All Primary care articles – Page 208
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Patient safety: the first step is saying you have a problem
One of the more delicate steps in encouraging a patient safety culture was taken last week, with the first trust by trust breakdown of safety incident reporting.
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A new plan for cardiac and vascular disease
Cardiac and vascular disease urgently needs a strategy that goes further and wider than the current framework and improves access to high quality services for far more people.
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NHS managers' pay turns red tops green with envy
Salary envy is coming to the NHS. As the recession decimates jobs, pension pots and pay rises in the private sector, newspapers are turning their cynical fire on the pay and perks of public sector managers.
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Deadline falls on drawn out tariff wrangling
Commissioners and providers were still wrangling over the controversial HRG4 tariff just days before the 13 March deadline to complete negotiations expired.
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Exclusive: Data reveals wide variation in patient safety reporting
Trusts where patient safety incidents are most likely to cause deaths, and those with the highest and lowest reporting rates, are revealed for the first time in an exclusive HSJ analysis.
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NHS job losses set to continue
The director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory has warned that health service redundancies are likely to continue at their current rate of around 54 a month.
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Connecting for Health loses policy setting role to the DH
Connecting for Health is to be stripped of its policy setting functions and turned into a delivery agent for the national programme for IT.
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Margaret Edwards quits SHA for central role
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber chief executive Margaret Edwards left her post suddenly last week to take on a new role driving efficiency across the NHS.
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Leading NHS chiefs call for London trust mergers
Competition and collaboration rules should not stand in the way of hospital trust mergers and acquisitions, two major acute trust chief executives have argued.
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Gordon Brown unveils plan to put nurses in charge of NHS services
An expert commission launched by prime minister Gordon Brown is to review the place of nurses in managing and commissioning care.
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Leicester City PCT: how to boost patient safety reporting rates
Leicester City primary care trust reports more patient safety incidents than any other NHS organisation, latest NPSA figures show.
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GPs offering extended hours in all PCT areas
GP practices in all primary care trust areas are now offering extended hours, the Department of Health's latest figures reveal.
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Talk to me: PCTs hone their haggling skills
World class commissioning demands new skills of primary care trusts – not least managing the market to get the highest quality and best value care for patients. Helen Crump finds out how they are coping
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Scottish bill to ban private GP provision
Health policy in Scotland has moved further from English policy with a bill that will prevent private companies from running GP services.
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World class commissioning league table: PCTs exceed expectations in year one
Primary care trusts have made a solid start on world class commissioning and 27 have led the way with green lights for strategy, board governance and finance.
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For the highest calibre NHS leaders, this is your chance to shine
As HSJ's exclusive world class commissioning league table reveals this week, most primary care trusts have emerged from the first round of world class commissioning with good foundations in place.
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NHS is a 'brutal' place for its leaders
The NHS is a “brutal” and “arbitrary” system in which to be a chief executive, according to leaders interviewed by the NHS Confederation.Its report, Reforming Leadership Development… Again, examines whythis area is reformed so often. Health minister Lord Darzi’s leadership proposals in his next stage review are the fourth reorganisation ...
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Triple red rated PCT outlines its transformation plans
The chief executive of one of the poorest performers in this year’s world class commissioning process has promised his primary care trust will be “a different organisation” by next year.
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Treasury PFI scheme could be funded by NHS underspends
NHS capital underspends could be clawed back by the Treasury to fund its plans to lend money to stalled private finance initiative schemes, HSJ has been told.
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Sir Michael Rawlins reappointed NICE chair
Sir Michael Rawlins has been reappointed as chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence after a special exemption to allow him to extend his tenure.