Comment archive – Page 430
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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 ...
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PCTs must take action to tackle quality framework disparities
The data HSJ reveals today on the patients GPs exempt under the quality and outcomes framework raises questions about whether the system is being abused.
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Michael White on patient choice
Well, well, a stormy end to the Easter season. The Tories rampaged against perceived failures in the government's commitment to deep clean NHS hospitals.
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 9 April 1948A new type of hospital bedside locker has recently been designed. Its object is to place within the patient’s reach everything needed, to avoid delay and lessen the work of the staff. Invented by Miss Olive Matthews, is it named ...
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James McGruer on NHS marketing
The advent of patient choice in the NHS has created an opportunity for trusts to market their services to people outside their normal catchment areas.
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Ali Mohammed on staff surveys
Do you care what your staff think of working for your trust? Should you care? It is that time of year when we all receive our annual staff and patient survey results.
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Practices' minimum income is a guarantee of health inequity
Figures obtained byHSJ this week reveal huge variations in the amount GP practices are paid for doing their job, regardless of how many patients they serve or the severity of their needs.
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Freedom of information: accountability is part of the job
Hounslow primary care trust's failure to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act was so severe that the information commissioner Richard Thomas served draft High Court papers to force it to reveal information - the first time this has happened under the act.
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Your Humble Servant on Nicholson's blog
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: blogs and Zogs
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No continuing care cuts here
In your article 'Questions over continuing care cuts at quarter of PCTS' you make reference to several primary care trusts, including Peterborough, that have cut continuing care services. This is based on information PCTs submitted to the Department of Health between April and December 2007, writes Paul Kitney
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Shortage of doctors
The shortage of doctors and locums is affecting care and causing immense stress to remaining staff. As it is managed at department level, the scale of the problem may not be fully recognised, writes Richard Marks
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Dutch-style healthcare
David Cameron's plans for a 'luxury' health visiting service are based on a trip that his shadow cabinet colleagues made to Holland. This service is paid for by a top income tax rate of 52 per cent - which fits uneasily with the Conservatives' long-term agenda of tax cuts, writes ...