All Primary care articles – Page 215
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NHS surplus will bolster restricted spending
The NHS finished last financial year with a surplus equivalent to £2.2bn, spending watchdogs have said.
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Nicola Sturgeon vows to ensure a place for public on NHS boards
Scotland's health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to press ahead with direct elections to NHS boards, despite strong opposition from the health service.
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Welsh NHS seeks expert advice for redesign
An expert group has been convened to advise the Welsh Assembly government on health policy.
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How will you lead the NHS spending revolution?
Last week's operating framework presented managers with a 'huge leadership challenge' - juggling savings with productivity. But what problems might spending cuts put in their way, asks Sally Gainsbury
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HSJ KnowledgeSexual health commissioning: making sense of contraceptive use
Sexual health is firmly on the national to-do list. NHS organisations are implementing the 2001 Sexual Health and HIV strategy.
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HSJ Knowledge
Put children at centre of services
A great deal of effort is being poured into strategic partnerships for children's and young people's health. Seamless communication between countless organisations will be critical
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ's review of 2008: diamonds, debt and Darzi
The NHS’s diamond anniversary year began with Gordon Brown’s relaunch and ended with the health service paying the price for the banking sector’s profligacy. Richard Vize looks back over an eventful 12 months
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Foundation trust transition reaches halfway mark
The transition of acute and mental health trusts to foundation status passed the halfway mark this week.
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Patricia Hewitt warns of 'difficult decisions' for PCTs
The NHS faces 'difficult decisions' in coming years as it adjusts to smaller - and possibly negative - funding growth, former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has warned.
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NHS integrated care pilots to be test bed for 'risky' ideas
Integrated care pilots will be given the chance to shape Department of Health policy up to and including tariff reform, the primary care czar has revealed.Speaking as the DH revealed the 36 organisations shortlisted for the scheme, national clinical director for primary care David Colin-Thomé said the organisations making the ...
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Comment
Maggie Rae on the role of GPs
Yes, they have won again. The GPs have excelled in our local area survey. Each year, like the rest of the country, we participate in what is known as the place survey.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alcohol dependency: glad tidings for safer drinking
A social care organisation is identifying and engaging dependent drinkers at three hospitals to help them turn their lives around
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Unite calls for more school nurses to fight child obesity
Trade union Unite is calling for the government to double the number of school nurses in the light of child obesity figures.
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NHS surplus robbery risks a return to financial instability
This week the NHS was told part of the price it will have to pay for the collapse of the economy, as it bid a fond farewell to £1bn of its £1.8bn surplus.
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HSJ Knowledge
Make tough patient choices a bit easier
Offering patients true choice in healthcare means giving them the right information at the right time and providing them with the skills and support to make informed decisions
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Sophia Christie on becoming a world class commissioner
Every primary care trust is participating in the first stage of the world class commissioning assurance process. World class commissioning is not the little brother of foundation trust development, or even Big Brother, although it can seem like that.
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NHS operating framework: winners and losers
PCTs whose funding targets have increased most and least under the new formula
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What the operating framework means for PCTs, providers and SHAs
PCTsContracts with PCT provider services by AprilPreparing for legal right to choiceUpgrading and increasing GP premisesReductions in mixed-sex accommodation"Pricing framework" for community servicesProvidersNew MRSA minimum standardPayments linked to qualityMeeting safeguarding children duties"Least restrictive environment possible" for mental healthcareSHAsProducing talent and leadership plansEnsuring providers use funds to improve trainingWorkforce plans for ...
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DH urges work on NHS informatics
NHS commissioners have been told to step up work on informatics as part of a renewed drive to boost information use in service redesign.
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PCTs get green light for CQUIN
Primary care trusts have the green light to link payment to local quality improvement goals with the unveiling of the methodology for the commissioning for quality and innovation framework (CQUIN).