All Health Service Journal articles in 11 January 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient safety in Scotland
The patient safety team at NHS Tayside has won two accolades for progress in improving patient safety.
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News
Stephen Thornton on shared leadership
'Changing people's behaviour when they have been in the same job for years is one of the hardest things to do. Safer patient initiative teams now think less in terms of 'why won't he do that for me?' and more in terms of 'how can I get him to do ...
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Legal briefing: why mental health reforms will create a dual regulatory system
Service providers need to prepare for with changing mental health legislation
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HSJ Knowledge
US best practice on diabetes care
Knowledge gained from a Health Foundation fellowship trip to the US is being brought into play.in Bolton
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HSJ Knowledge
Doncaster PCT: helping incapacity benefit claimants back into work
A new local occupational health service has resulted from a project that focused on incapacity benefit claimants.
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on root causes
How often do we find ourselves in the same old situations at work? Things are not going ideally, we know what is going to happen and, eventually, it does. How often, when we are in these situations, do we step back and analyse why it has happened and how we ...
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Safety changes 'neglected by GPs'
Reforms to improve the quality and safety of NHS care are not hitting home in GP surgeries, says a report from the National Audit Office.It says many GPs have not implemented 'clinical governance' systems found elsewhere in the health service.While the report found that primary care trusts had made substantial ...
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Proper workforce planning needed, says BMA chair
British Medical Association chair James Johnson has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning - or risk wasting millions of pounds of public money.Speaking at the BMA's 'State of the NHS' briefing, Mr Johnson said: 'In 2008 the year-on-year significant rise in additional NHS resources will fall back ...
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War on fraud saves £800m
The Department of Health says that an extra £811m has been saved by tackling fraud in the NHS over the last seven years.The NHS Counter Fraud Service performance statistics for 1999-2006 show that fraud committed by patients has fallen by 55 per cent from £171m in 1998 to £76m in ...
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DoH launches comprehensive IT plan
The Department of Health has launched a comprehensive information management and technology plan. The document provides detailed supplementary guidance for NHS organisations to use when preparing IM&T plans ahead of the deadline of the end of March 2007.The NHS operating framework for 2007-08 identified the need for sustained focus on ...
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More families paying for their own social care
Individuals and families are increasingly having to find and pay for their own care, says the Commission for Social Care Inspection in a report published today.The State of Social Careaims to provide a complete picture of social care for children and adults across the public, voluntary and private sectors.It found ...
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Poultry workers to be protected against flu
The Department of Health is offering flu vaccination this winter to those who work in close contact with poultry.The DoH insisted that the move is a precautionary public health measure and does not mean that workers are at any higher risk of getting flu this winter than usual.It added: 'Nor ...
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Stuart Marples retires
Senior NHS manager Stuart Marples has retired, ending a 40-year career in the health service in England and Wales. Mr Marples' most recent work was with the Welsh Assembly where he was joint head of performance and operations. He will also be remembered as chief executive of the Institute of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Quicker diagnosis makes good timing
Strides towards the 18-week patient pathway have been made in Blackpool, where a trust slashed diagnostic waits. Varya Shaw reports
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Live and direct: cutting waiting times
HSJ's Sutton Coldfield GM Live event proved an excellent platform for sharing successful service redesign strategies
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Legal briefing: the hidden implications of face transplants
With the stage set for the world's first full facial transplant, Ben Troke examines some of the complex legal and ethical issues that surround the procedure
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Gateshead Health foundation trust: safety check on blood
Mismatching blood in transfusion operations can be deadly. So when a national audit revealed some worrying gaps in safety measures, Gateshead Health foundation trust was quick to respond