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Janet Askham on the need to improve patient feedback
'If we continue to ask patients to give up their time to provide valuable feedback on their doctor's performance, surely we owe it to them at least to ask the right questions?'
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Testing a new approach to patient-centred care
Millions of people in the UK are living with long-term conditions such as asthma or diabetes. However, the extent to which they are able to lead full and active lives depends, in part, on how able they are to manage their own healthcare, for example by their medication doses or ...
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Improving prescribing in mental health: the patient perspective
The Healthcare Commission's State of Healthcare 2006report, published on 1 November, highlights a number of problems with mental health prescribing which frequently deviates from best practice and national guidance with potentially devastating effects for patients.
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Legal briefing: organising key commissioning relationships
Commissioning has been part and parcel of the NHS for a number of years. What has changed recently is the view that a reinvigorated and more sophisticated commissioning process, with the implementation of practice-based commissioning, will improve services and ensure value for money.
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Reducing health inequalities for South Asian population
Knowledge that the risk of dying prematurely from coronary heart disease is 50 per cent higher in the South Asian community - immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - than in the indigenous population has been available for more than half a century.
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Stephen Thornton on getting engaged, committing to a partner, raising offspring
'One of the common misconceptions around patient safety work is that it is all common sense. But if it were that simple then why don't all our hospitals have a zero per cent adverse event rate?'
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Managing patients with complex chronic conditions
Derek Feeley is director of healthcare policy and strategy at the Scottish Executive's Health Department. He has just spent a year in the United States on a Harkness/Health Foundation fellowship, looking at chronic-disease management.
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Annual healthcheck overhauled
The Healthcare Commission has revised the criteria that will be used to assess NHS trusts' performance against the core standards in 2006-07.It takes into account new targets, revised policy as well as attempting to reduce repetition and increase clarity.See the revised criteria here
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Polonium-210 guidance issued
The Health Protection Agency and NHS Direct have issued information about the radioactive material polonium-210 in the wake of the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.It offers advice to anyone who thinks they may have been exposed to the substance.Read the HPA's guidance ...
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Mike Cooke on mental health
We have made measurable progress in mental health services over the past six years but there is still too much variation in services and in investment, primarily in services not covered by a national service framework.
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Department of Health launches GP satisfaction survey
A survey asking 5 million patients to rate their satisfaction with their GP is launched today.The GP patient experience survey, Your Doctor, Your Experience, Your Say, is part of the improved access scheme directed enhanced service. The results will be used to reward GPs ...
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Healthy food vouchers launched
Public health minister Caroline Flint has launched a new scheme to ensure low-income mothers and pregnant women can provide their families with milk, fresh fruit and vegetables.Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme. It will give qualifying people weekly vouchers that they can exchange at 20,000 participating retailers.Click ...
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National learning disabilities audit updated
The Healthcare Commission has published an update on its forthcoming audit of services for people with learning disabilities.It outlines which types of services will be reviewed, the pilot schemes now under way to test the methodology and plans for the national roll out.The update can be found ...
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Treasury: more civil service cuts on way
The Treasury has announced further cuts in civil servants as par of the Gershon efficiency programme.It said that the government was two thirds of the way to the target to save £21.5bn by 2008. A total of 55,000 civil service posts have been cut in the last two years.
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Joint report on mental health NSF
The Department of Health and Department of Education and Skills has published a report on implementing the mental health standard of the national service framework on children, young people and maternity services. It says that the target to introduce a child and adolescent mental health ...
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CHAMPS publish healthier hospitals guide
Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships public health team has published a guide to healthier hospitals, collating the evidence on health promotion for secondary care settings.More information on CHAMPS and copies of the guide can be accessed via www.champs-for-health.net
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New palliative care guide launched
The National Council for Palliative Care has launched a guide for nurses, general practitioners and care home workers on managing the last days of life. It covers a range of good practice, legal and emotional issuesTo download a copy of the report go to ...
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Widespread uptake of PBC incentives
Eight-one per cent of practices had taken advantage of incentive payments to implement practice-based commissioning by the end of September, according to new figures from the Department of Health. This is up from 74 per cent in August.Eighty-two per cent of PCTs have put in place arrangements to support PBC, ...
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How Middle England turned into a nation of reconfiguration rebels
Demonstrations against changes to hospital services have brought thousands on to the streets. Tash Shifrin spoke to some of the campaigners about their aims