All Service redesign articles – Page 182
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Warks scales down charges
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire trust has drawn back from wholesale changes to hospitals - but is likely to centralise more services at the new University Hospital in Coventry, built by private finance initiative.
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MP hits out over Hartlepool service changes
The MP who resigned from his government health brief amid a reconfiguration row has spoken of his 'disappointment' over the latest ruling.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sea change in health scrutiny
As the future of health scrutiny grows increasingly complex, healthcare professionals and local government must ride the wave and forge new relationships, reports Sasha Strong
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Warner rebuffs diversity slur on SHA chairs
Health minister Lord Warner has denied that the appointment of eight male chairs and only one woman to the new strategic health authorities is unrepresentative.
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Lord Hunt: NHS too centred on cost to innovate
Commissioners are failing to embrace advances in medical science, health minister Lord Hunt has warned.
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Information Centre prepares to expand role
The role of the Information Centre for health and social care in the NHS is set to be stepped up, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has revealed.
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Census reveals duplicate jobs
Thousands of NHS workers have been inaccurately recorded as having two jobs, the latest workforce census has revealed.
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Pressure group celebrates MTAS legal ruling
Pressure group Remedy UK is claiming a 'mild victory' following a judicial review into the medical training and application system.
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Merger plans for six trusts as Welsh NHS feels cash squeeze
Six acute trusts across Wales are facing mergers after the Welsh Assembly launched a consultation on reconfiguration.
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Day case rates
Marc Farr says day-case rates over the last three years have shown little sign of improvement
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Sophia Christie on why tenders need loving care
Community foundation trusts reproduce the organisations we disbanded five years ago
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Care UK chief urges swift ISTC take-up
Chief executive Mike Parish sounds a cautionary note that government must move quickly to ensure a local ownership care system takes route
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Maternity care: eyes on storks
Government pledges on choice in maternity care are at odds with widespread reports of midwives crumbling under the pressure of slashed budgets, writes Daloni Carlisle
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Government launches eye care commissioning toolkit
Health minister Rosie Winterton has set out the Government's vision for moving eye care services into the community.Ms Winterton also launched a new commissioning toolkit for primary care trusts to help them achieve it, part of a government review of NHS ophthalmic services.Read the review here
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DoH urges primary care trusts to embrace change quicker
Primary care trusts must be as swift to embrace change, innovation, spotting new trends and developing markets as the finance industry, according to the Department of Health.
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How to commission high quality, low cost health care
The 152 new primary care trusts are tasked with becoming strategic commissioning bodies. This means they must procure a range of provision for local people, which meets their health needs and delivers health improvements, by securing the highest value for their limited money. Stating the task is easy. Delivering it ...
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Practitioner view: Measuring outcomes in mental health and social care
Measuring outcomes is a direct way to improve the quality and accountability of services. It can help us to improve our understanding of the impact of services on people's lives. Those who use services and carers need reassurance that treatments and care provided are producing results for them as individuals, ...
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Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders
One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'
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Sophia Christie on primary care
'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'
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Carnall looks to establish the capital's long-term credentials
When Ruth Carnall took over as interim chief executive of NHS London in August 2006, she said she would manage it as though she were there for the long term.