All Service redesign articles – Page 183
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Comment
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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Comment
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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Comment
Day case rates
Marc Farr says day-case rates over the last three years have shown little sign of improvement
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News
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nottingham PCT chief starts Pfizer secondment-
Nottingham City primary care trust chief executive Samantha Milbank has joined Pfizer Health Solutions on secondment as head of business development.
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Workforce chief to tackle past failures
Many of the NHS's biggest personnel problems should have been tackled years ago, the Department of Health head of workforce has admitted.
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Thelma Holland, South West: From nurse to chief exec - via South India
In many ways, the role given to Thelma Holland is the most interim of all the interim posts.
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Hurt as chiefs fail to make the grade
NHS Employers has moved to defend the selection process for primary care trust chief executives after rumours of upset circulated in the service last week.
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How the push for local choice in childbirth is foundering
Despite national pledges to provide women with a range of local options, choice in maternity services has largely failed to materialise. Alison Moore investigates how local organisations? decisions to close units are flying in the face of national policy
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Sophia Christie on the power of targets
'The concern is shifting from absolute targets to the rather more difficult to track agenda of respect and values'
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Sophia Christie on telling our story
'Formal public meetings only ever engage the sort of people who like attending formal public meetings'