All Health Service Journal articles in 18 September 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Preventing NHS data security slip-ups
Simplifying the way users log on to computer networks can help NHS organisations increase their efficiency and improve compliance with data security requirements. Nick Lamidey explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Promoting patient choice in end of life care
A partnership between a foundation trust and a PCT has been tackling an integral part of care planning by asking patients how they wish to be cared for as they approach the end of their life
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Comment
Sandy Watson on bringing young people to the NHS table
Any talk of engaging with the community and involving patients in shaping healthcare cannot ignore the needs and influence of its youngest citizens.
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Blogs
Health volunteers gotta go with the flow
Working for the Swazi government, one of the first things you learn is flexibility. Meetings are often arranged at very short notice, particularly when donors fly into town.
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News
Top-up payments are a lottery
I would like to thank HSJ for its coverage on top-up payments. The final decision will have huge implications for the health service. If top-ups were allowed, this would enable patients who can afford it to get rapid access to interventions that would not be normally available to all in ...
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News
NHS trusts to plan local workforce
NHS London has pledged to put trust managers in charge of workforce planning after a power struggle sparked by the next stage review.
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HSJ Knowledge
Healthcare providers respond to public reporting
In the wake of health minister Lord Darzi's push for quality measurement as a driver for change, there is already renewed interest in public reporting.
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News
Mental health lacks national vision
Mental health plans arising from the next stage review lack ambition and risk being 'lost' as the service focuses on other sectors, managers are warning.
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Comment
Media Watch: NHS in the headlines
Headlines have been lent an oddly cinematic quality this week. In the horror category, Gordon Brown faced the 'revenge of the Blair Babes', according to The People. The Observer moved into gangster territory, imploring the prime minister to 'call off your mafioso aides'.
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News
Moyes warns: invest in governance
Foundation trusts have been warned they are not investing enough time or money in memberships and boards of governors. The Department of Health may reassert its control if an organisations cannot prove it is locally accountable, said Bill Moyes, executive chairman of regulator Monitor.
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News
Patients to get final say on who sees NHS records
NHS Connecting for Health has bowed to sustained pressure and changed its consent model for the summary care record.
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News
Learning disability housing plans at risk
The pledge to shut all 'outmoded' NHS homes for adults with learning disabilities by 2010 is at risk, HSJ has learnt. Poor quality local proposals have been blamed for slow progress on the commitment.
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News
Emma Dent is humbled by medical ingenuity
It may have come to your attention that I have something of a cynical nature. And unfortunately writing about health policy has done little to stem that. But when someone acts in a truly humane way to help those worse off than them, even I can stop being world-weary long ...
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News
Lib Dems unveil plan to slash NHS managers' pay
Senior health managers should be forced to reapply for jobs and take pay cuts as part of a public sector cost-cutting drive, the Liberal Democrats proposed at their annual conference in Bournemouth this week.
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Comment
Michael White on the Liberal Democrats' conference
Apart from Norman Lamb's platform speech and a short midweek debate on the urgent needs of mental health, the health service wasn't very prominent on the Liberal Democrats' conference agenda in Bournemouth.
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News
Prescription drug marketing comes under debate
Organisations representing patients, medical professionals and consumers are calling on the European Commission to rethink proposals to allow drug companies to provide information direct to consumers.
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News
Stroke services improving - Royal College of Physicians
Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown. The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds.
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News
Northwick Park Hospital cleared over maternity deaths
An investigation into maternal deaths at Northwick Park Hospital has found the trust innocent of any wrongdoing.
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News
Sophia Christie on management lessons from literature
While the 1980s saw an explosion of books promising 'the management secrets of...', War and Peace seems to have been sadly neglected. But Tolstoy's commentary is instructive in the context of current discussions about the next stage review.