All Primary care articles – Page 290

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Researchers have found that the 29 primary care trusts in surplus in 2004-05 were mainly in inner-city areas'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Another week and another revelation about the Department of Health's troubled IT programme, this time from a very unlikely source.

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is the second worst-performing government department, The Times told its readers at the weekend. It reported that the review by business leaders and public sector chiefs commissioned by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell was damning about the DoH's 'lack of direction'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Given the arrival of a new prime minister and health secretary, most papers offered their advice to Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'A Sunday Times.article quoted a survey commissioned by health insurer BUPA, which found 55 per cent of senior doctors pay for medical insurance'

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The Daily Express claimed nurses were 'close to working to rule', saying: 'The move comes after nurses in England were denied the full 2.5 per cent pay rise given to colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for doing exactly the same work''

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    News emerged over the weekend that the 'inflexible' hours of GP surgeries were costing the economy an estimated £1bn a year.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'As junior doctors struggle to find work The Sunday Times claimed that the Department of Health survey on GP workload would show that family doctors were earning more and working less'

  • News

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    So we're at last going to see an end to junk food advertising aimed at children. And with the announcement came the expected outcry from companies that make their money selling bad food to kids, as well as health professionals who say the new rules will not go far enough.

  • News

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of junior doctors are to be shipped abroad, The Daily Telegraph said this week as it claimed 'up to 10,000 young doctors unable to find NHS jobs could be offered voluntary work overseas'.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.

  • Comment

    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'

  • News

    PCTs oppose Manchester maternity shake-up

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a shake-up of children's and maternity services in Manchester are under fire because one corner of the city could be left without inpatient services.

  • News

    PCTs want new look at politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The relationship between the NHS and politicians needs to be 'redefined', according to an NHS Confederation poll of primary care trust managers.

  • News

    Target-chasing managers suffer 'pathological' levels of stress

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Too many new policies, a lack of coherent strategy and invasive performance management are creating 'pathological' levels of stress among NHS middle managers, an NHS Confederation report has warned.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Patient safety: making the most of an incident

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Reporting of patient safety incidents in Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire primary care trusts has been relatively low. An incident learning group, formed in 2004, brings together clinicians and managers to review incident reports, formal complaints and patient advice and liaison services data. Discussion enables common themes and areas of ...

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: the new SHA

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: Tory policy

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executive

  • Comment

    Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'