All Health Service Journal articles in 17 July 2008
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Comment
Paul Jennings on social marketing
Walsall Teaching primary care trust was one of the first organisations to deploy health trainers to give one-to-one support to people with health problems.
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Comment
Robina Shah on speaking Darzi's language
Nelson Mandela once said: 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.'
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HSJ Knowledge
More of the NHS's top people
I think you missed out some key people from your Diamond Sixty list. For instance national cancer director Mike Richards, for delivering the cancer plan and developing the cancer reform strategy. He encourages a bottom-up approach and listens to patients and staff.
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News
Massive variation in Ritalin prescribing
There is a 23-fold difference in the rate at which children in different parts of England are prescribed Ritalin to control their behaviour, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
Jon Restell on praise for the NHS
I am writing this column soft-eyed at the close of the busy next stage review/NHS 60th anniversary week, with Nye Bevan staring exhortation at me from my desk calendar.
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News
Interim management notes
As an ex-interim manager for primary care trusts and the Department of Health, I would like to comment on Paul Fleming's article.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant takes a look at Tory targets
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Outcomes, schmoutcomes
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Comment
Media Watch: GP ratings
There's a new hot topic for the hospital water cooler - a website that allows patients to rate doctors just like a book they've ordered from Amazon.
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News
Trust says go-it-alone plan is reinforced by IT review
The chief executive of a foundation trust installing IT outside the national programme has said its actions are validated by last week's informatics review.
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News
Public health gets lift from social marketing
The Department of Health is to boost access to public health training and population profiling tools to help embed social marketing principles in health improvement work.
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News
Happy staff equal happy patients
Healthcare organisations with happy staff are more likely to have satisfied patients, the Healthcare Commission has revealed.
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Comment
Michael White on rating doctors
As the government winds down towards what it hopes will be a welcome summer break (don’t bank on it), it’s been home secretary Jacqui Smith’s week.
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News
Lawyers fire warning shot at doctor ratings website
The founder of a website that allows the public to post comments on doctors has insisted he has safeguards to prevent publication of defamatory allegations.
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News
Non-urgent phone number debate
Ambulance Service Association director Liz Kendall is right when she suggests a non-urgent phone number to sit alongside 999 is necessary. Like her organisation, we also think a single number for urgent care is needed.
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News
Trusts stare published death rates in the face
Hospital public relations departments have given the Department of Health a mixed review after it published mortality rates for four kinds of operation last week.
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News
Councils warn over planned PCT merger
Council leaders have attacked proposals by NHS London to merge primary care trust commissioning functions in the capital.
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News
Data shortfalls hinder world class commissioning efforts
Primary care trust managers have warned that poor data is preventing them making progress on world class commissioning.PCTs told HSJ they felt they had no choice but to commission outside firms for 'social marketing' research on the health needs of their local population. Others said they thought data on services ...
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Leader
The size of the mountain PCTs must climb is becoming clear
With only a few months to go before primary care trusts have to submit their strategic plans, the scale of the world class commissioning challenge is becoming clear.
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HSJ Knowledge
Drifting apart: why health inequalities are getting bigger
Is it fair to expect the NHS alone to stop health inequalities widening when they are shaped by so many factors in society - income, housing, education - or is the health service failing in its basic responsibilities?
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News
Chief medical officer's annual report confronts surgical safety
Survival rates 30 days after surgery should be analysed and made public, the chief medical officer has demanded.