All Policy articles – Page 229
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News
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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News
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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Comment
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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News
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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Comment
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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News
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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News
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.
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Comment
Media Watch: response to Darzi
If Lord Darzi reads his press he will be basking and bawling in equal measure.
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Comment
Michael White on Darzi politics
Even before the saintly Lord Darzi uttered the first sentence of his latest report, or Henley had even voted, the Cameroon Conservatives had got their NHS retaliation in first.
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News
Conservatives will support parts of Darzi review
The Conservatives have welcomed parts of the Darzi review, saying they will support proposals that chime with their policies.
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Leader
Darzi review will be a success when it causes managers grief
Lord Darzi’s next stage review has been met with a remarkable degree of support. The few critics have failed to shoot any substantial holes in it.