PIFFO Briefings
18 months with a
broken hip
20,000 NHS Hospital job cuts forecast
40,000 errors 36 deaths due to medication errors
£50 billion: Where
does all the money go?
20% to 30% of patients
receive contraindicated care
45% of Children in Care have mental health problems
5000 die from Hospital
acquired infection a year- NHS not sure
A Matter of Life and
Death
A National Association of
Patient and Public Involvement Forums
A Safer Place for Patients:
Learning to improve patient safety
A Third or more of GP
patients can't book in advance
Accenture: NHS failure is "track record for success"
Accident statistics
unbelievable
Adverse drug reactions
account for one in 16 hospital admissions
Age at death comes into focus
Albu: Patients vulnerable to blackmail
Allergies are increasing in Britain
All London Forum?
All Party Parliamentary Group on PPI: ring fence for independence
All Party group on
Patient Public Involvement in Health
Are Forum members signing their accounts?
Are NPfIT costs real?
Public Accounts Committee challenges Secrecy
Arthritis care
inadequate
Assisted dying for the
terminally ill
Barnet PF
looks at Trust Books
Bavaria launches
patient-controlled health records
Best practice to change for Brain injury
Better pay deal for
cleaners, porters and caterers but...
Black Health Agency
responds to the Consultation Exercise
"Blundering Hospitals
kill 40,000 a year"
BMA debates
euthanasia
BMA votes to reverse policy on euthanasia
British delays keep new
drugs from cancer patients
Bullying is widespread
within the UK's National Health Service
"Bullying, knives and
psychosis"
Call for no consent Euthanasia
Call for Patients to own their
records
Camden & Islington
Mental HT PPIF: CIDA to clarify
Camden and Islington
Mental HT claim privacy breached by Forum inspection
Cancer cases will treble
by 2025- NHS to go bankrupt
Cancer radiotherapy
and benefits
Cancer treatment inequality
kills 17,500 yearly
Capacity Planning comes
under scrutiny
Catalogue of abuse in NHS care homes
Children grow fatter as experts dither
Chief Exec Sir Nigel Crisp goes
Chief Medical Officer calls on NHS to eradicate waste
Chief Medical Officer
highlights Medication Errors and Adverse Incident Reporting
Choose and Book in
Barnet
Choosing healthy embryos
Choosing Health?
Clostridium difficile kills 934
Commercial expertise in
NHS could reduce private sector demand
Commision for Healthcare
to take over from CPPIH?
Commission for Social Care Inspection finds medication standards flouted
Concern about NPfIT "Connecting for Health" mounting
Correctness
CPPIH Area Meeting
at York: Minister to speak around July 19th?
CPPIH cloak and
dagger
CPPIH Consultation
exercise on future Forum organisation
CPPIH does not have the
power to ban Patient Forum work
CPPIH publish discussion
paper on future
CPPIH resists call for
an Independent Enquiry
CPPIH shutdown by
December?
CPPIH to go- from Health
Secretary John Reid
CPPIH to go?
CPPIH written evidence to Commons Health Committee on NHS deficits
Crisis at Good Hope obscures health policy failings
Direct Patient reporting
trial of Adverse Drug Reactions
Doctors as
patients
Doctors "not reporting
errors"
Does NHS need ISO
9000?
Doubts about flu vaccine
Drug access for 11
year olds
East Birmingham PF
announcing Public Enquiry
Elderly at risk in nursing homes
Enright recommends
Isolation for MRSA victims
Ethical Death
Euthanasia: a first
authoritative study
Euthanasia-Living wills
and Advance Directives
Extra billions for NHS largely wasted
Final Report of the
Association of Community Health Councils for England and
Wales
First witnesses called to HC PPI Inquiry
Forum
Regulations
Forum Support
Organisation (FSO) performance continues to be
unsatisfactory
Forums highly critical of support - Blair presses reform
Forums to go. New powers for patients with Local Involvement Networks?
Forums to merge
Forums will stay
Fraud in the NHS
FSO contracts
ineffectively enforced by CPPIH
GPs resist Patient Choose
and Book (CaB) for appointments
GP surgeries must be
open evenings and weekends
Have you been in conflict with CPPIH?
