External contributors – Page 274
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David Peat on promoting healthy lifestyles
We all know we should eat less, exercise more, stop smoking and drink less alcohol. But we all ask: where is the fun in that?
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Awards preview
Mental Health Innovation sponsored by Mental Health Strategies"We entered the HSJ awards because we thought it was a good chance to showcase something innovative and different," says Paul Sheffield, service manager with the winning team behind Oxfordshire’s integrated primary children’s mental health service.What Mr Sheffield and his colleagues might not ...
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Simon Stevens on value for money in the NHS
What is the biggest black box in the NHS? By which I mean, where is the worst ratio of cash to clarity about what taxpayers are getting for their money?
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Ros Levenson on recruiting non-executives
After 10 years as a non-executive director of my local NHS trust, including six years as deputy chair, I felt tuned-in to what local people wanted from their hospital. But looking back on the experience, it is interesting to reflect that if I were applying now, rather than a decade ...
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Your Humble Servant on getting to grips with nurses
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRE: Go with the Flo
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Michael White on NICE decisions
Did you hear Ian Gibson, left wing MP for Norwich North, giving Gordon Brown a piece of his mind in the wake of Labour's disastrous performance in the local elections?
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Aleix Bacardit on palliative care and place of death
The publication of the cancer reform strategy is a sign of the government's commitment to developing world class cancer services, but questions remain over using place of death to inform management decisions.
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A Royal All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, May 14 1948Princess Elizabeth, opening [an] exhibition which marks the centenary of the passing of the first Public Health Act, said that a century of steady progress, due to wise Acts of Parliament, to the increase of knowledge and to public enlightenment, ...
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This week's lookey likey
Readers may recall that End Game is a big fan of '80s pop references appearing on this page and here is another one for you. We think that acting joint director of NHS Employers Sian Thomas and Toyah Wilcox look rather alike (without the need for Sian to have plastic ...
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David Amos on workforce planning
A clip on YouTube called Shifthappens broadcasts statistical evidence to demonstrate that the human race is experiencing a world of exponential growth. NHS workforce planners should take note.
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David Lee on mental health heroes
As every good HSJ reader knows, good management is not about heroics or donning a Superman costume. Good management in mental health is about supporting local innovation and frontline service improvements.
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Neil Goodwin on academic health science centres
A quiet revolution due to take place across university hospitals will fundamentally change the relationship between doctors and managers in the NHS.
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Angela Greatley on mental health at work
It may not always be apparent to all of the 1 million plus staff of the NHS, but being in employment is a major determinant of good health.
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Paul Stanton on the challenge of NHS governance
Governing an NHS trust is one of the most challenging tasks I have encountered in a working life that has spanned private industry, local government, the voluntary sector, universities and the European Union.
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How should boards approach safety and quality?
Patient safety and quality of care are important areas for the government and are quite rightly top priorities. Delivering them will be the responsibility of NHS trust boards, writes Robina Shah
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Ingrid Torjesen on circumventing primary care
My skiing holiday in France was meant to be a relaxing break from health and health policy. But my hopes were dashed when on the third day I fell and heard a crack in my knee.
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Media Watch: nurses' paperwork
Research suggesting nurses are drowning in paperwork generated a deluge of angry comment. 'The managers who preside over this shambles have blood on their hands,' screamed the News of the World.
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Michael White on health policy attacks
In the run-up to the local elections, not to mention the Royal College of Nursing's conference, the government took a fearsome bombardment on the health front.
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Jon Restell on information overload
Outsiders in their first few months in the NHS as, say, non-executive directors, are often aghast at the vast amount of information reporting that is required.
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, May 7 1948“There are now only two months left before the appointed day [when the National Assistance Bill would become law]. Much has now been done in the way of preparation since the introduction of the National Assistance Bill, but there are ...