All Comment articles – Page 293
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Weird world health
'Tis the season of overeating, not that we at End Game would countenance anything but everything in moderation. But we regret to inform you that HSJ has been causing chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson concerns over the health of the nation. Sir Liam recently asked colleagues if the rumours ...
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Jogging Santas
For no reason other than it's Christmas, here are some pictures of jogging Santas, raising money for the jolly good cause of the British Heart Foundation. Lets hope it got them fit enough to be in good shape for delivering all your presents.
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Jan Little on person-centred care
Focusing care on individual needs, rather than a series of tasks that must be completed, can help manage challenging behaviours and reduce pressure to use covert medication
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David Woodhead on looking to the French for public health cues
Tackling obesity means watching how - and not just what - we eat. French eating habits could be a good example for the UK
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Simon Stevens on the science of incentives
During the coffee break at a seminar I once attended, I let slip that I thought two of my fellow panellists seemed 'quite switched on'. 'Yes,' a delegate replied, 'they've both got a Nobel Prize'. Umm, amazing powers of insight, Stevens.
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Your Humble Servant: a glimpse of the future NHS
The strangest thing happened to me during my recent MRI scan. Some sort of power surge occurred and the magnets went berserk. I don't really understand the physics, but the upshot was that time folded and I slipped through a vortex in time and space to find myself in 2068.
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Don't lose sight of the threat of HIV/AIDS
Last week the Terrence Higgins Trust marked its 25th anniversary with a Downing Street reception. Gordon Brown used the occasion to become the first prime minister in 15 years to talk about the severity of HIV rates in Britain.
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Some great work, but PCTs are still a long way off 'world class'
The Healthcare Commission's State of Healthcare report, published on Tuesday, reveals much to celebrate (for more background, click here).
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Media Watch: cancer strategy
The furore over party funding squeezed most health coverage out last week, but it made a return to the headlines as the government briefed newspapers on its new cancer strategy.
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Michael White on Alan Johnson
I don't know where it came from but in the past few days we've started reading in the papers that Gordon Brown may not last the course. What's more, health secretary Alan Johnson may be the man to take over.
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Building sustainability in the NHS estate
Lorraine Brayford argues that sustainability should be a priority in healthcare design and recognises those already working to deliver sustainable healthcare buildings for the future
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All Our Yesterdays
10 December, 1954, Hospital and Social Service JournalArticles of handicraft made by blind people had been exhibited in Middlesex, said the Journal this week. All the work exhibited had been done by blind people who 'owing to age or infirmity or for some other reason, were not able to engage ...
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This week's looky likey
Sussex Partnership trust chief executive and HSJ columnist Lisa Rodrigues writes to say: 'Having been outed as a lookey-likey for Delia Smith I am sensitive to the impact of such attention. But it would be a shame to miss the chance to point out the similarity between HSJ’s third most ...
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Kate Silvester on repairing processes in the NHS
NHS managers are not taught to understand how the symptoms of the NHS are generated by the invisible processes they and their colleagues in other departments manage. NHS shop floor staff are experts in these processes - but only as far as their own role goes. This process blindness leads ...
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Managers could face prosecution without infection control
Healthcare-associated infections are a serious problem in the NHS. It can only be a matter of time before a prosecution is brought against managers and clinicians at a hospital trust, says Andrew Jones
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Jon Restell on unravelling the pay-off era
The NHS is more anxious to stop problems coming to light than solving them. Good, bad, indifferent - the system does not care about judging your actual performance
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Management training push for doctors
The momentum for management training for doctors has received a further boost this week with moves by the King's Fund to establish an MBA for doctors (for more details, click here).
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Michael White on data security
When I heard that young Tory thruster George Osborne warn that the fiasco over the two missing child benefit discs from HM Revenue and Customs will prove the 'final blow' to the British ID card scheme, I wondered what it might also mean for the NHS.
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Emma Dent on Manchester's tale of two cities
There sometimes comes a point in life when you find yourself agreeing with people you never thought you would. I felt this way when I read former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith's report about Manchester.
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What is behind the NHS surplus?
Last week’s revelation by HSJ that the NHS is heading for a 1.8bn underspend raises the spectre of renewed financial turbulence.