All articles by Sally E Gainsbury – Page 7
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Trust financial forecasts prove wide of mark
Scores of NHS organisations reported end-of-year financial surpluses that were at least 25 per cent wide of their initial forecasts.
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Auditors query PCT attempts to reduce last year's surplus
Auditors are querying NHS organisations' attempts to minimise the surpluses they have reported in their 2007-08 accounts.Analysis by HSJ suggests new accountancy policies and provisions allowed NHS organisations to deflate their surpluses by up to £1.3bn.
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Governors want more contact with the board
A review by foundation trust regulator Monitor reveals the trusts have some way to go before they are fully accountable organisations.
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Commercial directorate's future in the air
The future of the Department of Health's commercial directorate is in doubt following the resignation of its director general Channing Wheeler.
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Councils could lose social care funds to DWP
Local councils could be stripped of their control over the 7bn adult social care budget under proposals being explored for the forthcoming social care green paper.
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Neglect of records departments puts patient safety at risk
HSJ's investigation into missing patient records has prompted calls for enforceable standards on their availability.
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Centralisation gains fresh research support
Top health economists have given validity to Department of Health policies on centralisation of specialist services and reducing MRSA rates.
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Suppliers could challenge PCTs under European rules
An EU directive due to be implemented in the UK next year could leave primary care trust contracts open to challenge through the courts.
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Missing: the notes of more than a million outpatients
Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients are seen each year without the clinician having their medical records, an HSJ investigation has found.
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Brown rethinks social care policy
Prime minister Gordon Brown has suggested an insurance model may not be a reliable way to fund future social care provision.
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Darzi review: Clinicians to be consulted on service redesign
The mantra for the reconfiguration of specialist care services is 'centralised where necessary, localised where possible'. Clinicians will play a lead role in determining what is possible under the proposals.
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Darzi tells PCTs to involve public at each stage of process
Primary care trusts will be expected to take the lead in developing proposals for local service redesign and ensuring patient and public involvement at all stages under Lord Darzi's proposals.
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SHAs to oversee delivery of Darzi reforms
Strategic health authorities will be responsible for ensuring there is 'appropriate capability and capacity' in the NHS to deliver 'robust, evidence-based proposals', produce effective consultations and implement changes successfully, Lord Darzi's framework document says.
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Channing Wheeler's plans for market end rumours of commercial break
Reports of the demise of private sector involvement in the NHS last year were premature, as Department of Health commercial director Channing Wheeler is developing the tools to allow local managers to turn the service into a market. He talks to Sally Gainsbury
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Community services tariff opens way to private provision
The Department of Health is to develop a tariff for community services - paving the way for foundation trusts and the private sector to offer services until now provided by primary care trusts.
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Monitor plans for foundation trust failures
Foundation trust regulator Monitor is anticipating that some 47 acute and mental health trusts will not make it to foundation trust status by 2010.
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GPs paid £20m for sickness and maternity cover
GP practices in England were paid more than £20m last year for locums to cover sickness and maternity leave in their practices, HSJ has learnt.
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Frustration over advance GP appointments
Nearly three quarters of England's GP practices have left at least one in 10 patients dissatisfied because of the difficulties of making appointments more than two days in advance.
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Lib Dems scrap free social care promise
The Liberal Democrats have formally ditched their policy of free social care in England. The party has opted instead for a co-payment system based on the one set out by Sir Derek Wanless for the King's Fund.
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Surprise hygiene checks for every acute trust
The Healthcare Commission will this week begin conducting spot checks of acute trusts to ensure that they are adhering to the government's hygiene code.