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Reducing Health Inequalities sponsored by the Department of HealthWhen East Lancashire primary care trust's Accident Prevention project won the Reducing Health Inequalities category, the team didn’t just collect the award for themselves. Janet West, integrated service delivery manager explains:"We entered because we wanted to highlight the commitment at an organisational ...
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Mike Nelsey on NHS data security
Giving staff quick and efficient access to patient information while ensuring that such data does not fall into the wrong hands is a key challenge facing the NHS
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
23 April 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital ReviewFrom an article on the care and dressing of wounds:"A surgical nurse’s hands should be kept in good condition by being thoroughly dried after each washing and by the use of a good hand cream that will prevent cracks and ...
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This week's lookey likey
Apparently BBC radio and TV presenter Adrian Charles purports that he is often mistaken for survival expert Ray Mears. Surely some mistake, we hear you cry - surely Mr Chiles strikes a closer resemblance to consultant, leadership guru and HSJ columnist Neil Goodwin? While being obliged to watch Match of ...
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David Peat on facing up to health inequalities
I suppose it is human nature to try to focus on the feel-good sides of life and shield ourselves from difficult or unpalatable realities.
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Ken Jarrold on NHS stability
It is April and something strange is going on in England and Scotland. No major structural changes are under way or planned.
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Maggie Rae on spending time in general practice
Sometimes it is good to see the world from another viewpoint. We can all get very focused on our priorities, roles and responsibilities. Occasionally it can be worth swapping seats and seeing how the world looks from a new angle.
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If it is this bad for staff, it is no wonder that patients complain
The annual Healthcare Commission staff survey has revealed a communication chasm between senior managers and staff.
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HSJ Awards: give your team something to celebrate
This week we launch the health service's annual celebration of excellence - the HSJ Awards.
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Your Humble Servant celebrates a record profit for the NHS
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Bonanza
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Michael White on biosimilars and generics
At my bus-pass holding time of life, you don't often come across a word whose meaning you could no more guess at than a street sign in Tokyo. It happened to me when trawling Hansard the other day. The word was 'biosimilars'.
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Media Watch: anti-infection alligators
The leech has long been recognised as the doctor's friend. Now another swamp creature is crawling to the forefront of healthcare.
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Noel Plumridge on boardroom drama
The setting: A hospital boardroom. A meeting of the executive team of an NHS trust is about to take place.
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Awards
Improving care with TechnologyThe highly impressive life and cost saving outcomes of the NHS North West and BroomWell HealthWatch telemedical electrocardiogram (ECG) pilot study, run over six months across the Lancashire and South Cumbria cardiac network (LSCCN), didn’t only make their mark with the HSJ Awards judging panel.The potential for ...
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Jerry Fishenden on how technology can transform healthcare
Technology has the power to transform healthcare provision, but policy makers and technologists must work together to achieve this
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This week's lookey likey
"On opening the 27 March issue of HSJ - I started at the back - [glad to hear it - End Game ed] I was surprised to see the picture of David Bowie - at first glance I thought it was Alan Johnson. Is it just me, or could ...
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How the NHS is failing vulnerable adults
What does the murder of a man with a learning disability have to do with the NHS? Not as much as it should, according to Margaret Flynn, who conducted an official inquiry into the death of Steven Hoskin in Cornwall
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Jenny Rogers on succession planning
Most chief executives would apparently rather chew on spiders than groom a successor.
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Lesley Wright on visual control
One of the four principal elements in Lean is visual control. We use visual control in everyday life, without a second thought.
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Hilary Thomas on working towards collaboration
These days, I rarely forage for myself in the evening, so frequently do I attend dinners of one sort or another. They attract an interesting cross section of people - managers and clinicians, as well as some who are both, policy wonks and observers, all discussing how the NHS is ...