All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 106

  • News

    Incentives needed for GP expansion

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Incentives must be in place to ensure the hundreds of extra GPs who gain first year training posts next year stay in the workforce, a senior analyst has warned.

  • News

    Scotland's day surgery rates vary widely

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    An audit of day surgery rates in Scotland has revealed wide variations in performance between health boards.

  • News

    Nick Clegg rejects NHS insurance plans

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has chosen the launch of a report calling for primary care trusts to be replaced by a health insurance style system to flesh out policies on healthcare reform.

  • News

    Care integration must tackle inequality

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Organisations in integrated care pilot schemes will be expected to deliver measurable improvements on health inequalities, the Department of Health has revealed.

  • News

    Mental health services boost

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Community mental health services have improved steadily over the last four years, but trusts must ensure gains are sustained when systems change next month, the Healthcare Commission has said.

  • Leader

    No amount of health funding will be an antidote to poverty

    2008-09-11T09:00:00Z

    As the political parties mobilise for the conference season it is tempting to believe there is broad consensus about the future of the NHS. But three debates that go to its heart are raging.

  • Comment

    Kevin Fickenscher on collaborative IT leadership

    2008-09-10T09:00:00Z

    When the NHS was created 60 years ago, no-one could have imagined the groundbreaking work the service does today, or even the role technology plays in enabling clinicians to deliver care.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Protecting emergency workers in the NHS

    2008-09-09T09:00:00Z

    The legal protection afforded to NHS workers varies considerably across the UK, a situation that could put some staff at risk. Ian Long explains

  • News

    Clinical Leaders - Tell a colleague

    2008-09-09T09:00:00Z

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  • Comment

    Mark Goldman on raising the NHS bar

    2008-09-09T09:00:00Z

    It's official. The NHS provides the most equitable healthcare anywhere in the world. But there are 18 countries whose citizens have better outcomes following cancer treatment than we do.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    On course for clinical leadership

    2008-09-08T09:00:00Z

    The chief medical officer's four clinical advisers explain their role and how it is helping to embed medical leadership in the NHS

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Benchmarking out of hours healthcare

    2008-09-08T09:00:00Z

    Huge variations in the cost and quality of out of hours healthcare around the country have led to moves to benchmark these services. Kaye McIntosh reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Treating children with severe medical problems

    2008-09-05T09:00:00Z

    Cases involving the treatment of children with chronic medical problems do not create legal precedents. Tracey Lucas explains why each decision taken by the courts must reflect what is in the child's best interests at the time

  • News

    Top-ups: experts divided over health's thorniest issue

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Should patients be allowed to top up their care by paying privately for drugs? The question has confounded experts and now the government has an unenviable task in making a final decision. Helen Crump reports

  • News

    Doctors' memory sticks threaten data security

    2008-09-04T09:00:00Z

    Hospital doctors are carrying 'hundreds of thousands of kilobytes' of sensitive and identifiable patient information around on memory sticks with no security protection, a survey has found.

  • Comment

    Amanda Doyle on the trouble with patient choice

    2008-09-02T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi, in his next stage review, talks a lot about choice, and why not? Greater choice of healthcare provider is, undoubtedly, a good thing.

  • Comment

    John Cochran on healers, leaders and partners

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi's review singles out Kaiser Permanente in the US as an example of an organisation with strong clinical leadership and says the NHS can learn from its 'practitioner, partner, leader' model. Permanente Federation director John Cochran explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The new NHS leadership challenge

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Developing new leaders is a strategic decision not an HR one, argues Chris Roebuck, and line managers should get started right away

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Making the most of patient and public involvement

    2008-08-29T09:00:00Z

    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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Legislation on international medical graduates

    2008-08-29T09:00:00Z

    Confirmation that international medical graduates cannot be excluded from training posts will have significant consequences for NHS employers. Afrene Campbell explains