All articles by Rebecca Evans – Page 9
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News
IT programme saved £208m
The national programme for IT saved the NHS £208m in 2006-07, a report on the benefits of the programme is expected to say.
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Comment
Lousy singer, great lobbyist - Morgan is a tough act to follow
As the tributes pour in for Gill Morgan following the announcement that she is to leave the NHS Confederation, it is clear not only how well liked and respected she is, but also how far she has taken the organisation in six years.
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Basic data 'should be free'
The chief executive of the Information Centre has promised to 'put right' the perception that Dr Foster has Intelligence unfair access to NHS data.
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'Pay for performance' could be next, says NHS medical director
The NHS medical director has warned managers of the national clinical audit programme that they 'must deliver' or they could lose their contract.
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Comment
Mental health funding rows must not hinder urgent care
Being sectioned under the Mental Health Act is traumatic, but a section being delayed because of a row over funding is even more distressing.
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Comment
Patients could hold answer to gender work rate differences
For the increasing number of female consultants, research this week that concludes they are less productive than their male counterparts is likely to make them bristle.
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Management costs: trusts can only benefit from comparison
Figures published by the Department of Health reveal huge variations in NHS trusts' management costs, from 0.4 per cent of their income up to 15 per cent.
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Strong accountability offers a chance to focus on the neediest
How best to reduce health inequalities? Our news analysis this week shows what has long been suspected: that different areas not only have starkly different premature death rates, but that in some cases primary care trusts with the greatest need spend the least on tackling these early killers.
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Lib Dem leader outlines plans for the health service
The new leader of the Liberal Democrats has outlined his party's proposals for all patients to be given a set of 'entitlements' to treatment, based on their condition.
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Comment
Clegg throws down mental health gauntlet
Mental health is not an issue that politicians generally choose to make a splash on. But newly elected Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg had more to say about mental health in his inaugural speech on public policy than he did about the rest of the NHS.
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Comment
Ministers should heed warnings over accountability
Wrangling over the precise remit of the forthcoming Care Quality Commission continues apace.
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Brown talks to HSJ about his preventive healthcare vision
Foundation trusts are to provide primary care services, recruit more members and take over failing trusts under the prime minister’s vision for the future of the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Most managers doubt 21st century NHS will stay free
Only one fifth of health service managers believe the NHS will be free at the point of demand in 60 years.
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Brown calls for 'deeper and wider' NHS reform
Gordon Brown has promised greater personal and preventive healthcare as part of his vision for the NHS.In his first major speech on health since becoming prime minister, Mr Brown told an audience of health professionals in London that if the NHS is to meet the needs of the 21st century, ...
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NHS leaders honoured for services to healthcare
Robert Naylor, chief executive of University College London Hospitals foundation trust, has been awarded a knighthood in recognition of his services to healthcare.He was among tens of healthcare professionals to be honoured in the Queen's New Year's Honours List.
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Health inequalities focus for new national strategy
Reducing health inequalities, cutting healthcare-acquired infections and planning for emergencies will be among the priorities for the health service in 2008.
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Race law warning from DoH
The NHS's most senior equality official has warned that the Department of Health could stop working with organisations that do not fulfil their obligations under race equality legislation.
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Comment
Media Watch: cancer strategy
The furore over party funding squeezed most health coverage out last week, but it made a return to the headlines as the government briefed newspapers on its new cancer strategy.
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News
Climate change experts to visit trusts
A team of climate change experts is to tour the country to galvanise trusts to take action on sustainable development in the health service.
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Comment
Media Watch: Gordon Brown under fire
Gordon Brown has been coming under fire this week for his behaviour both past and present. The Sun blamed the prime minister for the decision, announced by health secretary Alan Johnson, to scrap six contracts for independent sector treatment centres. The £100m compensation to the dropped companies ‘could have built ...