All Health Service Journal articles in 1 May 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Qualifications for managers

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    A company secretary qualification is offering expanded skills and career opportunities for managers. Scroll down for more information and case studies

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Sexual health - protection plea

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Stuart Shepherd visits Nottingham to see how the NHS is coping with a surge in sexually transmitted infections, amid calls to keep them top priority

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Mental health equality drive

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Partnerships with imams are breaking down barriers between mental health workers and Sheffield's Pakistani community

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Recruitment checks: scanning your staff

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Latest guidance on all the essential pre-employment checks will help ensure you bring safe and well-suited staff on board, says Sian Thomas

  • Comment

    Lisa Rodrigues on appointing a new chair

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Managers should be aware of the unintended consequences their actions can bring about

  • Comment

    Ali Mohammed on staff empowerment

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    The other day I was asked the rather ambiguous question, 'How many inches have you got?' I was taken aback until I realised the question was about my TV.

  • Comment

    This week's All Our Yesterdays

    2008-04-23T12:53:39Z

    Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 30 April 1948From a study of old age, carried out by the Nuffield Foundation Survey Committee on people in Wolverhampton."In the great majority of instances the old people enjoy their food and eat ordinary food. Among women, however, a larger proportion ...

  • Comment

    Another coat of arms suggestion for Sir Robert Naylor

    2008-04-23T12:52:26Z

    David Poynton, chair of consultancy Public Sector Consultants (formerly Robert's finance director at Heartlands trust for 10 years - we are still on speaking terms, he says) writes to suggest a coat of arms for Robert Naylor (End Game, passim). He explains it thus: "The heraldic meaning is as follows; ...

  • Comment

    'Lunatic' goings-on in Welsh government

    2008-04-23T12:43:25Z

    From our kind friends on the news desk comes the following intriguing tale of a Conservative MP who seems to have developed the power of second sight.First minister ofWales, Labour’s Rhodri Morgan launched a stinging attack against a Conservative assembly member for his “farcical” and “lunatic” attempt to discredit the ...

  • Comment

    Awards preview

    2008-04-23T10:48:49Z

    Managing long term care sponsored by Sanofi AventisThe growing number of community matrons working across and covering just about every GP practice in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care trust patch – there are now 39 – is just one indicator of the success of the county’s ...