All Health Service Journal articles in 22 January 2009
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
Leaked memo reveals DH frustration over mixed-sex wards
A leaked memo written by a strategic health authority chairman has revealed health secretary Alan Johnson’s deep frustrations that New Labour’s 1997 manifesto pledge to scrap mixed-sex accommodation has not been met.
-
News
Two NHS trusts rapped for patient data loss
Two trusts have been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for losing and failing to secure information about patients.
-
News
NHS trusts 'complacent' about European working time directive
NHS trusts are 'complacent' about making the changes needed to comply with the European working time directive, doctors' leaders are claiming.
-
News
More consultant paediatricians needed
An extra 3,000 consultant paediatricians are needed to deliver the safest possible service to children and their families, a Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report warns.
-
Comment
Noel Plumridge on security under threat
'What I'd really like for 2009,' said my friend Kate, 'is a man with an enormous pension.'
-
Comment
Media Watch: social marketing
The NHS is in the middle of a social marketing drive the like of which has never been seen before.
-
News
Middle managers warned not to shun private sector
Senior NHS managers are no longer opposed to private sector involvement in the health service, but their juniors often are, according to the NHS Confederation.
-
Comment
Michael White on the NHS and vested interests
I always have mixed feelings on reading that some grand professional body like the Law Society or the British Medical Association is moved to condemn a new government policy as unwise or unclear, and sometimes downright dangerous.
-
News
Service redesign key to survival of local hospitals
A radical redesign of services could be essential for small local hospitals' survival.
-
Comment
Your Humble Servant on the NHS operating framework
‘Baldrick, please, when it’s just us, you can call me Minister’
-
Comment
Health inequalities in learning disabilities
Essential changes to learning disabilities services will have knock-on benefits for many other patients, who will gain from better approaches to communication and delivery
-
News
NHS leaders told to spend a day a week nurturing talent
Chief executives are being told to spend the equivalent of a day a week developing future leaders.
-
News
NHS Confederation slates inequality duty
Government plans to make it a duty for the health service to tackle inequalities will result in meaningless bureaucracy, the NHS Confederation is warning.
-
News
NHS constitution sets managers a challenge
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has unveiled the NHS constitution, bringing together the rights and responsibilities of NHS patients and staff for the first time ever.What difference will the NHS Constitution make to the way your organisation is run? Click on Post your response at the end of the story ...
-
News
Care Quality Commission could make SHAs redundant
The NHS Confederation has called for a major rethink of strategic health authorities' roles in light of the new regulatory regime.
-
News
Low carbon NHS commissioning is the green ideal
Home working, green travel and low carbon commissioning are set to feature in the NHS's first ever carbon reduction strategy.
-
News
Managers call for GP commissioning reforms
NHS managers are showing signs of breaking with government policy by calling for a complete overhaul of practice based commissioning.
-
Leader
Council must echo rousing call to next generation of leaders
'If ever there was a moment for leadership in the public sector, this is it.' This statement, which sounds like a politician's soundbite, was in fact from Mark Goldman, chief executive of Heart of England foundation trust.
-
Leader
Maternity matters: stop passing the buck
The commitments made in Maternity Matters are due to be met by the end of the year.
-
News
Elected health boards a step closer in Scotland
Direct elections to health boards in Scotland came a step closer last week when the Scottish government's proposals passed a significant hurdle.