All Health Service Journal articles in 27 March 2008
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A suggested coat of arms for Sir Robert Naylor
Many thanks for your suggestions for a coat of arms for the newly knighted Sir Robert Naylor. Here is the first to be published, from a reader who pleads anonymity because he works for a firm that is currently trying to win business from Sir Robert's trust. With a motto ...
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
March 12, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review"On the initiative of the County Borough Council, an extremely well attended public meeting was held in the Town Hall and unanimously decided to found the Dudley Voluntary Children’s Care Society. This society, believed to be unique in character, is ...
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Agency workers: who is in charge around here?
A recent court case brought by an agency worker highlighted the need to widen the protection of temporary employees. Stuart Jones investigates
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Spot the difference in this week's lookey likey
Whever End Game gets sent a lookey likey for a pop star -asMartin Graham,forensic services manager at Affinity Healthcare Middleton St George Hospital has this week, suggesting that junior health minister Ben Bradshaw and David Bowie look rather alike - we like to have some fun looking for the artiste's ...
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
March 26, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review Mr Aneurin Bevan, minister of health had recently addressed the annual meeting of theInstituteofAlmoners.Mr Bevan said that it was now “accepted that it was not possible to treat the patient independently of his social background. ‘Social medicine’ – an ...
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David Amos on directing talent
2008 could be the year that the widespread development of talented frontline staff and the spotting of potential senior staff takes centre stage in the NHS.
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Lisa Rodrigues on how it feels to become a foundation trust
Working for foundation status is like growing up - you learn from personal experience
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Round table - clinical priorities: a dose of realism
Wonder drugs will play a part in transforming healthcare - but a roundtable of experts brought together by HSJ and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said implementing best practice could be even more important. Alexis Nolan reports
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Coaching: ready to speak out
Dorothy Larios continues our coaching series with a look at how she worked with a hospital-based commissioner
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Developing inter-organisational governance
Effective governance between partner organisations is essential to safeguard each party's reputation, say Bryan Stoten and colleagues
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Paul Jennings on football-friendly marketing
Through an ongoing commitment to social marketing in health, we have been looking for ways that newer technologies could work for us in delivering messages to target groups.
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LIFT Awards 2008: building healthier communities
The first annual LIFT Awards celebrated an initiative that makes a real difference to the health and well-being of communities.
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Alison Irving on life after the health service
A long, fulfilling career in the NHS can prepare you for things you never thought possible, as one former manager explains
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Tim Straughan on improving NHS data collection
The 2008-09 NHS operating framework is clearly a catalyst for improving healthcare provision through better data collection and use.
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Obesity drugs: a growing issue?
More than 1 million NHS prescription items were dispensed to treat obesity in England in 2006 - eight times the number dispensed in 1999 - according to a compendium of statistics on obesity, physical activity and diet published by the Information Centre for health and social care.
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After the smoking ban: early conclusions
Early conclusions about the impact of the smoking ban since its introduction in England in July 2007 can be drawn from an Information Centre report into NHS stop-smoking services.
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Care as a career: raising the public perception
The public's view of caring as a profession is often negative, but this can be changed by bringing people closer to the realities of this work at its best, argues Helen Joy
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Recipes for organisational success
High-performing organisations - inside and outside the NHS - have a number of management techniques in common, explains Paul Allen
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Huge variation in GP practice pay regardless of size of list
Figures obtained by HSJ reveal the extent to which the national GP contract has driven inequity across the country, with huge variations in payments to practices, regardless of the number and need of their patients.
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Department to spend £600,000 on choice publicity drive
The Department of Health is to push ahead with the development of clinical quality measures to help patients decide where they want to be treated.