Health after Blair
Health Committee agrees PPI Inquiry terms of reference
Health Committee PPI Inquiry: Evidence
Health Committee PPI Inquiry: Some submissions
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Health Minister can compel if LINk access denied
Healthcare Commission
2005 NHS performance
Healthcare Commission annual healthcheck results
Healthcare Commission
First Annual Report
Healthcare Commission
swamped with complaints
Healthcare Commission
urges quality controls in A&E
Healthcare Commission
wants Trusts to review maternity services
Healthcare, Patient risk
and IT
Hewitt: "inefficiency and
poor financial management" not acceptable
Home access to NHS records plan
Hospital Aquired
Infection briefing
Hospital Cleaning Methods
obsolete
Hospital starved our grandmother to death, family tells inquest
Hospitals could face
MRSA charges
How is your PPIF
progressing?
"Huge mistakes in PFI
hospital building", NHS executives claim
Iatrogenic
disease
ICAS witholds information
and Forums write to Secretary of State
I'd like to see my doctor
In hospital one in 10 catches
infection
In the news: MMR vaccine,
Cannabis for MS, Tonsils and adenoids
Intel, Healthcare and the Royal Society
Intensive care deaths
blamed on Consultant inactivity
Isolation of MRSA victims
not beneficial
Janet Albu
Janet Albu at London
Region CPPIH
Justice for Patient
Forum volunteers
Kafka-esque
investigation by CPPIH
Keep
Challenging!
Kennedy urged proper
protection for whistleblowers
Laundered overalls for
Doctors called for at BMA Conference
Ken Livingston supports
transitional funding for Patient Forums
Leading Hospital Safety
Expert reports on his coronary bypass
Learning from Mistakes
Legal victory could open
MRSA claim floodgates
Lethal hospital
Infection rocket
Leslie Ash to sue Chelsea
and Westminster Hospital
LINks Bulletin
Issue 1 – March 2007
Listening to patient voices
Little capacity to
scrutinize the NHS
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
Local Government and Public Involvement Bill second reading
London Ambulance Forum
reports CPPIH and support organisation failure
London Ambulance PF calls
for all England Forum
London Ambulance Service
PF to consider control of its budget
London Forum
Consultation
London Forum requests nominees
London PF Working Group
requests comments
London Regional Election
results
Malcolm Alexander writes
to Private Eye
Malnutrition a major NHS
problem
Manchester Patient Forums
set up Hotline and go on Bugwatch: A model for us all?
Medical education fails to
prepare new doctors
Medical errors are
leading cause of U.S. hospital deaths
Medical Ethics"
Religious Dogma Overrides Equal Treatment
Medical Nemesis" The
Expropriation of Health
Mental Health and nutrition
Mental Health in the
mainstream
Mental Health Services scrutinised by Healthcare Commission
Mental Healthcare unsafe
Michael English says PPIFs may be emasculated
Migrant
Healthcare
Millions for NHS pay, but little for beds and operations
Mind claims one in five
mental patients assaulted
Monitoring age at death
can produce dramatic improvements
MRSA dissappears after
twelve months
NAO reports on Connecting for Health delays
National Association of
Patient Forums to replace CPPIH?
National Audit Office attacks Consultant productivity
National Clinical
Assessment Authority
National Forum draft
schedule and role
National Forum Elected
National PPI Convention
2005
National homes swindle: A growing scandal
New Chief Exec for
CPPIH
New consultant contract has no benefit for patients
New Mental Health
Laws
New York proposes ban on trans fats
NHS Cancer intitiative
fails
NHS Chief Exec Annual
Report but in the real world...
