All Cancer articles – Page 67
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View from the floor: end of life care
Helene Hibbert is a Macmillan occupational therapist. She works in end of life care at St Mary's Hospital in London's Imperial College Healthcare trust
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Making internal communications work
Communicating effectively with staff can head off PR disasters and help trusts take advantage of their best ambassadors, says Lyn Smith
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Adolescent services: smells like teen spirit
The teenage years are not the easiest: testing boundaries, asserting your independence and taking risks - and this age group often falls between child and adult healthcare. Claire Laurent reports on moves to target services for young people's needs
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Making the most of patient and public involvement
Involving patients in service improvement is a great way of ensuring that services meet local needs. Catherine Oakley and Anne-Marie Conneally explain how one trust has achieved this
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Stroke strategy: how are we doing?
The national stroke strategy, which launched in December 2007, aimed to improve services for those who suffer stroke and to intervene early to prevent stroke.
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Improving quality: a perfect 10 from patients
The next stage of NHS reform will be about improving quality - and an ambitious outcomes measurement regime will be crucial, say Jon Sussex and Adrian Towse
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Cancer screening: two decades on target but still more to do
Thousands of women's lives have been saved thanks to the screening programmes introduced 20 years ago. However, there is no cause for complacency, as marginalised women still need to be reached.
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Cornwall's one-site cancer plans run aground
A primary care trust's aim to centralise specialised cancer services has been derailed by the council's overview and scrutiny committee, which wants a full public consultation.
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One year on from the smoking ban
One year into the smoking ban in England it is still too early to predict its long-term effects on public health but there are reasons to be cheerful, says Stuart Shepherd
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More of the NHS's top people
I think you missed out some key people from your Diamond Sixty list. For instance national cancer director Mike Richards, for delivering the cancer plan and developing the cancer reform strategy. He encourages a bottom-up approach and listens to patients and staff.
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Jon Restell on praise for the NHS
I am writing this column soft-eyed at the close of the busy next stage review/NHS 60th anniversary week, with Nye Bevan staring exhortation at me from my desk calendar.
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Drifting apart: why health inequalities are getting bigger
Is it fair to expect the NHS alone to stop health inequalities widening when they are shaped by so many factors in society - income, housing, education - or is the health service failing in its basic responsibilities?
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Deaths data: under threat
The national confidential inquiries into why patients die have saved lives, but funding problems now threaten their own survival. Rebecca Norris looks at their prospects
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Data collection: Big Brother isn't watching you
Health information has not kept pace with population change. Ruth Thorlby and Veena Raleigh look at efforts to improve collection
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Media Watch: looking back on 60 years
On the NHS's 60th anniversary, several papers concluded the government is not doing a bad job of running the service.
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The next steps in reducing inequality
The government is determined to reduce health inequalities by 2010, but this requires a concerted effort from all local agencies in the human workshop.
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Mainstreaming health inequalities in action
Two senior executives discuss putting healthcare at the centre of local policy.
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A look inside a care trust plus
North East Lincolnshire is home to England's first care trust plus. Stuart Shepherd spoke to its ambitious - and entirely local - leader
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Alan Johnson on narrowing the gaps in health equality
Health inequalities blight our communities. It is unacceptable that in the first decade of the 21st century, the length of a person's life is still determined by where they were born and their social status.
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Lessons in success: delivering on health inequalities
Three leaders who are tackling inequalities in deprived areas explain why their initiatives are working