All Health Service Journal articles in 15 November 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Supporting diabetes self-management
More than 2 million people in theUKare known to have diabetes and it is estimated that a further 750,000 have the disease without being aware of it. Two Co-creating Health teams inLondonare working to improve self-management support for people with the disease.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: patient confidentiality beyond the grave
Amelia Newbold examines a recent legal landmark protecting the duty of confidentiality between doctor and patient beyond a patient's death
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Comment
Stephen Ramsden on the transformational approach to patient safety
To make real strides in patient safety, we must win the hearts and minds of NHS staff and patients, mobilising them to be drivers of change
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Comment
Media Watch: waiting times
If the Department of Health hoped for some good press on the latest waiting times, then it should have known better.
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News
In this week's HSJ
NewsBanks have threatened to hike up the interest rates they charge foundation trusts in the absence of a guarantee that the government will underwrite their debts.Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare ...
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News
PCTs to be primed for greater NICE input
Primary care trusts will have a bigger say over the way new drugs are used under plans being drawn up this winter.
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Comment
Give heart and soul for organ donation
With managers relentlessly focused on keeping patients alive, they could be forgiven for taking their eye off the ball once someone is dead. But, as so often, there is still one more thing to do.
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Comment
Emma Dent on hospital phobia
HSJ Towers has recently been swelled with the arrival of many other magazines published by our parent company - previously we were scattered in offices across London.
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News
Doctors demand 'revolution' to increase part-time posts
The NHS will need to undergo a 'cultural revolution' if the government gives millions more parents the right to work part-time, doctors have warned.
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News
PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze
District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury
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News
MP demands severance deal figure
A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.
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News
ISTC second wave faces cuts
The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.
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HSJ Knowledge
Can a constitution seal the health service's freedom?
Lord Darzi's interim report last month brought the government a step closer to drawing up an NHS constitution. The challenge, writes Liz Kendall, is to bind the service without restraining it
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News
DoH considering 'tolerance levels' on waiting-time target
Trusts have welcomed plans to allow leeway on the government's flagship 18-week waiting-time target as proof that the NHS has 'grown up'.
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinician-led management
Why don't we accept the need for inspiring leaders, wherever they come from?
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News
Franchise plan for primary care draws fire from GPs
A primary care trust is planning an innovative strategy to franchise out 'branded' primary care centres.
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News
Call to reward patients using cheaper care
NHS patients should be given financial incentives to choose the most cost-efficient providers or treatments, a leading US academic has told officials.
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News
Infection control: C difficile measures improve at Stoke Mandeville
Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare Commission. But the regulator highlighted doctors' poor hand hygiene as a serious concern in a follow-up report published today.
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Comment
Michael White on Gordon Brown's health policy
Some well-meaning MPs think that Gordon Brown's government is deliberately taking the spotlight off the NHS to give it breathing space to recover from years of political battering.
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News
Plea to trust bosses to boost organ donation
The head of the NHS transplant agency has called on trust managers to play a greater role in boosting organ donation and improving transplant services.