All Health Service Journal articles in 27 November 2008
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on NHS professions of the future
One of the issues that the good and the great are pondering is the role of different professions in the future.
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News
Personal branding: arm yourself with the right image
Is your image secure? In the latest in her series on branding, Debbie Smith offers a guide to reputation management
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HSJ Knowledge
Helen Bevan on NHS innovation
Innovation is a core theme for the next phase of NHS development. Innovation is about doing things differently or doing different things to achieve large gains in performance.
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HSJ Knowledge
Is cancer campaigning skewing health priorities?
It is a disease that grips both public and media attention and has become a dominant force in health policy as a result. But is vociferous campaigning over cancer care skewing priorities, asks Emma Dent
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HSJ Knowledge
Give lifesaving care at a stroke
An Essex trust is proving what fast stroke response can achieve, by introducing a specialist acute unit. Mark Hunter explains
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Comment
Andrew Jones on healthcare in a recession
We might not officially be in recession, but few would doubt the inevitability of a second quarter of negative growth being confirmed by the Office for National Statistics.
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News
Most hospitals breaching hygiene code - Healthcare Commission
Only one in 10 hospitals is fully compliant with the government's hygiene code, a Healthcare Commission review suggests.Of 51 trusts visited unannounced by the regulator, only five met all the requirements.
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News
DH reports mixed results on patient experience
The Department of Health has made mixed progress against a commitment to improve patient experience between 2005 and 2008.
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News
Nursing and Midwifery Council 'making progress'
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is making 'real progress on all issues' since a highly critical regulatory review of its work, its stakeholders have said.
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News
Young people need better mental health services, says charity
Three in four young people with mental health problems are not receiving the treatment they need, according to a report by New Philanthropy Capital.
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Blogs
Hidden racism and the health service
Does it matter to the NHS that an employee holds membership to the BNP? The BNP is not a banned organisation.
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Comment
Steve Feast on leading care across boundaries
Achieving world class outcomes for patients challenges clinicians to ensure all parts of care pathways operate effectively and co-operatively.
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Blogs
HSJ50 got me thinking
I spent an idle 30 seconds last week perusing the HSJ's '50 people with the greatest influence on NHS management policy and practice in 2008'.
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News
Trafford Healthcare appoints new chief executive
Trafford Healthcare trust has appointed Ron Calvert as chief executive.
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News
Over a quarter of people in UK with HIV unaware of it, says HPA
Twenty-eight per cent of people living with HIV in the UK are unaware they are infected, the Health Protection Agency has said.
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News
Help announced to get people fit for work
Sick notes could be replaced by 'fit notes' and fit for work schemes launched for people who have been off work due to sickness, under proposals announced by health secretary Alan Johnson and work and pensions secretary James Purnell.
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News
Chancellor unveils plans for NHS cost savings
Primary care trusts will be asked to contribute to an extra £5bn of annual public sector efficiency savings by 2010-11, today's pre-Budget report saysThe report also says an extra £100m in capital funds will be spent upgrading up to 600 GP practices into 'training practices' as part of chancellor Alistair ...
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Comment
Paul Stanton on steering the NHS through financial crisis
The credit crunch and the consequent financial turmoil it has unleashed is a global phenomenon. For those who govern NHS organisations, whether as commissioners or providers, the mantra 'think global, act local' has never been more pertinent.
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Blogs
The end of the NHS
So the Labour Party has finally brought an end to the NHS. Universal healthcare free to all at the point of need and delivery is replaced by a universal healthcare floor over which you can buy anything that we're willing to sell you on an item of service basis depending ...
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News
Failings in end of life care waste £100m every year
Failings in the commissioning and provision of end of life care services are costing the NHS more than £100m every year.A damning National Audit Office report has found massive service variations, with a difference of more than £1,500 per death between the highest and lowest spending primary care trusts.