All Policy articles – Page 223
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Meldrum urges doctors to take leading role in reform
Doctors must 'roll up their sleeves' and get involved in Lord Darzi's healthcare reforms or risk being marginalised, irrelevant and ignored, according to the British Medical Association chairman.
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Darzi drives doctors to scale the dizzy heights
The next stage review makes a priority of getting more clinicians into leadership roles. Alison Moore explores the implications of the workforce strategy for clinical professionals
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Simon Stevens on a good year for Darzi
As wine experts will occasionally admit, it's hard to know how a new vintage will perform. Wines age, maturation takes time. And a decent bottle may be overshadowed by a later blockbuster year.
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Strategy will knit up the ravelled sleeve of care
Traditional institutional boundaries must be crossed and existing work patterns challenged before the elements of the NHS can come together to create care that fits patients perfectly
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Darzi calls for skills to tackle challenge of lifestyle diseases
Primary and community care organisations must strengthen their skills and infrastructure to tackle 'lifestyle diseases' such as obesity, Lord Darzi told an HSJ conference this week.
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Euro providers could claim place on choose and book
European health providers could launch claims to be included in GP choose and book systems to give them the same access to the NHS market as those in the UK.
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Natalie Lambert on respecting research
Most applied health and social sciences research is rightly directed at identifying the most cost-effective interventions for specific diseases and risks.
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Aligning health and local government incentives
In the North West, health services and local government work in perfect alignment. What is the secret of their success?
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The next steps in reducing inequality
The government is determined to reduce health inequalities by 2010, but this requires a concerted effort from all local agencies in the human workshop.
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Dame Carol Black on clinical responsibility
My interest in the changes in the NHS workforce has mostly focused on frontline staff - participants in the millions of clinical encounters that are at the heart of the service.
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Recruitment questions: overseas staff in the NHS
A few years ago, the service was in the spotlight for plugging staffing gaps with overseas workers. Now restrictions have been imposed as vacancies evaporate. Is the NHS right to aim for a 'self-sufficient' workforce?
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David Peat on 60 years with the NHS
Call it a fortuitous coincidence if you will, but the NHS and I share the same birthday. Not to the day, but near enough.
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Health ministers affirm commitment to NHS principles
The four UK health ministers have issued a joint statement on the core principles of the NHS.
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Partnership is key to delivering Lord Darzi’s NHS vision
Lord Darzi’s Final Report High Quality Care for All puts quality at the heart of the NHS. His vision can only be achieved on the required scale through new forms of partnership between public, private and third sectors.For healthcare providers, there are some exciting incentives to encourage new service models:As ...
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Campaign to tackle mental health inequalities
The Royal College of Psychiatrists had launched a three-year campaign to tackle inequalities in mental health.
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Alan Johnson on narrowing the gaps in health equality
Health inequalities blight our communities. It is unacceptable that in the first decade of the 21st century, the length of a person's life is still determined by where they were born and their social status.
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Lessons in success: delivering on health inequalities
Three leaders who are tackling inequalities in deprived areas explain why their initiatives are working
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Adding value with national support
The aim of national support teams is to reflect back the work of trusts and local authorities and to support change, as director Cathy Hamlyn told HSJ
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Future NHS: the heat is on
As the population changes, the web transforms our relationship with information, medicines emerge to suit individuals' genomes and the planet warms, the NHS faces momentous challenges. By Daloni Carlisle
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Hospitals may lose out in plan to make funds follow student
The shake-up of education and funding for training proposed by Lord Darzi could have a 'major destabilising impact' on established teaching hospitals.