Health Service Journal
Claire Laurent
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Adolescent services: smells like teen spirit
1-Sep-2008
The teenage years are not the easiest: testing boundaries, asserting your independence and taking risks - and this age group often falls between child and adult healthcare. Claire Laurent reports on moves to target services for young people's needs -
Cancer strategy: earlier, faster, shorter - and more data
13-Dec-2007
Last week the government promised a further £370m to reform cancer, with a focus on prevention and shorter hospital stays. But selective fast-tracking plans have drawn criticism. Claire Laurent reports -
Where do they come in?
30-Sep-2004
Published: 30/09/2004, Volume II4, No. 5925 Page 34 35 -
National service
11-Dec-2003
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Ready, study, go
20-Feb-2003
Published: 20/02/2001, Volume II3, No. 5843 Page 23 25 -
Too hot to handle?
23-Aug-2001
WARD MANAGERS: People who manage wards feel their accountability is being increased while their control of resources is being diminished. Claire Laurent reports -
Keeping mum
5-Jul-2001
CHILDCARE: For many parents, work is only possible once childcare has been resolved. So the NHS is wise to invest in more nursery places, says Claire Laurent -
Scene setting
5-Jul-2001
TRAINING: The NHS is working with educational institutes to recruit the people who will eventually provide it with much-needed skills, reports Claire Laurent -
Independence way
19-Apr-2001
Intermediate care has been redefined and given a new emphasis - as well as new money. But the model being introduced has had little evaluation and may produce no added benefits to patients, says Claire Laurent -
'Resign or be sacked' was 'choice' for chair
22-Mar-2001
Health secretary Alan Milburn was told of the departure of the former chair of Stoke Mandeville Hospital trust earlier this month before she had submitted her resignation over breaches of the 18-month waiting-list guarantee. -
Four step down over breacches of hospital trust wait guarantee
15-Mar-2001
Attempts to conceal breaches of the 18-month waiting-list guarantee at Stoke Mandeville Hospital trust led to the resignation of the chair and three non-executive directors last week. -
That'll teach them
1-Mar-2001
The amount of time and money dedicated to training staff can vary as much as five times between trusts. Claire Laurent looks at the many factors behind the variations -
Clinical depression
22-Feb-2001
An unpublished action plan seen by HSJmakes wide-ranging criticisms of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust's accident and emergency services. Claire Laurent wonders if the plan will do anything to stop the haemorrhaging of staff -
Directory inquiry
15-Feb-2001
Patients'views are now supposed to be central to the NHS.So why have they had no input into the health service's new guide? Claire Laurent reports -
In fine voice
25-Jan-2001
A new report is claiming success with its methodology of using mental health service users as interviewers as well as interviewees. Claire Laurent reports -
Means to an end
11-Jan-2001
Abortions are easy to obtain - but there are wide regional variations in who gets access to NHS-funded services, reports Claire Laurent -
'I can see you now'
4-Jan-2001
Government-funded online centres are providing new treatment opportunities for those with mental health problems. Claire Laurent reports -
The killing fields
2-Nov-2000
Shocking levels of suicides among farmers are pointing to a gap in rural mental health services. Claire Laurent reports on possible remedies -
Finding their feet
26-Oct-2000
Shaky beginnings maybe, but the Sure Start scheme is a sure-fire success with local people. Claire Laurent reports -
Back to basics
19-Oct-2000
As PCGs become PCTs, lay members are demanding higher pay. Without it, they say, the only people we'll see serving on these lynchipins of primary care reform are the 'usual suspects'. Claire Laurent reports -
One to watch
12-Oct-2000
The trouble with public health annual reports is that no-one reads them. Will putting it on video get round the problem? Claire Laurent reports -
Modernisers are just the usual suspects
5-Oct-2000
The NHS modernisation board seems, as the DoH admits, to consist largely of 'the people you would expect'. But, asks Claire Laurent, can they be truly independent? Why the overpowering emphasis on acute hospital issues? And what happened to partnership wi -
The worst times are over. . .
5-Oct-2000
. . . but the challenge begins for the new president of the managers' organisation, the IHM. Claire Laurent reports -
Germ warfare
28-Sep-2000
Public health professionals need to regain the public confidence lost in the BSE crisis. Claire Laurent reports -
Altered image
14-Sep-2000
A label of 'dual diagnosis' is being given to people with mental health problems who misuse alcohol and drugs. But will this improve their care, asks Claire Laurent -
Troubleshooters sent in to sort 'red-hot' pressure trust
20-Jul-2000
London regional office has sent a troubleshooting team into Barts and the London trust to tackle performance in a month in which the trust has lost its chair and admitted 'red-hot pressures' in intensive care. -
With complements
29-Jun-2000
The NHS is beginning to wake up to complementary medicine. Now there is handy guidance on how it can be integrated into conventional medicine. Claire Laurent reports -
Out of sight
1-Jun-2000
Action to address the growing problem of female genital mutilation is being hampered by taboos and ignorance, writes Claire Laurent -
Family value
27-Apr-2000
Hospice-at-home services can provide support to families in a way that is impossible in a medical setting. Claire Laurent reports -
On a well-planned journey
27-Apr-2000
Claire Laurent looks at how local providers of cancer services have implemented one-stop shops to speed patients through the system -
A class act
24-Feb-2000
Clinical governance has made quality assurance training relevant to a wider group of healthcare professionals. Claire Laurent outlines the options
