All Health Service Journal articles in 9 April 2009
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CommentAndrea Sutcliffe: advice on delivering effective NHS care
As the Healthcare Commission cleared the decks in preparation for the launch of the Care Quality Commission on 1 April, some of its final reports made chastening reading for all of us involved in the delivery of healthcare that should be safe, effective and a good experience for patients.
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CommentDavid Peat on PCT provider arms
The proposed division of primary care trusts’ provider and commissioner arms reminds me of the old legal concept of “one roof with separate rooms”.
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CommentAngela Greatley on community mental health treatment
Supervised community treatment was one of the most controversial aspects of the 2007 Mental Health Act. The new powers were introduced in November 2008, since which time some 1,200 requests for second opinions to ratify such orders have already been made.
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CommentMichael White on the recent political populism
Watch out for political populism in troubled times. Most of us have been indulging in banker-bashing, but such enjoyably bad habits can be contagious and beneficial chiefly to extremists on the prowl. I spotted two crowd-pleasers that affect HSJ readers only this weekend.
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CommunityOld school medicine
As everyone knows, despite ever increasing scientific advances, getting decidedly old school can sometimes be the best medicine. But it takes a strong stomach to read in the British Medical Journal that recent studies have proved using larval (maggot) therapy to treat leg ulcers has similar health and cost benefits ...
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LeaderNew look hsj.co.uk will give you much more
HSJ’s website has relaunched. The new service at hsj.co.uk features simpler navigation, a more powerful search engine and vastly more links to related articles.
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News
Economic downturn forces many PCTs to rewrite funding forecasts
Primary care trusts are having to redraft their five year strategic plans because of out of date assumptions about funding in 2011-12.
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: two ways to reduce junior doctors' hours
Two different trusts have focused on ways of working within specialties as the route to compliance on junior doctors’ hours
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HSJ KnowledgeWorking Hours: NHS organisations on track to meet working time directive
Most NHS organisations are on track to have their staff working an average of no more than 48 hours a week by 1 August
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: top tips to meet the working time directive
Here is a collation of invaluable tips from experts on achieving the European working time directive
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CommunityLookey-likey: Nick Curtiss and Super Mario
“Staff in the corporate governance directorate at NHS Ealing have all been struck by how much their director, Nick Curtiss (sic), looks like (Nintendo games console character) Super Mario,” writes assistant director for communications Fiona Harcombe.
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: how to work less without compromising training
Rethinking its emergency service enabled Homerton University Hospital foundation trust to maintain junior doctors’ training time while achieving compliance on hours
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: communication and teamwork generate results
It was communication and collaboration that put Alder Hey Children’s foundation trust on track for EWTD compliance
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News
Commissioner's office monitors NHS information disclosure
The Information Commissioner’s Office has begun monitoring NHS organisations for compliance with the model publication scheme, which came into effect on 1 January under the Freedom of Information Act. Public authorities must ensure people can easily identify the types of information that will be routinely disclosed.
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News
Search starts for new chief executive of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
The hunt has begun for a new chief executive for the Yorkshire and Humber strategic health authority.
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CommunityMedia Watch: hospital parking charges report
The measured reasoning of the NHS Confederation’s hospital parking charges report is failing to quell a mini rebellion in Lancashire.
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CommentStephen Eames on patients driving change
Delivering radical reform in public services was the government’s battle cry in last month’s white paper Working Together - Public Services on Your Side. Given the parlous state of the country’s finances, the message will be exactly the same from any future government.
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News
Foundation trust fights London centralisation
A London foundation trust is rallying members to help protect services against centralisation.
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HSJ Knowledge
Working Hours: a case study in reducing junior doctors' hours
With a successful Hospital at Night pilot behind it and Computers on Wheels in clinical areas, a Liverpool trust significantly reduced junior doctors’ hours
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Community
Care combat
A new month, a new season and a new dawn for health and social care inspection as super-regulator the Care Quality Commission came into being on 1 April. And among the million and one things it has to do, upping its internet profile should be on the list.