All Editorial articles – Page 5
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CommentSteve Preston: Top tips to keep your career going
Do you see the announcements about radical NHS funding cuts and the changing agenda as a threat or an opportunity? Now might be a good time to start re-evaluating and managing your future to meet the challenges.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to take a whole family approach to mental health
The latest guidance on treating parents with mental health problems suggests a whole family approach is the surest way to improve care and end stigma
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS must look after its hidden workers
Carers play a central role in many healthcare users’ lives. Although services are recognising that they must be valued and supported, there is much more to be done to ensure this unpaid workforce’s wellbeing
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Nudge - Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness
This book promotes choice not coercion for social marketing
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CommentJenny Rogers on tendering
The person on the telephone sounds very young. I am stifling incredulity at her request. “You mean you want me to tender for this?” I ask.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use an ASBO to prevent bad behaviour
Employees should not work in fear. NHS organisations can apply for a controlling order against threatening members of the public, advise Judith Sharratt and Gemma Brannigan
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HSJ KnowledgeParatroopers mark D-Day in war on childhood obesity
Drafting in paratroopers to show overweight children that exercise is fun is just one novel initiative that has had results.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Reckoning with Risk
We can all get to grips with statistics when they are presented properly
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CommentKen Jarrold: Five ways to give feedback
Feedback is one of the most valuable gifts our colleagues can give us. To find someone who has the tact, courage and skill to tell you honestly how you are doing is a very rare thing indeed. In 36 years of full time work I had seven good appraisals.
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HSJ KnowledgeSmoking cessation: how clinicians can break the habit
GPs and nurses who treat smoking as a clinical dependence and not just a lifestyle choice are more effective in referring people to cessation services.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhistleblowers in the NHS: keep in tune with the law
When staff raise concerns about what is happening in their workplace, managers should not respond with a kneejerk threat of dismissal. Have a whistleblowing policy in place and be sure of all the facts, advises Jane Hobson
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HSJ KnowledgeBook review: Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress Free-Productivity
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your workload? Find it hard to focus on the work at hand? Wish you were more relaxed and could achieve more with less effort? There is no reason to lose hope.
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CommentSheila Williams on to coach or not to coach
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s 2008 survey of learning and development reported an increase in the use of coaching - not just for senior managers and directors, but for all employees.
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HSJ KnowledgeKnow the figures behind the facts on health inequalities
In an age of information overload, the need for relevant data is growing as boards face tough decisions on reducing health inequalities, as Stuart Shepherd explains
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HSJ KnowledgeFT competencies: a new look for leaders
The next step in the evolution of foundation trusts will require their top people to develop different leadership skills from those that did the job in the early days
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CommentNicky Spencer on aspiring to leadership
July brings us a further step forward in the delivery of Inspiring Leaders, the regional leadership plans.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Who Moved My Cheese?
This book’s a bestseller, but could all those mice have possibly got it wrong?
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ Awards 2009 - Improving Patient Access
2008 Winner: London NHS Diagnostic Service with Croydon Federation
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CommentKen Jarrold on how to win a job
A lesson we all have to learn is to cope with the disappointment of not getting a job we had wanted.