All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 97
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Comment
David Levy on the Clinical Leaders Network
I recently had the pleasure of attending a meeting of strategic health authority leads of the Clinical Leaders Network. There were about 30 of us in the room, in three groups.
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News
Chief medical officer launches public health awards
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has established an annual awards event for those working in public health.
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on NHS kindness
At the end of 2008, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson was reported as saying that NHS staff have lost their compassion and that his organisation wants to help bring it back. I could not agree less.
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18-week target: how we lost the NHS wait
It was always a tough ask - could the NHS fundamentally change its ways of working for elective patients, transform the quality of the service that patients experience, reduce the backlogs of long waits, and cut waiting times dramatically?
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS discharge planning: lost for words
GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle
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NHS trusts 'complacent' about European working time directive
NHS trusts are 'complacent' about making the changes needed to comply with the European working time directive, doctors' leaders are claiming.
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More consultant paediatricians needed
An extra 3,000 consultant paediatricians are needed to deliver the safest possible service to children and their families, a Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report warns.
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Special administrators will oversee fate of failing NHS trusts
The fate of failing NHS trusts will be decided within three months of a special administrator being appointed to take over the roles of the chair and the board.
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HSJ Knowledge
Older people want more talk in A&E
The third national survey of patients in accident and emergency, which the Picker Institute recently conducted for the Healthcare Commission, found significant improvements since 2004, especially in communication by staff.
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News
PCTs fail to back up maternity care drive
Flagship government commitments to improve safety and choice of maternity services may be compromised in large parts of England.
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Managers call for GP commissioning reforms
NHS managers are showing signs of breaking with government policy by calling for a complete overhaul of practice based commissioning.
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News
NHS Confederation slates inequality duty
Government plans to make it a duty for the health service to tackle inequalities will result in meaningless bureaucracy, the NHS Confederation is warning.
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News
NHS leaders told to spend a day a week nurturing talent
Chief executives are being told to spend the equivalent of a day a week developing future leaders.
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NHS drug shortage looms as pound falls
The NHS could face a shortage of drugs because the weak pound means speculators are targeting UK pharmaceutical supplies for export to more lucrative markets.Data obtained by HSJ shows there has also been a dramatic slowdown in imports of cut-price branded drugs into the UK.
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News
Personal health budgets may spark tension between services
Personal health budgets for patients to spend as they wish will radically change commissioners' roles, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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HSJ talks to care services minister Phil Hope
Care services minister Phil Hope promises his personal experience of the health service as a Hodgkin’s patient will mean service users are at the heart of his policies. Helen Crump finds out what’s on his to-do list. Plus, watch an exclusive video interview with Mr Hope
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News
Scottish NHS sets out plan for children's specialist services
Children's and young people's specialist health services in Scotland are to receive £32m additional investment, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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DH unveils plans for NHS national leadership council
A national leadership council designed to nurture the next generation of NHS leaders has been launched by the Department of Health.The council will have up to 18 members, including five part-time leads for the priority areas of clinical leadership, top leaders, board development, emerging leaders and inclusion.
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Comment
Andrew Frankel on challenges in organisational leadership
In considering what leadership means from the perspective of a manager in a large organisation such as Care UK, I find myself contemplating the macro elements of leadership, such as communication, team formulation and strategy.
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News
Patient choice push for long-term conditions
Commissioners should be promoting patient choice for people with long-term conditions, the Department of Health has advised.