All Health Service Journal articles in 29 November 2007
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All Our Yesterdays
November 28, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewThe tale of how to treat gastric and duodenal ulcers continues. Aftercare was described. Some patients were advised to carry with them a mixture consisting of cream, milk water and sodium citrate and drink a glassful 'every two hours throughout ...
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Weird world health
What do you think the effects of having half a brain would be? A below average mental capacity seems the obvious answer. But a 39 year old woman who went to hospital in China and was discovered to only have grey matter on the right side of her brain had ...
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Looky likey
General manager at Classic Hospitals' Elland and Methley Park Hospitals Chris Harrison writes to say that while leafing through some recent issues of HSJ he briefly thought he was reading All About Soaps magazine. 'NHS Choices project lead and DoH chief information officer Beverley Bryant looks rather like (long standing ...
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No plans to close Queen Mary's
You present a stark analysis of the implications of existing private finance initiative schemes on reconfiguration options for outer south east London ('PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze'), writes Simon Robbins
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NHS surplus could cover prescription costs
I read with interest your article on how the NHS is set to end the year with a £2bn surplus, writes Ciaràn Devane
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Care UK
Care UK has called on the Department of Health to 'reinforce confidence' in the market by proceeding to financial close on the outstanding independent sector treatment centre schemes.Care UK chief executive Mike Parish said that although the company had been left 'shaken' when the DoH announced earlier this month that ...
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Patients with rare conditions are not doomed
Philip Butcher of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign writes in response to an article on collective commissioning in the NHS
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Karen Reissmann
A chief executive who sacked a trade unionist nurse has broken her silence after months of strike action.Sheila Foley, head ofManchestermental health and social care trust, has until now remained tight-lipped about the dismissal of senior nurse Karen Reissman, who says she lost her job for speaking out in her ...
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David Peat on turning health policy into action
One of the eternal dilemmas for a chief executive is to translate the words of policy documents into meaningful action on the front line
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David Amos on HR reform in the health service
HR reform is sweeping public and private employers - 53 per cent of organisations have restructured their HR function in the past year, and 81 per cent have done so in the last five years
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A guide to world class commissioning
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations
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Race equality monitoring and diabetes
The Healthcare Commission has found few trusts obey data law on ethnicity. Caroline White looks at the implications for diabetes
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Keeping non-executive directors in the NHS game
Non-executive directors in the NHS are increasingly being recruited from business backgrounds. How do they cope with such a different environment, asks Alison Moore
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Paul Jennings on personalised services
Developing personalised services for people with learning disabilities has helped to improve access
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List of PCTs to go with under-doctored areas story
The full list of PCTs are: Manchester, Barking and Dagenham, Knowsley, Sandwell,Wolverhampton City, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Liverpool, Sunderland Teaching, Birmingham East and North, Halton and St Helens, Heart of Birmingham Teaching, Barnsley, Leicester City, Oldham, Blackburn with Darwen, Stoke on Trent, Hounslow, Hull, Nottingham City, Blackpool, Ashton, Leigh and ...
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Care Quality Commission plans are unrealistic
The restructuring and amalgamation of regulators is not currently having a good press, writes BMN Clarke
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World class commissioning will secure NHS's future
Mark Britnell recently set out the government's ambitious vision for commissioning in HSJ. Many of our patients have seen the enormity of the improvements in the service over the last few years. However, as clinicians and managers, we have to accept that we have not been able to create a ...
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NHS must treat patients with rare conditions fairly
We read Sophia Christie's article on collective commissioning with interest. Ms Christie clearly takes the view that no patient with a rare disease is worth treating, as drugs developed for such conditions have limited evidence and are very expensive due to high development costs. So much for the NHS being ...
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Protecting patients' personal data is crucial
The furore surrounding the Treasury's mismanagement of 25 million people's personal details has real and worrying lessons for those of us dealing with data in the health service, says Robert Navarro
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Staff engagement - advice for managers
What can health service managers do to ensure their staff are motivated and engaged? Greg Brown offers some pointers