NHS chief criticises
trusts for running up £250m deficit
NHS Clinical
Governance
NHS fails Allergy
sufferers
NHS fights infection too
little too late
NHS hospital patients 40
times more likely to catch MRSA than in Europe
NHS IT: Choose and Book
(CaB)
NHS lottery blamed for
5000 deaths
NHS National Patient
Safety Agency (NPSA)
NHS patient survey
2004
NHS Plans for Child
Healthcare
NHS productivity rate 'falling'
NHS redress bill and Forum Statutory powers
NHS Staff 'Do Not Want
to Be Treated in Their Hospitals'
NHS Trust Management
failure persists
NHS waiting lists can be eliminated
NICE challenged on dementia drug ruling
No blanket for
"frozen" patient
No criminal liability
for dirty hospital managers
No time to train
surgeons
Not washing hands kills more than drunk driving
Nurses fume, Hewitt fiddles, Patients die but we don't know why
Nutrition in care
Homes under fire
ODPM Final report on
Mental Health and Social Exclusion
One in seven GP surgeries fail minimum standards
One in 15 Doctors could
be abusing alcohol or drugs
One in 11 patients
acquire an Infection in Hospital
Our health, our care,
our say
Pan-London Forum Working
Group formed
Panorama: NHS care swindle
Panorama: Undercover
Hospital Cleaner
Panorama: Undercover
Nurse
Parliamentry Questions on
PF Recruitment
Patient Choice and
Mental Health
"Patient forums could be
on way out"
Patient Forum changes "will fail"
Patient Forum excellence
Patient Perspectives on Change: Safety and Justice
Patient Record Conference
Patient Safety moves up the agenda
Patient Safety: CPPIH
hosts workshop
Patient Safety: The
Agency responds
Patients Association
Clean Hospitals Summit
Patients view their GP records at home over web
Patients' Records
critical to risk reduced NHS
People 'face suicide risk
when pleas go unheard'
Pickering calls for an
Independent Medical Inspectorate
Pledge to end NHS elderly abuse
Police say 25% of all
offences in Local Hospital
POPS in human blood
studied by Co-op Bank and WWF
PPI Forum Monitor
magazine announces their Conference
PPI Review Expert Panel
PPI Prize for Unsung NHS
Heroes
PPI reforms threat to
rural communities
PPIF - Working
Together
PPIF Official Knowledge
Management System
PPIFs should represent
working people
Preventable Deep Vein
Thrombosis kills 60,000 per year in NHS?
Private Sector moves in to manage GPs
Professional
Activity
Primary Care Trusts to be halved
Quality measures for
Primary Care Trusts
Queen's Speech
Rayner's 100 days to
clean the NHS
Redesigning the broken processes in the Health Service
Redmile-Gordon and the
rubber gloves
Re-examining the Roles of
CPPIH and Forum Support Organisations
Referral Mangement investigated by Channel 4 news
"Reinventing the NHS"
Harriet Sergeant recommends
Report safety problems to
NPSA Freephone 0800 0152536
Results, not
excuses
Rights of Inspection and visits: Do councils want LINks?
Row erupts over secret
filming of hospital filth
Salt, Fat and
Obesity
Scrap mobile phone ban
plea
Seroxat
iatrogenisis means change at MHRA
Shipman Enquiry Fifth
Report
Shipman's former patients go online
Some statistics on
Error
Sports medicine treats
musculo/skeletal disease- NHS asseses
St Georges publishes
death rates by speciality
Star Ratings
Stevenage to raise
profile
Stoke Mandeville to be prosecuted?
Strategic Health
Authorities (SHA) monitor PPI Forums
Stronger voice
for patients
Sunday Times
investigates adverse drug reactions
Sugar rich diet produces
heart disease
Surgeon told to make patients
wait as PCT makes cuts
Surgery Monitor
Surrey & Sussex NHS
Trust A&E treat a stroke patient
The killing season
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The Matron's
Charter
The May meetings - who do
they belong to?
The problem with
CPPIH
Three resign from Camden
PCT PF calling for Inquiry
Third of day surgery
cases cancelled
Top 50 Trusts in the
Patient Complaints League
Trust fined £50,000
for patient scalding death
Two-thirds of hospitals
too dirty
UK Euthanasia 18,000 a
year?
Umbilical cord synthetic
toxins
University of York's
'Health Policy Matters'
US Veteran's Hospital
shows us how to do it
Using Private Sector
worsens NHS Trust debt
Vitamin D and cancer?
Wait for brain scan or
go private
Wanless calls for free basic care for elderly
Warnock backs Mental
Capacity Bill
What are my chances
doc?
What killed my Dad?
When Forum Members are
unwell at meetings
Where is Labour's Health Policy Taking us?
Why did Krista Ocloo die?
Why do 80 trusts have no data access?
Worst Mental Health
Trust in the country
Wrong site sugery errors increase
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Contributors
Janet Albu
MRSA Briefing
All London Forum?
"Kafka-esque"
investigation by CPPIH
London Region
CPPIH
Extracts from CIDAs
contract
Choosing Health?
