All South West articles – Page 107
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Inquiry shows gap in paediatric training
Children and young people with life-threatening illness are not being treated appropriately because professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.
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Maggie Rae on the NHS's 60th anniversary
Have you started on your plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS? Don't leave it to the great and good to celebrate - you are the great and the good.
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Barbara Young to chair Care Quality Commission
The proposed chair of the new super-regulator has been welcomed as an 'inspirational' leader. Baroness Barbara Young, currently the Environment Agency chief executive, has been named as the Department of Health's preferred candidate to chair the shadow Care Quality Commission.
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Concern at slow response to review of brutal murder
The chair of an inquiry into the brutal murder of a man with learning disabilities has said she is 'hugely disappointed' by the NHS's failure to address the problems it identified.
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Making workforce development work
Problems with workforce planning in the NHS can be overcome, as one initiative has shown. Kevin Elliston explains
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Managers should lend a listening ear to patients
Patients need to be heard in the boardroom, not complaining in the media. But good patient and public involvement doesn't just happen - it needs a healthy investment of time, money and training
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Putting life into NHS teaching
Adopting new approaches to training in the NHS could benefit staff and patients, argues Nick Napper
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Morgan leaves Confed for Wales
Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.
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What a carve-up: the future of SHAs
After 18 months, the role of reconfigured strategic health authorities still does not seem clearly defined. So what does that mean for the future, asks Helen Mooney
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Who cares for the carers?
People caring for a relative are a vital part of the health and social care system - but many feel isolated. A national strategy aims to help by making GPs and community services more carer friendly. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Tolerance of NHS mistakes needs major overhaul
In other industries mistakes are considered unacceptable, yet in the NHS minor errors cause thousands of extra days in hospital
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Breakdown of cross-border agreements is costing English trusts millions
Diverging health policies in England and Wales are causing English hospitals to lose millions of pounds.
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Value for many - improving learning difficulties services
A consultation on learning difficulties services seeks to help most service users to live in the community, while increasing monitoring and support. Mark Gould reports
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Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then
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Maggie Rae on action for equality
Christmas came early for me insofar as all the objectives I wanted to deliver were prioritised in the NHS operating framework. I was delighted to see health inequalities in there.
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Cancer education in the NHS workforce
It is a common misconception that people with cancer are exclusively cared for in specialist oncology settings. They are cared for throughout all large teaching hospitals, so appropriate cancer education and training should be accessible to all staff who work with them, argue Katharine Gale and Deirdre McGuigan
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Mental health: no-one wins in homicide blame game
Often inspired by media hysteria, inquiries into homicides by mentally ill people cost the NHS millions each year and produce little real change, says Christine Vize
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In-house turnaround team to cut NHS's £36m consultants' bill
The Department of Health is preparing to launch its own team of troubleshooters to assist NHS organisations facing clinical or financial problems.
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Managers in Partnership: state of the union
Two years after its birth, the association representing NHS managers has made admirable strides but it still has a long way to go as it tries to boost their poor public image. By Helen Mooney
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Systems blamed as North Bristol trust workers overpaid
A hospital trust that overpaid staff by £160,000 has blamed teething problems with the new NHS-wide electronic staff record system.