All Primary care articles – Page 213
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News
Patient choice push for long-term conditions
Commissioners should be promoting patient choice for people with long-term conditions, the Department of Health has advised.
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Probe into learning disabilities deaths
An independent confidential inquiry is to look at premature deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care, the government has announced.Health secretary Alan Johnson also said a public health observatory would be established to provide national and local-level data to support commissioning for people with learning disabilities.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS staff wellbeing: get fighting fit
Attracting the best staff is essential to the success of the NHS - the next step is to keep them healthy. Julian Topping explains
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Bill sets out personal health budget proposals
A health bill setting out proposals to pilot personal budgets for patients has been published today by the Department of Health.Under measures laid out in the bill, payments would for the first time be handed directly to patients to give them greater control over their care.
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DH publishes reactions to pharmacy consultation
An analysis of responses to the Department of Health's proposals to improve pharmacy services has been published.
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CV fraud: readers react to the story on hsj.co.uk
"It is time that all chief executives, directors and associate directors should obtain a full accreditation and registration with a recognised professional body similar to the General Medical Council, General Dental Council etc before applying to any post at that level in the NHS. This is the only way to ...
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CV lands lying manager in jail sparking wider fears on checks
Two NHS managers have been sentenced in the space of a week for lying to get jobs - with one former primary care trust director jailed for three months.The cases have prompted concerns that trusts may regularly be failing to check credentials, raising the possibility of undiscovered fraud across the ...
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Low hopes for dementia strategy as cash dries up
Mental health experts who advised the government on the delayed dementia strategy are 'braced for disappointment' amid fears it is being substantially watered down due to the worsening economy.
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Choose and book glitches lose trusts income
Hospitals are losing income because they are failing to get to grips with the Department of Health's choose and book system.
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Department steps up push for separate PCT provider arms
The Department of Health has turned up the heat under primary care trusts following concerns over the quality of their plans to separate their provider arms.
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Leader
Darzi review: MPs' shallow analysis sheds no light
The Commons health committee has delivered a devastating critique of primary care trusts.
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Corrigan quits NHS London amid shake-up
NHS London director Paul Corrigan is leaving the organisation as it prepares to hive off some of its major functions to a newly created body.
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HSJ KnowledgeHealth spending: how much does it cost to save a life?
We know the economic outlook is bleak and there are growing concerns about how this will affect spending in the NHS. So it is timely to consider the extent to which healthcare spending yields patient benefits.
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NHS South Central blazes a trail on water fluoridation
The consultation over putting fluoride in water supplies on the south coast is proving a ‘totemic argument between state and individual’. Other areas will be watching the outcome closely, reports Rebecca Evans
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NICE backs changes to end of life drugs policy
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to proceed with controversial plans to broaden access to drugs for terminally ill people.
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NHS archive documents: secret papers show history repeating itself
A recession, rising unemployment, escalating demand for health services and the tricky issue of how to improve the NHS with little or no new cash.
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Comment
Patient choice: Apple's way will bear most fruit
Patient choice means NHS organisations must act more like businesses to win customers. The best will look to companies like Apple, which build their services from the 'outside in'
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Comment
Simon Stevens on an NHS game plan for 2009
Happy New Year. Or is it? With so much talk of recession and economic gloom, it's easy to forget the NHS's benign position, compared with - say - the car industry, retail, or financial services.
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News
GPs warn against localising quality framework
GPs have claimed allowing primary care trusts to draw up their own indicators under the quality and outcomes framework would result in a postcode lottery for patients and damage work on health inequalities.
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Private care home operator offers free flu jabs
A private care home operator is offering free flu vaccinations to those who visit its home but do not qualify for a jab on the NHS.