All Primary care articles – Page 266
-
Comment
Target-driven department is off the mark
'Reforming the DoH to make it an effective and respected department is an important step on the road to rebuilding NHS confidence in the government'
-
News
Mums more depressed in the North
A survey of mothers has found that the further north mums live, the more likely they are to suffer from post-natal depression. The survey, carried out byparenting support and information website Netmums, found that mothers inScotlandand northernEnglandwere significantly more likely to be suffering from pos-tnatal depression than those in the ...
-
Comment
Your Humble Servant: domestic inspection
‘The terror of arbitrary censure and pointless planning is taking its toll’
-
Comment
The public needs reassurance that it is in the safest hands
'Such big jumps need analysis. Are employers becoming more lax in their approach? Or is it just a statistical anomaly?'
-
HSJ Knowledge
Getting to grips with employee absence
Managers need to take decisive steps to tackle high rates of employee absence in the health service, writes Ben Willmott
-
HSJ Knowledge
Adult care joint ventures
The Integrated Care Network's report Adult Care Joint Ventures: aspirations, challenges and options sets out to explore radically alternative models of adult care services commissioning and provision.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Illegal immigrants and the NHS - unfinished business
The NHS's duty to illegal immigrants is no simple matter, as David Lock explains
-
Comment
Carers must be treated with dignity
Lord Darzi has been asked by the health secretary.to review the main challenges facing the NHS, including ensuring that care for people with long-term conditions is joined-up, patient focused, offers best value and is delivered with dignity in the best location for each patient, which for many will be their ...
-
HSJ Knowledge
Public health and service integration
The Role of Public Health in Integrated Services is a 48-page discussion paper that provides an overview of the scope of public health practice. It outlines some of the tools and techniques that might be used in designing and evaluating integrated services, and explains how they might be used as ...
-
HSJ Knowledge
New media - new medicine?
Innovative projects in patient care are making good use of new media, write Shak Gohir and Eve Knight
-
News
Johnson wants competition to prop up poor GP access
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told primary care trusts to use independent sector providers to fill gaps in services. He has also told PCTs to produce local action plans to improve poor access to GP services.
-
News
Fewer targets means more accountability
'The reduction in targets does not mean data collection will be weakened. For example, health inequalities cannot be monitored without understanding smoking cessation, obesity and infant mortality'
-
News
Ministers must win battle on provision to fulfil early promise
'While other parts of the public sector have learned to work with a mixed economy, the NHS still flinches at the idea of private involvement'
-
News
Contract dispute could drive wedge between GPs and PCTs
Moves to change the terms of GP contracts in Suffolk could spark 'ructions' between primary care trusts and GPs across the country.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Safe crackers
Putting patient safety at the heart of NHS services needs a significant cultural shift. HSJ and Microsoft brought together key leaders to ask how to make this happen
-
News
HPA warning on sexual health target
Increasing pressure on sexual health services could undermine progress towards the target of ensuring patients have access to a genito-urinary medicine clinic within 48 hours by 2008.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Activity project leaps obstacles
Barriers to sport and physical activities for children with special health needs are being removed, explains Helen Sugden
-
News
David Lawrence offers some words of advice to Mr Brown
'Yes, Mr Brown, as you well understand, the NHS is a business operation in that it is an input-output system with desired outcomes'
-
HSJ Knowledge
The role of primary care in tackling allergic diseases
The Information Centre for health and social care.has published an analysis of patterns of allergic diseases in patients diagnosed in primary care.