All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 171
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Media Watch: doctor MoTs
If you'd just open the bonnet now, Dr Cameron, and we'll be through with your MoT for another five years. Before you know it, young Dr Finlay will be up for his MoT too.
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GMC offers an end to doctors' self-regulation
The General Medical Council has proposed an historic change to its make-up that would effectively end self-regulation of the medical profession.
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Doctors slam reform plans
Doctors would not be prepared to pay to be regulated by a body which did not represent their profession, the chair of the British Medical Association has said.
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DoH opts out of traffic light rating for PCTs
The Department of Health has decided not to give primary care trusts an overall traffic-light rating at the end of fitness for purpose assessments.
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RCP: don't measure medics on HES
Trust data is 'not accurate enough' to monitor the performance of individual consultants, the Royal College of Physicians has warned.
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Moving down the line to financial stability
The recent merger of two acute trusts hints at things to come as struggling organisations are forced to re-examine their options. Chris Ham surveys the new structural landscape of the health service
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Every GP practice to get kitemark rating
Every GP surgery is to be rated from next year under a kitemark scheme backed by the Department of Health.
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Money no excuse for hampering progress
As a medic and former White House adviser, Dr Mark McClellan is a natural opinion leader on health policy. He explains his vision
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Inside track: finance - what's on managers' minds this week
'What we don't need is more negative images perpetuated by those at the centre'
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A freedom framework will unite former foes
With the debate about freedom from political interference raging, strategic health authority chief executive Mark Britnell outlines his model for compromise and wonders what an NHS charter might contain
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Foundation will take on troubled Good Hope
Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.
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Get together
A new inspection regime - the comprehensive area assessment - is to be rolled out for a range of local services. HSJ and sister title LGC collected the great and the good to discuss how it will affect their work
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NAO quizzed on 'glowing' IT report
The National Audit Office has been told to continue to monitor the progress of the national programme for IT in the NHS after producing a report which surprised MPs with its positive conclusions.
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Performance: patients' reviews to go online
Patients will be given the chance to rate the service they have received from GPs and hospitals on a website set up by Department of Health.
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New guidance revolutionises NHS waste management
A recent Department of Health memorandum looks set to cause the greatest shake up of waste management within the NHS since the disappearance of the hospital incinerator.
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Healthcheck ratings: tougher test means story must be retold
The Healthcare Commission said it would be a tougher test - and so it has proved. In the first national healthcheck ratings only two dozen organisations were rated excellent for service quality, and even fewer for their use of resources. Only half of NHS organisations met all the core standards, ...
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Hewitt hints at likely loss of Monitor regulatory role
Monitor is expected to lose its current regulatory role in the government's review of healthcare regulation, although a decision on its future will not be taken until the autumn.
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Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
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How to be top
What is the secret of healthcheck ratings success? Loyal staff and paying close attention to what the public expects are key ingredients, hears Lynne Greenwood, as she talks to the two acute trusts with gold-standard ratings