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BlogsThey're Goodfellas at the CQC
I wonder what the NHS will make of Baroness Young’s announcement that the Care Quality Commission wants to “do a number” on failing organisations. It’s the kind of shadowy threat you’d expect from a Martin Scorsese gangster rather than the chair of a public services regulator.
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BlogsChallenging Mediocrity
How do we know what makes a good leader? If we are to make a difference, then we have to be more than “good enough”.
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CommunityLookey-likey: The sneezing man and Malcolm Tucker
Topical lookey-likey: the man spraying germy snot everywhere in the Department of Health’s swine flu prevention adverts looks like foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It and In the Loop.
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CommunityPig deal
It’s hard enough to take swine flu seriously since it sounds like an illness affecting nasty people, but endless viral emails and text messages aren’t doing much to improve its image. So far we’ve had people carted off in “hambulances”, victims breaking out in “rashers” and “farmacists” selling patients the ...
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Comment
Media Watch: the MP expenses claim swingometer
“Greedy, petty, shameless… and we haven’t had the Tories yet!” was how The Independent on Sunday heralded The Telegraph’s ongoing exclusive on MPs’ expenses.
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CommentNo time for complacency on European working time directive
NHS organisations have to be compliant with the European working time directive by 1 August and only a tiny minority can reasonably expect any exception to the rules
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NewsUnneeded surgery may be costing the NHS millions
Tens of millions of pounds are being spent on NHS procedures that offer little apparent benefit, the first comprehensive survey of patient reported outcomes is expected to reveal.
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NewsFears grow over flu pandemic stockpiles
Concerns are growing over whether primary care trusts will be able to avoid running out of flu pandemic equipment amid confusion over who should be stockpiling supplies.
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NewsCity council chief takes reins at Yorkshire SHA
Two major NHS appointments will see chief executives from local government and a primary care trust leading Yorkshire and the Humber and West Midlands strategic health authorities.
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LeaderPatient reported outcome measures raise questions of how need for operations is decided
HSJ’s revelation this week that tens of millions of pounds are being spent on treatments that arguably do not improve patients’ lives serves to focus minds.
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LeaderStrategic health authority chiefs bring a new flavour to the NHS
After many months, we once again have a full complement of strategic health authority chief executives, even if one of them has been given the honour of being made temporary flu czar (news, page 7).
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NewsNHS out of pocket as contract ends for cataract treatment centre
The first independent treatment centre to complete a five year contract will have delivered about 20 per cent less work than it was paid for, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLondon’s primary care trusts gain world class commissioning back-up
The head of a London-wide organisation has set out how it will help the region lift its world class commissioning scores.
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CommentStephen Eames on the quest for quality
At a recent meeting, a colleague likened the current welter of initiatives on quality to being “tied down like Gulliver”. It’s not that I argue with the importance of providing safe, high quality care - far from it - but I have some sympathy with the view that there is ...
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CommentYour Humble Servant on appropriate attire
It can be hard to decide how to dress for a dress-down, informal bonding session with colleagues, as ours gamely proved.
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Community
Barefaced cheek
We all know ambulance work can be tough, but last week a Surrey paramedic was particularly desperate for an after work tipple. After a Tesco worker refused to serve him a bottle of wine on the grounds that he was an emergency services employee in uniform, he stormed out of ...
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CommunityUp in smoke
It would be enough to send even the most steel willed public health director reaching for the Marlboros. East Lancashire primary care trust last week ‘fessed up to having double-counted its smoking cessation figures for much of the past year.
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NewsFormer finance director reprimanded for accounting failings
A former primary care trust finance director has been reprimanded by her professional accountancy body after her organisation had to adjust its accounts by £7.1m.
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NewsChannel Islands angry as UK ends 33-year-old health agreement
The UK’s decision to end a 33- year-old reciprocal health agreement with the Channel Islands threw Department of Health officials and ministers into a nine month row, documents obtained by HSJ reveal.
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NewsFunds dry up for anti-bullying training in the NHS
The NHS is struggling to fund anti-bullying training for staff and managers despite evidence of widespread problems, a charity is claiming.