All Health Service Journal articles in 4 October 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Public consultation: knowing your obligations
Confusion often arises over NHS bodies' consultation obligations, but upcoming legislation makes it ever more important to get these right, says Trevor Blythe
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Comment
David Praill on access to pain relief
According to our report Access to Pain Relief – an essential human right, published this week to mark World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on 6 October, 80 per cent of the world’s cancer sufferers have no access to pain relief. This means 7 per cent of the world's population ...
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Comment
Michael White on the shadow health secretary
Now that Gordon Brown has started to open up in public and chancellor Alistair Darling has put a couple of jokes into his conference speech, there is no stopping the confessional flood in politics. Even Andrew Lansley has been affected.
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News
Going off Ofcare
Ministers are not keen on the proposed name for the new health and social care regulator, Ofcare.
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News
Four more granted foundation trust status
Four more trusts have been granted foundation trust status by Monitor, the independent regulator.
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Comment
Hygiene: staff won't follow where they are not led
After the years of media scrutiny, policy statements, regulations, inspections and public outcry - not to mention the avoidable deaths and illnesses - it is hard to comprehend why many acute trust boards are failing to make hygiene standards a priority.
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News
Disability watchdog names and shames SHAs
The NHS is failing to tackle disability discrimination, with strategic health authorities among the worst culprits, according to a watchdog.
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Comment
Emma Dent gets diagnosed
A kind reader recently commented that this column reads as though I have spent hours on it. At least, I think they were being kind.
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News
Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Comment
Media Watch: GP contracts and doctored photos
As the party conference season drew to a close, the Conservatives this week came out fighting, with leader David Cameron pledging to rewrite the GP contract.
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News
ISTC contract shortcomings are exposed
An HSJ investigation has found that the vast majority of independent sector treatment centres did not deliver the work contracted for in 2006-07.
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News
Teenage pregnancy: confidentiality guide hailed as step forward
Moves to strengthen confidentiality for young people have been hailed as a step forward in efforts to bring down teenage pregnancy rates.
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News
Incentivise GPs to collect vital ethnic data, urge PCT leaders
Middle managers have hit out at inadequate incentives to collect information on ethnicity that could help tackle health inequalities.
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HSJ Knowledge
A clinical vision for service redesign
When clinicians were asked to design their ideal service, common design rules quickly emerged. As Nigel Edwards and William Dunlop explain, these closely matched the views of patients
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News
Tories stake a claim to be the patient-centred party
The Conservatives have fired their salvo in the battle to prove they are the party that can deliver a patient-centred NHS.
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News
NHS Choices: relaunching on a website near you soon
The much-criticised NHS Choices website will relaunch this month and attempt to position itself as part of the personalised NHS.
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News
Fundamental change key to NHS vision, says Darzi
Lord Darzi will today tell the NHS that it has to make fundamental changes to the way it operates.
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Comment
Tories struggle to make their own room in the centre ground
This week in Blackpool the Conservative Party conference promised to scrap top-down targets - and end the postcode lottery.
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News
Confederation call to tackle health inequalities
Moves to tackle health inequalities must start with the most excluded, the NHS Confederation has urged.
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on connecting with the boss
What is the best way to manage a less than perfect leader? Here, Malcolm Lowe-Lauri offers some suggestions