssue guidance in response to the ombudsman's recommendations.Read more here
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Lord Crisp heads bid to tackle health worker shortage
A World Health Organisation international task force co-chaired by former NHS chief executive Lord Crisp met for the first time today to tackle the global shortage of health workers.The shortfall of workers worldwide is around 4.3 million in 57 countries, including 1 million in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Initial ...