All Health Service Journal articles in 14 August 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Promoting public health in the acute sector
Hospitals in England are expected to perform a public health function for the communities they serve. Abraham George and colleagues explain how hospitals can increase their capacity to do so
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HSJ Knowledge
Freedom of information vs data protection
The House of Lords has recently ruled on the balance to be struck between freedom of information and the protection of personal data. Emma Di Giacomo explains
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Comment
Keith Pearson on the NHS constitution
The constitution is an opportunity to put to bed the tired old arguments dogging the NHS and will underpin the values and principles at its core. Non-executive directors are the ideal champions for this cause
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HSJ Knowledge
Delivering 18 weeks: the steps to success
Meeting the December 18-week referral to treatment target will be a challenge for many hospitals, especially those that missed the March milestone. Heather Lawrence, Kieran Brett and Michael Macdonnell explain how Chelsea and Westminster foundation trust hit the target nine months early
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Comment
Michael White on relatonships with the media
A grizzled ex-minister, just back from an evidently refreshing holiday, was muttering the other day about what he calls the 'BBC mindset', by which he means all of us in the inky-fingered media trades.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stroke strategy: how are we doing?
The national stroke strategy, which launched in December 2007, aimed to improve services for those who suffer stroke and to intervene early to prevent stroke.
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Comment
Media Watch: rats in hospitals
It was no great surprise that the papers went wild for the Tories' freedom of information 'revelation' that our hospitals are overrun with 'vermin'.
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News
Spring surge in GP referrals leaves managers mystified
Referrals by GPs shot up in spring - putting extra pressure on trusts battling with December's 18-week referral to treatment target.
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News
Fighting fraud
Jon Restell, chief executive of Managers in Partnership, raises concern about the sometimes ambiguous terms of reference used by the NHS Counter Fraud Service, and questions whether such matters should be dealt with by auditors.
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News
Ethnic minority patients and staff
There's something that worries me about the wording of your comment on discrimination. You state: 'If [the NHS] cannot treat its own employees fairly it has no hope of providing ethnic minority patients with the service they have a right to receive'.
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News
Welfare reforms and drug treatment
You ask what the government's welfare reforms mean for the health service. You assert that the government intends to force drug users into treatment. You highlight a claim from Mental Health Foundation chief executive Andrew McCulloch that the NHS is not offering people drug treatment.
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News
PCT 'dragons' hunt fresh ideas
Primary care trusts are attempting to spice up public health and recruitment initiatives by copying popular TV programmes.
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Leader
Young promises new regime will deliver speed and independence
The language used by the chair of the Care Quality Commission in her interview with HSJ was typically clear, robust and ambitious.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant on Chinese whispers
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul ServantRe: Chinese whispers
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News
Children on methylphenidate
Could HSJ sound less like a tabloid and more like a professional paper with some clarity of concept and message?
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News
IT may change funding plans
A new IT system could pave the way for a substantial change in the way primary care trusts and GPs are funded, HSJ has been told.
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Leader
Carbon emmissions need central steering
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, it is difficult to conceive of an industry that faces a more complex challenge than the health service.
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News
Guilty by emission as carbon cuts loom large
The NHS emits a million tonnes of carbon a year, but it must cut this figure drastically. Helen Crump asks whether trusts are giving this issue the priority it requires and highlights some innovative ideas.
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News
Cornwall cancer treatment centralisation plans
Your comment on our proposals to relocate upper gastrointestinal cancer surgical services to improve clinical outcomes was very perceptive in setting out the challenges we face.
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News
Disgusted by Cornwall cancer conflict
I read with disgust your comments on the planned removal of cancer services from Cornwall to Plymouth.