External contributors – Page 264
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Michael White on the embryology bill
Another roller-coaster week as ministers and MPs engage in close combat over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill with one hand, while battling to maintain momentum on NHS reform with the other.
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Awards preview
Workforce Development sponsored by Skills for HealthOne of the many interesting features of the award entry from the DESMOND programme – diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed – is that it didn’t come from a trust or healthcare organisation.The training and quality development programme is a ...
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New categoryWorld class commissioning sponsored by the Department of HealthIn December 2007, the Department of Health, together with the NHS launched the vision for world class commissioning – a document which sets out what it means to be world class – ‘adding life to years and years to life’ and ...
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Denise Platt on making progress on AIDS
Since the National AIDS Trust was created 21 years ago, we have seen amazing developments in managing HIV and most people diagnosed with HIV in the UK can now look forward to a long life.
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review , May 28 1948"It is not the fault of the central departments concerned if public information in regard to the new National Health Service now rapidly approaching its "appointed day" is not as complete and as accurate as could be wished. Ministers ...
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This week's lookey likey
Initially a suggestion from a reader who wishes to be identified as being only "from a PCT", this lookey likey strikes us more and more every time we take a look at our health secretary. Alan Johnson and Larry Grayson - separated at birth?
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Keith Pearson on non-executive champions
If I were asked to describe the role of non-executive directors in the NHS succinctly, I could do it in two words - local champions.
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Jenny Rogers on finding the right career
Reading reviews of Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese's film on the Rolling Stones, is fascinating, especially if you spent your most rewarding parent-taunting moments playing the music of such obvious bad boys.
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Hilary Thomas on changing healthcare
The past year has been one of huge transition for me, professionally and personally. I have phased out seeing patients and crossed to the dark side, which has been a stimulating and steep learning curve.
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Helen Bevan on implementing Darzi
What will it take to deliver the recommendations of Lord Darzi's next stage review?
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Simon Jones on changes in Wales
The long-awaited consultation document on the NHS in Wales, catchily titled Proposals to Change the Structure of the NHS in Wales, finally arrived on 2 April.
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Anne Watts on women in the non-executive workplace
It is a familiar complaint that the boards of many British companies and major public institutions are predominantly white, male and middle class.
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Angela Greatley on mental healthcare in prison
Late last month, a Prison Officers’ Association official claimed that prison had become so comfortable that prisoners were no longer trying to escape.
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Michael White on Darzi's plans
How hard it is to get your message across when opinion turns against you, let alone when Prezza, Cherie and Lord Levy are all trying to sell books, as the government has been demonstrating this past week.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on customer service
It may not have escaped your notice that I have moved on from King's College Hospital foundation trust to a new role at University Hospitals of Leicester trust.
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Media Watch: Darzi shake-up
Managers must brace themselves as junior minister Lord Darzi's shake-up is unveiled. 'Ministers are preparing for a summer of protest as residents campaign against proposals that could mean local hospitals losing specialist services to large regional centres,' reported The Daily Telegraph.
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review,May 21 1948On hospitals in the new national health service: “Up to now there has been, perhaps, a tendency for those concerned with the development of the national hospital service to think of it too much as consisting of more or less ...
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Clinical Service Redesign sponsored by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement"We had bottlenecks for almost everything we were trying to provide as a service," says Dr Jon Sussman, consultant neurologist at the Greater Manchester Neuroscience centre, Salford Royal Foundation trust. "Essentially we improved things by teaming up with Salford ...
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Ronny Flynn on long-term illness and poverty
A review of long-term illness, poverty and ethnicity recently published by the Race Equality Foundation identifies the complex, disruptive effects of illness on families and raises a number of concerns.
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Ken Jarrold on the staff survey
The Healthcare Commission will leave a rich legacy, including the remarkable and powerful staff surveys that have given the people of the NHS a voice to which we should listen.