All Cancer articles – Page 67
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Future NHS: the heat is on
As the population changes, the web transforms our relationship with information, medicines emerge to suit individuals' genomes and the planet warms, the NHS faces momentous challenges. By Daloni Carlisle
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Life expectancy tool helps address local inequalities
A life expectancy intervention tool is now available to help all local planners make informed decisions, writes Andy Cowper.
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Collaborative approach to cancer inequalities
A national initiative is encouraging patients to present themselves earlier when they display symptoms they might otherwise ignore.
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NHS60: Tougher at the top
Over the past six decades the working life of consultants may have lost some of its glamour. Now their role has to evolve if they are to regain their standing in the health service, writes David Kerr
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NHS60: Diamond sixty
Who are the most influential people in the last 60 years of the National Health Service? HSJ invited a panel of prestigious judges to pick 60 people who have been central in shaping today’s NHS. This list includes politicians, managers, professionals, campaigners, civil servants, historians and designers
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NHS60: What's the verdict?
We invite three health pundits to pull no punches and deliver their judgments on the past and future of the NHS
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NHS60: Patients first
The views of the most important person in the health service were scarcely considered in the early days. Don Redding looks at how patient power has evolved
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NHS60: Retrospective
Former chief executives and health authority leaders compare their challenges and ambitions with the picture they see emerging for managers today. By Alison Moore
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NHS60: If the care fits
Experts predict a future in which primary care will be delivered by a variety of suppliers in integrated packages tailored to individual needs, reports Ingrid Torjesen
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Rehabilitation in palliative care: a team approach
In 2003, a unique allied health professional team was set up to work with palliative patients at St Mary's Hospital, part of the Imperial College Healthcare trust. Helene Hibbert explains how it works
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HSJ KnowledgeWider engagement in joint assessment
The starting point for improving health services and reducing heath inequalities is data. To identify areas for improvement, exactly the same data must be collected in the same way.
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NHS Diamond 60
We asked readers to comment on who they thought had been the most influential people in the history of the service.
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Anyone here a doctor who speaks nurse?
Tower of Babel-esque communication problems in the NHS are more than just a nuisance - they cost lives. How can the service prevent acronyms, tribes and egos putting patients at unavoidable risk, asks Mark Gould
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Health check for writing skills
Health service professionals read and write mountains of paperwork. Developing a clearer, more direct style of writing will save time and money for all concerned, as Robert Ashton explains
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Darzi review: Give old people a seat at the modernisation table
Services for older people are falling down government priority lists. Two consultant nurses argue for specialist care, in hospital and the community, to be made explicit in reform plans
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NHS60: Icing on the cake
Three managers who share their 60th birthday with the NHS talk to Emma Dent about their long careers in the service
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Quality has to bind the Darzi recipe for reform
Improving quality will become the national priority under the Darzi review. This essential ingredient for reform should bring together better commissioning, better skills and greater incentives for organisations and clinicians
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HSJ KnowledgeCosts and benefits of new policies
The systematic evaluation of costs and benefits of health technologies by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is one of the success stories of the NHS over the past 10 years.
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Frank Dobson looks back as NHS turns 60
Back in 1997 when the New Labour government was bright and shiny as a new penny, Frank Dobson, the MP for Holborn and St Pancras, was appointed health secretary.
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Hospital franchises - quantum leap
The Royal Marsden is pioneering a satellite cancer unit at another hospital. Will the franchise model play a big part in the era of choice and competition? Helen Mooney finds out