All Primary care articles – Page 228
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Low NHS waiting times masking wide variation in performance
The NHS has achieved historically low hospital waiting times but faces a battle to ensure the 18 week target is hit in every area by December.
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NHS alcohol misuse services are inadequate - National Audit Office
The NHS is not doing enough to stem effects of alcohol on health, the National Audit Office has warned.
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DH appoints autism adviser
Elaine Hill has been appointed as the specialist adviser for autism at the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health information: tackling the prostate cancer taboo
A play by Benjamin Zephaniah has helped tackle the stigma of prostate cancer. Suresh Rambaran explains how it came about
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NHS absence from individual budget trials was 'missed opportunity'
The failure to involve the NHS in individual budget pilots was a 'missed opportunity' and deeply regretted by the social services staff who took part.
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Alan Johnson orders trusts: cut waits for speech therapy
NHS organisations must work with allied health professionals to bring down 'unacceptable' waiting times for services such as speech therapy, health secretary Alan Johnson has told them.
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Nigel Edwards on NHS exceptional case panels
Over the summer no media report on the state of the NHS was complete without mention of the postcode lottery in treatments, either through challenges to primary care trust exceptional case panels or the perceived ethics of the current rules on top-ups.
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Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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New formula spells end for minimum practice income guarantee
GPs and NHS Employers have agreed a formula that could phase out the minimum practice income guarantee. The guarantee has been strongly criticised, as it means GP practices suffer no financial penalty if patients choose to go elsewhere.
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Hold-up: Treasury eyes NHS surplus
The Treasury is in talks with the Department of Health over the NHS's £1.7bn surplus and when the service will be able to spend it.
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Why a health service redesign hit the rocks
With controversial reconfiguration plans in Sussex appearing shelf-bound, Alison Moore looks at the lessons for other trusts and asks whether changes on that scale are just too unwieldy to succeed
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Michael White on keeping patients out of hospital
It is not often you read of a new controversy in the Sunday papers and stumble on what looks like the answer in Hansard before bedtime. It happened this week. Here goes.
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient and public involvement leads to satisfaction
The draft NHS constitution has stirred only apathy in many quarters.
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Lisa Rodrigues on the financial crisis and the NHS
We live in strange and worrying times. As I write, another building society has been nationalised.
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HSJ Knowledge
Advice for PCTs on managing provider arms
Managing PCT provider arms is not a straightforward matter, as Jeremy Roper explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Focusing on health inequalities
Bristol primary care trust is using an enhanced equality impact assessment to reduce health inequalities by transforming the way it allocates funds
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NHS Alliance rallying cry for social enterprise
The NHS Alliance has begun its annual conference in Bournemouth with a call to arms for the social enterprise movement.
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West Sussex puts hospital plan on ice after backlash
A hospital reconfiguration plan has been suspended two years after controversial plans were first floated.
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Long Term Conditions Alliance faces merger
Members of the Long Term Conditions Alliance were this week set to agree to merge with a new patient representation body.
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Annual health check case study: Salford
Salford is the only primary care trust to achieve double excellent scores, having improved its quality rating from good last year.