All articles by Rebecca Evans – Page 8
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Leader
Publish and be damned: death rates could improve outcomes
With quality now firmly established as the health service's new mantra, its measurement is the next step.
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HSJ Knowledge
Media Watch: looking back on 60 years
On the NHS's 60th anniversary, several papers concluded the government is not doing a bad job of running the service.
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News
Managers put faith in Darzi's clinical vision
Managers believe Lord Darzi's vision for the NHS, where quality is financially rewarded and commissioning is the lynchpin of the service, is achievable within the next 10 years.
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News
Johnson calls for 'champions of quality'
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.
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News
Call for managers to improve NHS reputation
NHS leaders must engage with their workforce, strengthen their communications and hold their hands up where mistakes have been made, the director of NHS communications has told delegates at the NHS Confederation conference.
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News
Implement new technologies with care, trusts told
Every trust should establish a technology planning committee to evaluate new technologies and consider their impact on the workforce and operation of the trust, attendees at the NHS Confederation annual conference have heard.
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News
Alan Johnson tells Confed: champion quality
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference, Mr Johnson said the 'overwhelming emphasis' of health minister Lord Darzi's next stage review would be on quality.
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Comment
Media Watch: polyclinic plans
It seems even apparently mild-mannered Alan Johnson can snap. After months of doctors sniping at polyclinics, he did - via The Observer.
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News
Nick Clegg pledges GP rewards in poorer areas
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said he wants to 'slant the playing field in favour of GPs working in the most deprived areas'.
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News
Darzi review: regions promise safer and fairer services
NHS West Midlands is to focus on prevention, quality improvement and patient involvement in a bid to tackle 'an unjustifiable variability in the safety and quality of services'.
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News
West Midlands and South East Coast set out Darzi visions
NHS West Midlands has identified ‘seven big challenges’ for healthcare in the region, including an ‘unjustifiable variability’ in the safety and quality of services.
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News
Darzi review: NHS South Central to tackle health inequalities
NHS South Central has pledged to work to reduce massive variations in life expectancy and access to services.
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News
Darzi review: PCTs told reforms must save lives
Junior health minister Lord Darzi is to tell primary care trusts they can reconfigure local services only where they can prove it will save lives or improve health outcomes.
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Leader
Welsh health service set on different path
Proposals to abolish the internal market, end the purchaser provider split and fund services from the centre are setting Wales' health service on a different course from the rest of the UK.
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News
Conservatives to let GPs pick their own hours
The Conservatives have backed GPs' calls to be allowed to determine their own opening hours.
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Leader
London's red alert on Darzi will affect other regions
NHS London has highlighted concerns over the implementation of Lord Darzi's proposals for healthcare, raising its rating of the risks of insufficient leadership from amber to red.
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News
PCTs warned not to fail on choice
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has told primary care trusts to 'get their act together' to promote and deliver choice of treatment for patients.
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News
Bradshaw warns PCTs: make the right choice
As ‘free choice’ is extended to all patients, minister Ben Bradshaw tells primary care trusts they must undergo a cultural change to make it work - with consequences if they fail. Rebecca Evans met him
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Leader
Practices' minimum income is a guarantee of health inequity
Figures obtained byHSJ this week reveal huge variations in the amount GP practices are paid for doing their job, regardless of how many patients they serve or the severity of their needs.
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Leader
Freedom of information: accountability is part of the job
Hounslow primary care trust's failure to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act was so severe that the information commissioner Richard Thomas served draft High Court papers to force it to reveal information - the first time this has happened under the act.