All Health Service Journal articles in 12 February 2009
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Supplements
Sustainable Communities Awards 2009 - the winners
Up and down the country there are inspirational examples of people coming together to build stronger and more vibrant communities. This supplement highlights just a selection of their stories.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to beat NHS workplace bullying
Having a clear policy on bullying and harassment at work enables NHS managers to tackle individual cases, says Rachael Heenan
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Comment
Helen Bevan on NHS organisational culture
To achieve the breakthroughs we seek in quality and efficiency, we need to focus NHS change efforts not just on new strategies and working practices but on new ways of thinking.
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Comment
Julia Tybura on NHS career lessons
Preparing for a presentation I was giving to a group of MA students at a London university about human resources careers and opportunities taken, made and missed, I reflected on the fact that I am entering my 25th year of working for a living.
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HSJ Knowledge
Weight loss surgery: who is cut out for it?
Assessment for weight loss surgery - such as gastric bypass or gastric banding - has to ask whether patients are committed to a healthier way of life, insists David Ashton
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News
Stroke awareness campaign to save lives and money
A three year campaign to promote public awareness of stroke symptoms was launched by the Department of Health today.
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News
Maternity closures increasing, say Conservatives
Nearly 50 per cent of hospital trusts had to close to maternity admissions at least once in 2008.The Conservatives, who collated the figures from freedom of information requests, said they demonstrated Labour's 'terrible record on maternity'.
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News
NHS Scotland funding announced
NHS Scotland boards will share £8.6bn of funding next financial year. The sum includes £385m earmarked for capital investment, which the Scottish government said would help boost the struggling economy.
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News
NHS top-up policy needs more scrutiny - RCN
The Royal College of Nursing is calling on strategic health authorities to step up scrutiny of top-up payments to ensure the new government policy 'does not result in a two tier NHS'.
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Comment
Steve Feast asks who will lead general practice in the future
The leadership structure of general practice is changing rapidly as fewer and fewer GP partners employ increasing numbers of salaried GPs. A new governance model is emerging.
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News
Malnutrition costs UK £13bn a year, report claims
Three million people are living at risk of malnutrition in the UK and the condition is costing around £13bn a year, a report has claimed.
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News
Modest rise in GP extended hours
There has been a modest increase in the number of GP practices offering extended opening hours, monthly figures show.
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News
Double weak PCT gets new chairman
Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust has appointed a new chairman.
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News
Suspended chief executive in limbo as review drags on
A hospital trust that suspended its chief executive in October and began a review into his performance has had to appoint a second interim replacement, as the review overruns by more than two months.John Watkinson was suspended by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust following a critical review of his performance ...
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on NHS clinical governance and the credit crunch
I had the good fortune to attend a breast cancer conference in the US recently. Nearly a decade after I stopped treating breast cancer, this was in my role as a trustee of Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
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News
Scottish health minister Shona Robison takes on new brief
Scottish health minister Shona Robison is to take on responsibility for sport, following a reshuffle of the Scottish parliament.
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News
Campaigners attack NHS prescription charge exemptions
It is wrong to draw up a list of 'deserving and undeserving' illnesses that entitle some NHS patients to a prescription charge waiver, campaigners have said.
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News
DH extends Atos choose and book contract
The Department of Health has signed a two year contract with Atos Healthcare to continue managing the choose and book system.
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News
London will review polyclinics
London's primary care trusts are to evaluate the first of their polyclinics to show whether the controversial developments are improving healthcare and access.They have set out their requirements for the external review, which follows cynicism about the model from some GPs.
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News
London hospital fire: 250 evacuated
Around 250 patients and staff were evacuated from a London hospital today when a fire started in its basement.Northwick Park Hospital's accident and emergency and maternity services departments were closed after a small fire in an electrical room in the basement. Patients were evacuated to avoid smoke.