First Public Meeting
of University College Hospital Trust Patients Forum
Justice for Patient
Forum volunteers
NHS redress bill and Forum Statutory powers
Malcolm Alexander
Ken Livingston supports
transitional funding for Patient Forums
The problem with
CPPIH
London Ambulance Service
PF to consider control of its budget
Malcolm Alexander writes
to Private Eye
Forums will stay
Ruth Appleton
Migrant
Healthcare
Hilary Barnard
London Forum
Consultation
London PF Working Group
requests comments
Pan-London Forum Working
Group formed
Parliamentry Questions on
PF Recruitment
"CIDA has good days and
bad days"
The May meetings-who do
they belong to?
Jane Barratt
Sports Medicine therapy for Fibromyalgia
Clinical Medicine
Creates Unnecessary Physical Disability
Fibromyalgia
Improving post-natal
care
Veronica Brinton
Commision for Healthcare
to take over from CPPIH?
Paul Burns
One Disenchated View:
PPI Convention 2005
Justice for Patient
Forum volunteers
Top 50 Trusts in the
Patient Complaints League
Mike Cox
PPI reforms threat to
rural communities
Donald Espie
Successful PPI Forums
Gerald Gilbert
The Local Community
Role in the NHS
NHS Trusts Annual
Health Checks–Can PPI Forums rise to the Challenge?
Maurice Hoffman
Strategic Health
Authorities (SHA) monitor PPI Forums
Graham Ixer
"Forums will
Stay"
Marc Jeffrey
The Way Forward
Bullying as a Public
Health issue
Robert Jones
Rights of Inspection and visits: Do councils want LINks?
Ruth Marsden
CPPIH Area Meeting at
York: Minister to speak around July 19th?
John Murphy
The Problem with
CPPIH
Marl Oley
LINKS – Soft Snow on the landscape?
Martin Rathfelder
Health after Blair
Mike Reddin
Commision for Healthcare
to take over from CPPIH?
Robin Readmile-Gordon
Surrey & Sussex NHS
Trust A&E treat a stroke patient
Redmile-Gordon and the
rubber gloves
Paul Tovey
Why I resigned
Janet Upward
Re-examining the Roles of
CPPIH and Forum Support Organisations
Thanks to the contributors. Keep us alert to Developments!
Nick Green
Editorial and Web support
Experts Write
BMJ Talks
Delivering healthcare
in the twenty-first century
Dr Foster survey of
performance and services
Enter the
PPIFO discussion group
Experts Patients
write
NHS quality and
performance
"Private complaints and
public health"
Search Medical
Journals
The Local Community
Role in the NHS
PPIF News
8% Overspend at
Bedford Hospital Trust
1,107 Operations
cancelled
£10 million loan prevents namimg and shaming
£3m waste of space
999 Curbs for Minor
Ailments
E. Lancs A&E targets
missed
All Cumbria Forums
Consulting Patients
Anger at Mayday waiting lists
Barnet PF looks at
Trust Books
Bedside phone ripoff
Birmingham and
Solihull Mental Health Trust demolish treatment centre
Birmingham Councillors
agree Home Care best
Birmingham Psychiatric
unit closure
Blackpool Ward staff shortage
Brent and Harrow
PPIF
Bromsgrove and
Redditch Patients' Forum
Calderdale care home
Inspections inadequate
Call for more superbug
facts
Cancelled operations down
Cancer unit closure
shock
Care Home closure
anger
Care homes lottery
Carlisle PF on
Bugwatch
Charity to relieve
bed-blocking?
Consultant hero suspended for Whistleblowing
Cost cutting at Royal Calderdale
Crews reject break pay
deal
Cumberland Infirmary
goes for "Deep Clean"
Cumria Forums
combine
Cumbria PF consult
Public in Shopping Centre
Cut visits to reduce
MRSA?
Cuts in hospital
cleaner
Debt and doubt in
Herts
Delayed operations the 'real cost' of cash crisis
Derriford Hospital
Clean Up Vow
Derriford Hospital
runs out of pillows
A dirty, bloody,
health hazard
Dirty Hospitals: the
shock facts
Dirty Labs
Dispersal of dementia
sufferers
Do you want a surgery
here?
