All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-06-15
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Heaven can wait
Innovation? Give us more. Grand plan? Let's start tomorrow. The New Health Network conference was painfully on-message. Maura Thompson was there
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Members of the Oxfordshire inter-trust recruitment and retention group
Sharon Barrington Head of physiotherapy services, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Debbie Christian Professional development nurse, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre June Davies Chief dietitian, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Nettie Dearmun Principal lecturer/senior nurse, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals/Oxford Brookes University Anona Glithero Senior nurse, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Claire Grout Continuing professional development pharmacist, Berkshire & Oxfordshire ...
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Seams good to us
Could the roles of hospital specialists and GPs be adapted to provide closer integration, better patient care and decreased waiting times? James Ward and Romesh Gupta report
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Going into labour
One of the authors of a major report on birth statistics has criticised the government's new systems for collecting health data. Janet Snell finds out why co-ordinating national health statistics is not child's play
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Two into one will go
Chief executives have been told that health secretary Alan Milburn has decided on a radical shake-up at the very top of the NHS. He is to appoint just one person to fill the shoes of both departing NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands and Department of Health permanent secretary Chris ...
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The gentle touch
Introducing palliative care Third Edition By Robert Twycross Radcliffe Medical Press 200 pages £18.85
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Favourite is service outsider
The next leader of the NHS could be a senior civil servant or leading industrialist, according to Whitehall insiders.
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Moving on: Kelly's farewell message
Departing permanent secretary Chris Kelly joined the civil service from Trinity College, Cambridge and Manchester University. He spent 25 years at the Treasury, moving to the Department of Health in 1997, following a short period at the Department of Social Security.
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Too many facts, too few words
Producing patient information is fraught with pitfalls. Updating a number of factsheets fell to me over a recent wet bank holiday weekend. By Monday evening my mind was reeling from trying to achieve a balance between plain English, political correctness, evidence-based factual accuracy and being neither simplistic and condescending on ...
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'I'm getting some interference': the voice of experience
Victor Paige was the first chair of the NHS management board in 1984, which later became the NHS Executive. He resigned less than two years later.
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No end to the production line
Health minister John Denham was spared the embarrassment of a slow handclap at the British Association of Medical Managers' conference, but the drive for reform has stirred up dissension among the ranks. Alison Moore reports
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Grief encounter
When Helen Easton's teenage son was dying from cancer, she felt isolated in her suffering. Now she is setting up a project to help others in similar circumstances
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Early-warning plan will target failures
An early-warning system to deal with all clinical mistakes in the NHS will be set up by the end of the year.
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Double trouble: this week's role of shame
The Commission for Health Improvement has been called in to investigate four trusts which employed a locum pathologist who misdiagnosed more than 200 cancer patients.