All Health Service Journal articles in 29 May 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
NEDs who guide trusts in crisis
Non-executive directors often have to step into the breach when a trust is in meltdown. But what prompts NEDs to step forward at these times and what can they contribute? Alison Moore reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Understanding the embryology bill
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is an emotive issue for many people and continues to polarise public opinion. Despite widespread media coverage, misconceptions and scaremongering are obfuscating the debate. Ben Troke explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Assessing independent sector performance
A broad survey of data from independent healthcare providers across the UK has revealed the sector's staffing levels, bed spaces and hospital-acquired infection rates. Sally Taber examines the results
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News
Patient records neglect
We are not surprised to learn of the wide disparities between trusts when it comes to the availability of patient records revealed by your investigation, writes Tracy Steadman
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News
NHS sixties memories
Your photos of people who worked in healthcare in the 1950s and 1960s on your NHS60 website (www.nhs60.co.uk) have brought memories flooding back, writes Susan Bethell
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News
SHA releases psychiatric killers' reports
Two reports into psychiatric patients who killed have been released by NHS East of England - more than five years after the incidents.
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News
End of postcode lottery could put PCTs in a spin
The Primary Care Commissioning Network will pool PCTs' expertise to help them make decisions on using new treatments while they wait for NICE guidance. But trusts that choose to ignore the network's advice could find themselves facing a media storm. By Alison Moore
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News
Fuel disaster looming
Your news analysis on rising fuel prices and its impact on hospitals was timely but it only scratched the surface, writes Stuart Jeffery
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News
Emma Dent on GPs and drinking habits
So I registered with a new GP. Once I had finally found one it was a pleasantly pain-free experience.
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Comment
Michael White on dementia services
Being in government is a bit like fighting forest fires, the kind that sweep through tinder-dry acres in countries a lot hotter than ours.
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News
Independent sector still struggling on data
The independent sector is still struggling to provide good quality data on its NHS activities, the NHS Information Centre has revealed.
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News
Darzi review: North East sets targets for 'region of paradox'
Eight-month targets designed to eliminate health service 'paradoxes' are the cornerstone of NHS North East's Darzi vision.
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News
Safer culture is taking root
Your cover story identified a disparity between where NHS staff and leaders feel patient safety is on boards' priorities, writes Martin Fletcher
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News
Share rising mental health costs, says King's Fund
The cost of mental health services is expected to rise by 45 per cent over the next 20 years, the King’s Fund has predicted.But in its long-awaited report on the future funding of mental health services, it says the NHS should not be expected to fund the increased cost alone.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on world class organisations
The assurance process for world class commissioning is developing apace but with no national development programme, many in primary care trusts are wondering where to focus attention.
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News
Councils could lose social care funds to DWP
Local councils could be stripped of their control over the 7bn adult social care budget under proposals being explored for the forthcoming social care green paper.
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Leader
Vulnerable people's fate must not fall to faceless bureaucracy
Health secretary Alan Johnson has called for a 'national debate' on how we will meet the needs and costs of an ageing population.
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News
Bruce Keogh speaks at Patient Safety Congress
Managers are still treating patient safety as 'subordinate' to money despite the health service's £1.8bn underspend, according to the NHS medical director.
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News
BMA muddled over polyclinics
Our independent patient-interest social enterprise has consultated on the complex issue of GPs and polyclinics. The British Medical Association's campaign to persuade patients to oppose them is ill-judged and muddled, writes Elizabeth Manero
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News
BMA pay hypocrisy
The hypocrisy of the British Medical Association's contrasting pay policy for staff and doctors is no surprise, writes Joyce Robins