All articles by Tash Shifrin – Page 5
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House calls
Come the election, health campaigners will be aiming to take their causes to the top - by standing for seats at Westminster.
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HAs left in dark as DoH neglects merger criteria
Health authorities struggling to adapt as primary care trusts take over their functions are working in the dark, in the absence of Department of Health guidance on criteria for mergers.
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CHC concessions signify first deviation from NHS plan
The government has been forced to make substantial concessions over patient involvement and representation in the first significant departure from the NHS plan.
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Borderline case
The long-awaited Welsh answer to England's NHS plan calls for a complete reorganisation - beginning with the abolition of health authorities. Tash Shifrin reports
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Wales to scrap HAs as Assembly gears up for control over health
Health authorities are to be swept away in Wales in a controversial measure that overshadowed the launch of the Welsh NHS plan last week and saw Unison predicting 400 job losses within two years.
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New powers are a 'symptom of paranoia', says exNHS deputy
A former deputy chief executive of the NHS has condemned sweeping new powers for the health secretary to remove and replace top health service managers as 'wholly unacceptable'.
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After the gold rush
The deal is sealed; the new hospital will be built with private money. Robert Naylor, now in the hotseat, tells Tash Shifrin what's next at UCLH
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New inquiry to probe 'Labour PCT cronies'
The commissioner for public appointments is to investigate primary care trust board appointments, following renewed allegations that Labour is filling boards with its cronies.
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CHCs' successor bodies 'set to cost five times as much to run'
The successor bodies to community health councils - to be abolished in the Health and Social Care Bill - will cost nearly five times as much to run, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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Divergent care funding leaves England lagging
MPs have challenged health secretary Alan Milburn over the government's refusal to fund free personal care for nursing home residents in England, leaving them worse off than their counterparts in Scotland.
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CHCs struggling to cope in countdown to abolition
Patients may be left in the lurch as complaints services begin to fall apart ahead of the planned formal abolition of community health councils in 2002.
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'Patient advocate'plans aimed at taking sting from CHCs' abolition
The government has conceded ground on the need for independent advocates to support patients' complaints against the NHS, following the decision to abolish community health councils.
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CHI reviews will grade trusts on governance
The Commission for Health Improvement has denied that it is under pressure to adapt its reviews to the 'traffic-light' performance monitoring system.
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Housing services 'may be run by care trusts'
Housing services could be run by the NHS under new powers to be allocated to care trusts, it emerged last week.
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NICE 'must listen to patients' on schizophrenia guidelines
Campaigners have challenged the National Institute for Clinical Excellence not to ignore the views of people with mental health problems in its forthcoming schizophrenia treatment guidelines and assessment of antipsychotic drugs.
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Trust board rejects PFI merger proposal
A controversial private finance initiative scheme has hit renewed trouble, with the board of one of the trusts involved rejecting a crucial merger plan.
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A problem shared
It's pooled budgets with a difference in one part of east London, as the NHS helps social services withstand swingeing cuts in service provision. Tash Shifrin reports
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Crowd puller
It is not just social services that is strengthening its partnership with the NHS - there's education, housing, even 'cultural services'. Tash Shifrin follows the joined-up dots
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NHS money eases Hackney cash woe
The NHS has bailed out crisisstricken Hackney council in East London, where a total spending freeze left elderly people 'stuck' in hospital without social services care packages.
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Water jump
Ann Lloyd used to be a hydrologist, but the new director of the NHS in Wales has long had the health service flowing through her veins. Tash Shifrin reports