Sentences with phrase «strategic health authorities»

In R (Green) v South West Strategic Health Authority [2008] EWHC 2576 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 21 (Nov) the High Court considered whether a NHS body had lawfully refused to fund the nursing home care required by a woman with Alzheimer's disease.

Nicholson was chief executive of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority at the time of the 1,200 unnecessary deaths in Mid-Staffordshire, prompting repeated calls for him to resign.

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority [2009] EWCA Civ 145, [2009] All ER (D) 24 (Mar) is likely to be welcomed by local authorities because it should lead to fewer cases in which serious accident victims have to turn to local authorities for their accommodation and care.

Work with Strategic Health Authorities to identify best practice around provision for fathers staying overnight in maternity units, and better information about what's available

Nicholson was chief executive of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority at the time of the 1,200 unnecessary deaths in Mid-Staffordshire — a position campaigners repeatedly mention when calling for him to quit.

The East of England Strategic Health Authority signed off Peterborough's business plan.

The decision in South West Strategic Health Authority v Bay Island Voyages clarifies the liability of sea carriers & gives certainty to practitioners, says Angela Williams

The DoH plans to publish provisional results on Wednesday June 6, but the Guardian managed to extrapolate the figures from information provided by strategic health authorities.

In south west England pro-plain packaging billboards have appeared which are funded by the local Primary Care Trust, by way of the NHS Strategic Health Authority, the Department of Health and ultimately, you - the taxpayer.

Many NHS Trusts have worked hard with strong leadership and support from Strategic Health Authorities they made great strides, and saved lives by preventing avoidable healthcare infections.

But it will struggle to implement this, the NAO added, because the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities which are responsible for driving efficiency are set to be scrapped by 2013 - to be replaced by local consortia of GPs.

NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp then announced that financial and management teams would be sent in to help strategic health authorities (SHA), hospital trusts and primary care trusts who were struggling to balance their books.

Since 2003 local strategic health authorities (SHA) have had the legal power to compel water companies to enrich tap water with fluoride.

By enabling patients to choose their general practitoners and then routing the vast majority of NHS funds through their hands, we will finally be able to reduce bureaucracy by scrapping Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts.

In 2002, the existing regional health authorities were renamed and merged to form 28 new strategic health authorities.

GPs will be given more power while strategic health authorities and primary care trusts (PCTs) will be phased out.

During the reorganisation, all 151 primary care trusts - which provided services such as hospitals, dentists and opticians - and the 10 regional strategic health authorities were abolished.

South West Strategic Health Authority served a defence and a Pt 20 claim against the boat company, arguing that the Athens Convention applied to the trip.

Some of these points were discussed in Evans v Birmingham and Black Country Strategic Health Authority (2007) EWCA Civ 1300, [2007] All ER (D) 88 (Dec).

Our clients include insurers, large corporates, and public sector bodies such as Strategic Health Authorities and educational institutions.

This required strategic health authorities in consultation with PCTs and where appropriate local authorities, to review their eligibility criteria and satisfy themselves that these were in accordance with Grogan and the guidance.

«But the Department is working with strategic health authorities and trade unions to do all we can to maximise employment opportunities for newly qualified nurses.»

They are located in the north - west, north - east, West Midlands, London and east of England strategic health authorities.

South West Strategic Health Authority v Bay Island Voyages [2015] EWCA Civ 708 concerned a claim by Dr Kathleen Feest who was injured on a boat trip as part of a team - building exercise.

In Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority [2009] EWCA Civ 145, [2009] All ER (D) 24 (Mar) the Court of Appeal (CA) considered the issue as to whether a claimant's care and accommodation costs should be borne by the tortfeasor or the local authority that was charged with the statutory duty of making arrangements for providing care and accommodation to the claimant.

A spokesman said: «All Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) have set out plans for implementing Maternity Matters to provide high - quality, safe maternity care for women and their babies.»

The Strategic Health Authority was «far too remote from the patients it was there to serve, and it failed to be sufficiently sensitive to signs that patients might be at risk.»

She notes a further 2,800 avoidable patient deaths have been registered at 14 other NHS trusts and calls on Nicholson to quit given his previous role as chief executive of West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.

Strategic Health Authorities will ensure PCT plans are robust in this respect and must be satisfied that those plans demonstrate, collectively, reduced variation in performance.

Choose the GPs and Hospitals you prefer, unconstrained by the bureaucracies of the PCTs and Strategic Health Authorities.

Attendees at these events include MPs and Peers, healthcare professionals, user representatives, people with diabetes, Primary Care Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and representatives of voluntary organisations.

Stripping out primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities is as top down as it comes.

David Nicholson knew what was going on at Mid-Staffs while he was head of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority and, from 2007, as the chief executive of the NHS.»

The plans could represent the biggest shakeup of the NHS in a generation, with a whole tier of the NHS decapitated: 10 strategic health authorities would be abolished by 2012 and the 150 primary care trusts scrapped by 2013; up to 30,000 managers face being cut or redeployed.

Accountability and control will move out of the obscure network of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities, and into the hands of recognisable, visible members of the community: that is, local GPs, working with local nurses and hospital consultants.

Meanwhile, the Strategic Health Authorities are hardly local, as they operate on a regional basis.

There are two main levels of the NHS which ministers regularly describe as «local» and are concerned with commissioning services: Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs).

The Department of Health would see its size reduced by a spectacular 50 per cent, and Strategic Health Authorities would be abolished.

Responsibility for delivery is shared with the local NHS and with the chief executives of the ten strategic health authorities.

The strategic health authority was remote from patients and insensitive to signs patients were at risk.

In February 2011 the government explained to PCTs and Strategic Health Authorities that CCGs would not take on contractual responsibility for walk - in centres.

Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts were abolished on 31 March 2013 as part of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Initially, the government wanted to scrap primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, set up the NHS commissioning board, public health England and the new monitor at the national level, and GP commissioning consortia and health and wellbeing boards at the local level.

He'd have seen the Strategic Health Authority re-cast; hospitals merge into common trusts, Primary Care Groups redrawn as Primary Care Trusts and then redrawn again as bigger PCTs; Mental Health Trusts amalgamate (Oxfordshire's was paired off with Bucks»), and Ambulance Trusts fold into each other.

The four conjoined appeals (Thompstone v Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust; Corbett v South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority; RH v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust; DeHass v South West London Strategic Health Authority) confirmed that courts have the power to apply a rate higher than the Retail Prices Index (RPI) when inflation - proofing periodical payments for future care costs.

In the biggest shake - up of the NHS since its inception, 151 primary care trusts (PCTs) and 10 strategic health authorities will go and 24,500 manager posts will be lost.

Finally, the appellant argued that she could recover damages for the Trust's breach of contract comprising its breach of confidence and trust by inducing her to sign the agreement by misleading her into a belief that the agreement had all necessary approvals from the Department of Health, the auditors and the Strategic Health Authority.

Conscious of the need to ensure the offer was approved, a national officer of the chief executive's union asked the solicitor acting for the Trust about this and was told that «all the ducks are lined up» and that the Strategic Health Authority had agreed the settlement.

Pressure to be seen to do something did not abate and the Strategic Health Authority «encouraged» the Trust to review its leadership.