All South West articles – Page 105
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS board leadership and the patient safety campaign
In the time it takes you to read this, one or more incidents may have harmed or even killed patients being cared for in your hospital. NHS boards should signal their commitment to addressing the problem by joining the Patient Safety First campaign
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HSJ Knowledge
Plymouth health bodies enhance telecommunication systems
Over the past few years, Plymouth Healthcare Community has been building a state of the art communications infrastructure to support the delivery of healthcare services.
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News
Hospital chief suspended for poor record
The chief executive of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust John Watkinson has been suspended.
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News
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust hires management review team
NHS South West and Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust have hired four professionals to investigate management at the trust.
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News
Former chief and board slated in £87m Bromley debt probe
A highly critical report into how a hospital trust built up more than £87m of debt has uncovered serious failings by its former chief executive and board.
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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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Comment
Maggie Rae on world class efforts
The Olympics may be behind us but the legacy of rigorous training lives on in primary care trusts across the country as they prepare for the world class commissioning competency assessment process.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS vocational training: branching out
A mental health and learning disability trust has helped one of its rehabilitation schemes become a social firm. Alison Moore reports
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HSJ KnowledgeReducing the traffic death toll
Why are the media and public not campaigning for new laws that would reduce road traffic collisions, particularly when nearly a half of all UK road deaths (40 per cent) involve young people?
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News
Hospitals slam water firms over flood response failure
NHS managers affected by last year's floods have accused their water supplier of an 'inadequate' and 'unco-ordinated' response to the emergency.
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HSJ Knowledge
Ambassadors programme boosts health sector training
In September 2007, University Hospitals Bristol foundation trust launched the ambassadors network to support the delivery of the trust's schools liaison programme.
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News
Cornwall cancer treatment centralisation plans
Your comment on our proposals to relocate upper gastrointestinal cancer surgical services to improve clinical outcomes was very perceptive in setting out the challenges we face.
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News
Disgusted by Cornwall cancer conflict
I read with disgust your comments on the planned removal of cancer services from Cornwall to Plymouth.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lessons learned from competition in the tender process
Bristol Community Health reflects on lessons learned during the tendering process for community health services
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News
Monitor steps in as trust losses soar
Monitor has exercised its intervention powers for the second time since its creation with a formal notice to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust.
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HSJ Knowledge
Under the radar: BME mental health
Language barriers and stereotyping mean the mental health needs of black and minority ethnic older people are going unseen by commissioners. Kaye McIntosh reports
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News
Cornwall's one-site cancer plans run aground
A primary care trust's aim to centralise specialised cancer services has been derailed by the council's overview and scrutiny committee, which wants a full public consultation.
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News
GPs open up to extended access target
Almost a quarter of primary care trust areas have now hit the Department of Health's target to extend GP opening hours, latest figures reveal.
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News
Regions braced for change as plans put Darzi's vision on map
The strategic health authorities have set out their stalls but is there anything new in the proposals and are they likely to make regional variations in care inevitable? Alison Moore investigates