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Michael White: inside Gordon Brown's mind
Are ministers in Alan Johnson’s health team now finding their feet in their new jobs after a lacklustre start? Are they landing a few blows on the other side too despite renewed talk of a broad consensus on the NHS’s future?
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Minority report: shameful race record harms staff and patients
A Healthcare Commission survey has revealed scandalously poor compliance with race equality legislation (for more on the survey, click here).
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Patients are driven to distraction by parking fees
Are hospital car park charges becoming a tax on patients and carers?
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Sophie Christie on the holy grail of NHS policy
NHS policy seems populated by some remarkably persistent ideas that pop up every decade or so
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Patient safety action teams - putting safety first
Patient safety action teams are now helping make safety part of the mainstream NHS in all 10 strategic health authorities. Martin Fletcher explains their work
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NHS maternity services - the real story
Regarding Simon Stevens' opinion piece, it is good to see a debate on maternity services in HSJ, writes Karlene Davis
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Over-analysis risks crushing staff motivation
I thoroughly endorse Stephen Ramsden's transformational approach to patient safety. However, I believe we could go even further by saying this is exactly what is missing in many other aspects of patient services and, indeed, more generally across the public sector, writes Sue Ward
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Weird world health
What do you think the effects of having half a brain would be? A below average mental capacity seems the obvious answer. But a 39 year old woman who went to hospital in China and was discovered to only have grey matter on the right side of her brain had ...
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Looky likey
General manager at Classic Hospitals' Elland and Methley Park Hospitals Chris Harrison writes to say that while leafing through some recent issues of HSJ he briefly thought he was reading All About Soaps magazine. 'NHS Choices project lead and DoH chief information officer Beverley Bryant looks rather like (long standing ...
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All Our Yesterdays
November 28, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewThe tale of how to treat gastric and duodenal ulcers continues. Aftercare was described. Some patients were advised to carry with them a mixture consisting of cream, milk water and sodium citrate and drink a glassful 'every two hours throughout ...
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Hilary Thomas on clarifying the NHS insurer-provider divide
Separating the NHS’s purchaser and provider functions more clearly would help everyone who works in the service focus unambiguously on their purpose
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Stephen Ramsden on the transformational approach to patient safety
To make real strides in patient safety, we must win the hearts and minds of NHS staff and patients, mobilising them to be drivers of change
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Mark Britnell on world class commissioning
PCTs are not obliged to use this framework - it is simply there to help them if they need it
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Emma Dent on hospital phobia
HSJ Towers has recently been swelled with the arrival of many other magazines published by our parent company - previously we were scattered in offices across London.
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinician-led management
Why don't we accept the need for inspiring leaders, wherever they come from?
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Give heart and soul for organ donation
With managers relentlessly focused on keeping patients alive, they could be forgiven for taking their eye off the ball once someone is dead. But, as so often, there is still one more thing to do.
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Michael White on Gordon Brown's health policy
Some well-meaning MPs think that Gordon Brown's government is deliberately taking the spotlight off the NHS to give it breathing space to recover from years of political battering.
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Media Watch: waiting times
If the Department of Health hoped for some good press on the latest waiting times, then it should have known better.
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Local blueprint for primary care revolution kickstarts GP reform
Heart of Birmingham primary care trust has placed itself in the vanguard of the drive to modernise primary care.
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To George Jenkins, interim chair of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Having been in place for only a short time, it will no doubt be apparent to you and Glen Douglas, your interim chief executive, that you have taken on a tough job.