Doctors set bad
example
Don't move hospital,
say Papworth patients
East Surrey PF Work
Plan
Epping Forest
PPIF
European Patients'
Forum linked to Pharmaceutical Indistry
Farcical Consultation
Fears over
out-of-hours surgeries axe
Fewer chiefs
First British Medical
Association patients' group meets in London
First Public Meeting
of University College Hospital Trust Patients Forum
Five weeks wait to see
the GP
Forum plans slammed
Forum welcomes Foundation status
Four hours in
A&E
Free help to kick habit
Friday working?
Furness PF Hygiene
Seal of Approval
GP service reduction
in Calderdale
Half Barnet GP surgeries unfit
Hammersmith closes Ravenscroft Park
"Handwash plan to
combat "Superbug"
Harry Cayton, Director
for Patients and Public at the DoH speaks
Hartlepool battles
obesity
Have your say about
Whipps
Health bosses examine
hospital's plans
Health watchdog quits
over focus on 'inane issues'
Health Park in West
Cumbria
Help us clean up our
act!
Hertsmere PF Surgery
Closure
Hewitt's discrete debt
visit
Hope at last on
dentist crisis?
Hospital cuts visiting
hours
Hospitals in star
ratings setback
Hospitals under fire
over Infection Rates
Hoteliers Health
Appeal
Huddersfield Filth
shock
Hydrogen peroxide
mist treats MRSA
Hygiene Spot
Checks
Immigrant Mental Health access
Inspectors to visit
mental health ward
Intoxicated
Outpatients
Ipswich Hospital PF
reviews Emergencies
Ipswich MRSA
fight
Ipswich PCT focus on
Public Health
Ipswich PF
investigates A&E delays
Ipswich shuffles
beds
Irresponsible
management
Kingston PPIF cleans
up
Late night closure for
Bartlet Injury Unit
Lewisham Porters
Infection Control training exposé
Lincolnshire Patient
Forum
Location of Super
Hospital
Man, 70, found hanged
at hospital
Maternity to be
upgraded
Mental health service cuts
Missed
appointments
More Members
needed!
More Slamming: this
time a surgeon
MP vows to save
Felixstowe General
N. Wales out-of-hours
GP service too remote
NELMHT PF to "Ward
Watch"
New chief at Surrey and Sussex
New Hospital for
Bracknell
Newquay Hospital -a
centre of excellence
No blanket for
"frozen" patient
No Sainsbury's needle
exchange
Norfolk care homes
closure
Northumberland PF
survey
Notts MHT bosses leave
in funds probe
Ooh Matron! Cleaner
success?
Op cancelled four
times
Ops in the back of a
lorry
Parking charges rise
is "diabolical"
Parking fees dropped for disabled
Parking privatised
Patient praises SW
Yorks MH Trust
Patients pay more to
phone GP
PF praises cleanliness
PF changes the
menu
PF holds Public
Inquiry
PF not consulted on staff cuts
PF set for shake up
PF thanked for hygiene report
£17.4 million
loss at UCLH in six months
Planning Blackpool Health
supercentres
PPIF supports £9.4m
debt plan
Prisons become PCT
responsibity
Rising hospital debt causes patient fears
Royal Free admits
hygiene crisis
Royal Free baby unit
saved
Royal Free cutbacks kick in
Royal Free pays out £650,000 after routine op death
Saturday Sugery
closing in Cornwall
Shock rating in new
guide
Slought and Windsor
fit and well
South Manchester PF Survey Breast Care
St Mary's Hospital to
be foundation? Suffolk Mental Health Partnership
PPIF
Stroke recovery ward
to good to close
Surgeon forced to quit
op
Sutton and Merton PCT
PF seeking views
The rot sets
in
The problem with hospital food
Think Clean
Campaign
Trust under the
spotlight
Trust wants to know
how well it is doing
Tynedale Maternity
Services
Tynedale PFs support
Anti-Smoking initiative
Uncontrolled costs of
Whittington redevelopment
Walk-in centre open 20 hours per week
Ward phone call cost
probe
Watchdogs wanted for
health care forums
Watford £13m
deficit: two wards closed
West Middlesex
Hospital Trust PPIF
West Suffolk Hospital
faces £7 million deficit
Westminster deficiency
in Dentistry and Mental Health
Wexham Bugwatch
targets too low
Whipps hails meeting
success
Zero rating for
hospital drags down standards
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