All Health Service Journal articles in 5 February 2009
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS career coaching: take control
Feeling downtrodden after a bruising divorce and unappreciated at work, one manager turned to coach Dorothy Larios to regain control of her life
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HSJ Knowledge
The homeless and health
Initiatives to wrestle with the health consequences of homelessness are deprived of a coherent national strategy, say campaigners. Mark Gould hears the growing calls for the NHS to take the lead
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on managing ambition in the NHS
NHS managers need to be aware of the benefits and dangers of personal ambition
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Blogs
Dr Anna Donald
HSJ has learned of the sad death of Dr Anna Donald. Dr Donald, who died in Sydney Australia on 1 February, was formerly a co-founder of the healthcare information provider Bazian and an HSJ columnist.
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News
NHS PROMs results ready by November
Hospitals will be publicly rated by patients' reports of their care before the end of the year.
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News
Measles cases rise to record high
Last year saw the highest number of measles cases in England and Wales since records began, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.
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News
Conservatives highlight NHS litigation cost increase
The government has admitted that NHS negligence premiums will nearly double to £713m in the next financial year.
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News
NHS managers call for clinical training overhaul
Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.
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News
West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement
West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations.
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Leader
NHS has a role in weathering the recession
As the country's biggest employer and a tenth of the economy, the NHS has an major role to play in helping us all weather the recession.
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News
Mixed ward target worries
Huge uncertainty exists over whether trusts will be able to comply with health secretary Alan Johnson's new diktat on mixed sex accommodation.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NICE values some patients' lives more
Mike Richards’ review of what to do about top-ups seems to reaffirm the line that the NHS should not subsidise private consumption of healthcare.
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News
Health watchdog handover is on 'red risk'
Crucial staffing and financial decisions regarding the handover from the Healthcare Commission to the Care Quality Commission are still unresolved just two months before the new body takes over.
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News
Rose Gibb's 'irrational' pay-off went unchecked
NHS South East Coast and the Department of Health were aware a pay-off was under discussion with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb - but they failed to intervene to stop it from being signed, a court heard last week.
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News
Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk
The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.
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News
NHS offers private providers shelter in rough economic seas
Until recently private providers could afford to be choosy about what NHS work they took on. Now, as the economy shrinks, the health service will become a vital source of income. Alison Moore reports
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Community
Media Watch: prayer dispute
'Persecuted for praying', screamed the Daily Mail's front page on Monday. Caroline Petrie, a community nurse in North Somerset 'could be sacked' for offering to pray for a 79 year old widow she was treating.
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News
Rose Gibb: 'I was hounded, victimised, demonised'
Rose Gibb accused health secretary Alan Johnson of 'hounding' her after the Healthcare Commission published its critical report.
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News
Council wins grant to investigate inequalities
A council has won a national grant to undertake a five-month inquiry into inequalities in primary care funding, following an HSJ exposé last year.
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Comment
Michael White on NHS co-operation and competition
Following last week’s HSJ article on the NHS’s Co-operation and Competition Panel I have lifted a few stones.