All South West articles – Page 106
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Workforce planning - six steps for success
Using national guidance to plan its whole workforce has been a trust-wide ambition for a South West PCT. Helen Mooney reports on how the work has paid off
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Service planning: shock of the new
Sherford is a new town being built near Plymouth and plans for its health services promise to test support for new models - just don't mention polyclinics. Lynn Eaton takes a look
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Health inequalities in primary care
Benchmarking can help PCTs tackle deprivation and achieve performance and funding practices that compare with the best, says Nigel Crew
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Darzi review: South West to match Europe's best
NHS South West is planning to match the lowest rates in Europe for smoking, cancer, heart disease and stroke deaths and healthcare associated infections.
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Darzi review: NHS South Central to tackle health inequalities
NHS South Central has pledged to work to reduce massive variations in life expectancy and access to services.
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Latest regional Darzi report aims to boost life expectancy
NHS South West has unveiled ambitious plans to match the best life expectancy rates in Europe in its regional Darzi vision, published today.