All Comment articles – Page 273
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 30 April 1948From a study of old age, carried out by the Nuffield Foundation Survey Committee on people in Wolverhampton."In the great majority of instances the old people enjoy their food and eat ordinary food. Among women, however, a larger proportion ...
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Another coat of arms suggestion for Sir Robert Naylor
David Poynton, chair of consultancy Public Sector Consultants (formerly Robert's finance director at Heartlands trust for 10 years - we are still on speaking terms, he says) writes to suggest a coat of arms for Robert Naylor (End Game, passim). He explains it thus: "The heraldic meaning is as follows; ...
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'Lunatic' goings-on in Welsh government
From our kind friends on the news desk comes the following intriguing tale of a Conservative MP who seems to have developed the power of second sight.First minister ofWales, Labour’s Rhodri Morgan launched a stinging attack against a Conservative assembly member for his “farcical” and “lunatic” attempt to discredit the ...
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Awards preview
Managing long term care sponsored by Sanofi AventisThe growing number of community matrons working across and covering just about every GP practice in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care trust patch – there are now 39 – is just one indicator of the success of the county’s ...
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Deep clean - a patient's view
What did service users make of the government's deep-clean initiative? We asked one woman to tell us what happened when the cleaners arrived on her ward
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Bedside manna - a new ethos of care
Martin Winbolt-Lewis advocates moving away from mechanistic approaches to patient care and embracing an empathetic, holistic approach to caring for people who are ill or injured
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Helen Bevan on workload liberation
Over the last decade, I have made many attempts (some documented in this column) to improve my personal work systems and processes but struggled to sustain them under the burden of a growing workload.
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Raj Persaud on the art of seduction
Giacomo Casanova is perhaps the most famous seducer in history who, it is said, lured well over 100 women into bed. Although this Italian-born libertine lived several centuries ago, his techniques of seduction could hold a valuable lesson for the NHS.
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Andrew Jones on the next big shift in healthcare
I often wonder what will drive the next quantum shift in healthcare. If we ran a poll today, world class commissioning or the Darzi review would probably top the list. These ideas are fine, but it seems to me that they represent an incremental nudge rather than a quantum shift.
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Simon Jones with news from the NHS in Wales
I suppose, as this is the first of my missives from Wales, it would be just as well to bring the less than ardent follower of things Welsh quickly up to date on where we are in the principality.
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Is your trust tackling inequalities?
Is your trust making real progress in overcoming health inequalities? Read Robina Shah's commentary and join the discussion by posting your thoughts below
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Media Watch: health service jargon
Most would agree health service jargon is a pain but it appears it can also be dangerous.
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Sophia Christie on tackling the digital divide
Economic growth is increasingly driven by the skill of the local workforce and more specifically confidence and competence in using digital technologies.
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Michael White on audit culture
Reading the high-minded Times Literary Supplement on a comfortable sofa the other weekend, I stumbled on a ferocious attack on the audit culture that is now so much a routine feature of national life, NHS included.
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Awards preview
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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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.