All Health Service Journal articles in 16 October 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Making lean thinking work in the NHS
To be successful, lean principles have to inform everything an NHS organisation does. Here, the chief executive of Royal Bolton Hospital foundation trust explains how he and his staff are putting this into practice
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HSJ Knowledge
Focusing on health inequalities
Bristol primary care trust is using an enhanced equality impact assessment to reduce health inequalities by transforming the way it allocates funds
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HSJ Knowledge
Charities and the NHS private finance conundrum
Should NHS organisations set up charities to help them run PFI projects? Ted Powell examines the legal issues involved
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HSJ Knowledge
Advice for PCTs on managing provider arms
Managing PCT provider arms is not a straightforward matter, as Jeremy Roper explains
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News
NHS Alliance rallying cry for social enterprise
The NHS Alliance has begun its annual conference in Bournemouth with a call to arms for the social enterprise movement.
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News
Politicians are poor persuaders
Interesting to see Simon Stevens' comments on the science of persuasion. Clearly our politicians have much to teach us about how to motivate the public - as demonstrated by the general (let alone local) election turnouts. Strange, isn't it, that people who have money, education and access to affordable leisure ...
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News
The quest for the perfect NHS leader
Martin Marshall's analysis of the state of NHS leadership is only partially correct. Much more has been achieved than he gives credit for.
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Blogs
Healthcheckitus
It's that time of the year. The words 'draft' are being lifted from Annual Audit Letters that summarise so succinctly the state of your financial health.
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News
Mental health response was united
You suggest there was a lack of criticism concerning the Today programme's story on secure care.
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News
Financial turbulence threatens NHS reforms
Question over £550m earmarked for next stage reviewConcerns SHAs will be less able to support financially troubled trustsPotential refocusing on capacity over quality and choiceFears national work to define quality measures and legislate on compulsory quality accounts will be neglectedPossible funding problems for social care reforms
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News
Treasury eyes hidden PCT surpluses
Increased demand for health services as recession bitesTwo-year timetable for service reconfiguration and investmentSurpluses vulnerable
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HSJ Knowledge
Widening gap in life expectancy
Inequalities in health are a key concern for health policy in all five countries of the UK and Ireland.
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HSJ Knowledge
Healthcare funding: is there enough to go round?
As new treatments and an ageing population put ever more pressure on health systems across the world, future governments will have to rethink the way that they are funded.
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Comment
Stephen Eames on managing by fear
Up here in the North East the community is still reeling from the collapse of Northern Rock and is now watching with horror the ongoing farcical spectacle that is Newcastle United Football Club.
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News
Develop minor injury/illness services
Research identifies that on average, 75 per cent of attendances at an emergency department are minor. In terms of policy and dynamic action, this majority is ignored. Yet by fully developing the minor injury/illness service, the pressure on emergency departments would be relieved.
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News
Public LINks hit by delays in networking
Public and patient involvement in health and social care has been seriously set back by widespread delay in establishing local involvement networks, a report claims.
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News
Patients' voices in danger of drowning in paperwork
Patients could be put off taking part in NHS outcome measurement by overwhelmingly long questionnaires, market researchers fear.
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Comment
Michael White on the financial crisis
The deepening financial crisis is changing how we look at everything now. For instance, aren't NHS finance directors glad they didn't have surpluses to invest unwisely during the years when Patricia Hewitt's stiletto was on their necks?
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News
Kent council launches NHS complaints helpline
A county council has launched a new service to deal with complaints about the health service.
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Leader
Good times set to end as health pays price for squirrelling cash
The credit crunch is heading your way. While the government has so far rejected the idea of revisiting its health spending plans up to 2011, there are numerous other ways it can get its hands on trust cash.