All Service redesign articles – Page 118
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HSJ Knowledge
Getting to the bottom of NHS diabetes care
Diabetes is on the rise and is estimated to be responsible for more than one in 10 deaths in England - so why are more GPs not detecting and monitoring it, asks Emma Dent
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News
Partnership plan for top-ups
Advances in medical technology and drug treatments mean it is more important than ever that the health service and private sector work together to create a system which works in the best interests of all patients.
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News
Impressive maternity services
Your article suggested primary care trusts in East Sussex were 'slammed' for 'failing to consult on plans for a radical redesign of maternity services'. This is not the case. The independent reconfiguration panel said it was 'impressed by the thoroughness of aspects of the consultation and proposal development' in East ...
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News
Hospital trust may split into two organisations
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals trust is considering splitting into two new organisations.
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Leader
DH faces turmoil over tariff regime
Is there going to be tariff turmoil for the second time in three years?
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on a family's care crisis
On Friday morning, Mum was readmitted to hospital. She is 85 years old and vulnerable to infections, with a provisional diagnosis of leukaemia.
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News
DH intervention forces cancer rethink
A primary care trust has been forced to review its plans to centralise specialist gastrointestinal cancer services after what is believed to be an unprecedented intervention by the Department of Health.
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News
Out of hours care standards to be applied to urgent care
National standards for out of hours providers could be extended to cover some in-hours services.
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News
Gordon Brown promises free prescriptions for cancer patients
Gordon Brown promised to abolish prescription charges for cancer patients as part of a 'new settlement' focusing on fairness.In what had been described before he spoke as the speech of his life, the prime minister's announcement that he would scrap the charges for cancer patients from April was well received ...
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News
Charities support Labour on health interventionism
Charities and activists have told Labour not to shy away from tackling access to GP services and to ignore jibes about the 'nanny state'.
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HSJ Partners
Improving inpatient mental health services
The Healthcare Commission review of acute inpatient care, Pathway to Recovery, marks a milestone in the ongoing effort to achieve a step change in the quality of inpatient mental health services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Transformational leadership in a transformed NHS
To make patient care truly effective, all doctors need to develop the skills of transformational leadership, as Graham Neale explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Catching mental illness early
New primary care teams are helping to catch people early in the spectrum of mental illness. Stuart Shepherd explains
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HSJ Knowledge
HIV services: caring for older patients
As people with HIV/AIDS live longer, services must adapt to meet the needs of more patients and the first generation of HIV-positive pensioners. Emma Dent reports
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Comment
Sandy Watson on bringing young people to the NHS table
Any talk of engaging with the community and involving patients in shaping healthcare cannot ignore the needs and influence of its youngest citizens.
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News
Mental health lacks national vision
Mental health plans arising from the next stage review lack ambition and risk being 'lost' as the service focuses on other sectors, managers are warning.
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Comment
Media Watch: NHS in the headlines
Headlines have been lent an oddly cinematic quality this week. In the horror category, Gordon Brown faced the 'revenge of the Blair Babes', according to The People. The Observer moved into gangster territory, imploring the prime minister to 'call off your mafioso aides'.
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News
Lib Dems unveil plan to slash NHS managers' pay
Senior health managers should be forced to reapply for jobs and take pay cuts as part of a public sector cost-cutting drive, the Liberal Democrats proposed at their annual conference in Bournemouth this week.
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Comment
Michael White on the Liberal Democrats' conference
Apart from Norman Lamb's platform speech and a short midweek debate on the urgent needs of mental health, the health service wasn't very prominent on the Liberal Democrats' conference agenda in Bournemouth.
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News
Stroke services improving - Royal College of Physicians
Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown. The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds.