All Health Service Journal articles in 5 November 2009
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InformationHealthcare 100: deadline extended until Thursday 14th January
Hurry, Healthcare 100 registrations are closing soon.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to assess leadership potential
An assessment centre approach made sure managers had the skills needed in a new foundation trust - and turned up a few surprises as well, says Jane Pepe
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Community
What's in a name?
A “popular” competition to find a name for a new health centre in Manchester attracted “countless entries”, according to a press release received by HSJ.
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CommunityMarathon manager
With all the talk of pay freezes and spending freezes, you might have thought the life of an NHS manager was cold and barren enough these days.
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Community
Herbal medicine
Another anecdote from health minister Ann Keen that proves kids say the funniest things.
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NewsTrusts fail to keep up pace on stroke targets
Fewer than 40 per cent of acute and specialist trusts are achieving the required standards of stroke care.
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LeaderFT governance enthusiasm has given way to indifference
The boards of governors for foundation trusts are ailing. HSJ reveals this week that the turnout for governor elections has halved in five years - it started below 50 per cent - and many are uncontested.
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NewsDH proposals threaten trainee medic posts
A major shake-up of the way trainee doctors are funded could see hospitals cut training posts for junior doctors and swap their posts for nurses, HSJ has been told.
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CommentMichael White on health debates
Handy Andy Burnham, our youthful health secretary and Clark Kent lookalike, slipped out of Britain on Tuesday, heading west towards Washington - safely out of the row over home secretary Alan Johnson’s rash dismissal of David Nutt.
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CommentMedia Watch: drugs debate
The sacking of senior government adviser David Nutt has resulted in the biggest media debate on illegal drugs for many months.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on clinical leadership
Over the last couple of years we have all become used to the importance of clinical leadership for the development of the NHS. In fact in the management of a health service it’s really quite difficult to conceive of an argument against it.
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CommentCarmel Gibbons on NHS leadership in the recession
Inspiring leaders required to steer NHS through tough times. Excellent opportunities for creative individuals. Others need not apply
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NewsDavid Cameron pulls together threads on health policy
Conservative leader David Cameron has set out the legislative changes to healthcare the party plans to implement if it wins the next election.
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NewsZitron: scrap PCTs and cut bureaucracy
The chair of a London primary care trust has proposed scrapping PCTs. He said giving their commissioning role to local authorities would be an “excellent” way of reducing bureaucracy and bringing health services closer to the public.
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NewsCutting NHS jobs is a costly ‘blunt tool’, says NHS Employers
Using redundancies to save money “is a blunt and expensive tool”, NHS Employers is warning.
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LeaderHospitals are blocking stroke care progress, and patients are bearing the cost
HSJ’s analysis of trusts’ performance on stroke care shows there is a long, long way to go.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on medicine’s gender balance
Supposing it were possible for an observer from 50 years ago to be miraculously teleported into one of today’s NHS hospitals - what would seem most different?
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NewsNHS managers to back Labour as job fears focus their minds
An HSJ survey has revealed that NHS managers look more likely than the population at large to back Labour in next year’s general election, perhaps driven by anxiety about job security under the Conservatives. Rebecca Evans studies the findings
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NewsCourt hears private patient cap arguments
The Department of Health has raised concerns that Monitor’s definition of the private patient income cap “permits foundations and their advisers to adopt artificial structures to circumvent the cap”.