All Health Service Journal articles in 19 June 2008
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1948 and the leap forward in human rights
The year the NHS was launched saw another great landmark: the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The right to healthcare is as basic as they get - but the battle is still not won
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Prison mental health services - jailhouse blues
Faced with huge numbers of mentally ill offenders, London's forensic mental health services are struggling to cope. Rebecca Norris reports
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Sandy Watson on local and national objectives
A new partnership framework has allowed Scotland to set clear objectives and measurement criteria for local authorities, giving the public a clearer idea of what to expect from their health services.
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Increasing productivity in nursing
In a programme that pre-empted the Productive Ward initiative by a year, Ipswich Hospital trust improved its nursing services by changing the ward sister role
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Complying with the acute services contract
A new mandatory contract for acute services is causing concern among commissioners and providers because some feel it places unreasonable demands on trusts. Jeremy Roper explains
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Readers vote for NHS's top people
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the NHS, we asked readers to comment on who they thought had been the most influential people in the history of the service. We will feature some of your ideas over the next few weeks.
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Michael White on specialist trauma response
The other day health minister Ben Bradshaw read out to concerned MPs a list of all the places on the body where young people get pierced these days.
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Media Watch: hygiene targets
News from the Healthcare Commission that one in four hospitals is not hitting hygiene targets was about as welcome as a dose of MRSA.
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Your Humble Servant on saying no
Your humble servantTo: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Saying no
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Foundation says it will use surplus to loosen PFI ties
The chief executive of the foundation trust with the biggest cash surplus has said his organisation will use its £120m to minimise its dependence on the private finance initiative.
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Foundation failures upset Monitor
An increasing number of applications for foundation trust status are being turned down first time round because they are not up to scratch, it has emerged.
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Look to Europe to improve healthcare
Professor Le Grand's assertion in your piece 'Just a Pawn in the Game' that despite being badly served under politicians, the NHS 'would have been worse under any other way of doing it' does not stand up to international scrutiny.
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Data is essential for judging success
Last week's Healthcare Commission and Audit Commission report provides a welcome opportunity to take stock of the progress the government is making with its reforms of the NHS in England.
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Updating top-up rules need not be a dagger to the heart of NHS
Just days before its 60th birthday the NHS is being forced to re-evaluate its founding principle - that treatment is based on clinical need not the ability to pay.
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Corporate manslaughter legislation
In response to 'Academics slam two-tier legislation', the duty of care we owe patients detained under the Mental Health Act should afford them more protection under the law than the rest of the population, not less.
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Top-up review set to question core NHS principles
The 'founding principles of the NHS' are to be revisited after the government launched a review of the ban preventing patients making 'top-up' payments for drugs.
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Choice and competition are not local reality
The important review by the Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission should lead to better recognition of the huge difficulties facing reform. There are very few people in the NHS who see choice and competition as key policies for improving services.
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Confed warns over challenges of innovation
Developments in genetics, regenerative medicine, web technology, surgery and telehealth will challenge the NHS, according to an NHS Confederation report out this week.
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Inquiry into manslaughter case criticises care
An independent inquiry into the treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions about prominent politicians and the royal family has criticised mental health services.
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Primary care leaders needed
The joint Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission report on the progress of reform highlights issues such as commissioning not driving movement of care from hospitals, and wide variation in implementation of reform nationally.