All Health Service Journal articles in 12 June 2008 – Page 3

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    Maggi Rose on clinical supervision

    2008-06-11T09:00:00Z

    While NHS organisations often get caught up in documenting the benefits and justifying the expense of clinical supervision, the most important thing to keep sight of are the benefits to the people directly involved the process

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    Good Hope Hospital one year on

    2008-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Last week the Department of Health announced a tough new performance regime that could see failing managers replaced with teams from the private sector or foundation trusts. Will anyone want to take on the risk of running a bankrupt business? Heart of England foundation trust chief executive Mark Goldman argues ...

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    Solving the staff morale equation

    2008-06-10T09:00:00Z

    Your trust's performance is improving, staff vacancies and turnover are low and absenteeism is going down. So why is morale still low? Blair McPherson looks at the factors that affect how staff see their jobs and their organisation

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    Freeing bottlenecks in vital services

    2008-06-10T09:00:00Z

    When you have highly qualified, expert staff in costly facilities, the last thing service managers need are bottlenecks that make it difficult for patients to access vital services quickly, writes Christina Pond

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    Workforce planning - six steps for success

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Using national guidance to plan its whole workforce has been a trust-wide ambition for a South West PCT. Helen Mooney reports on how the work has paid off

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    Service planning: shock of the new

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Sherford is a new town being built near Plymouth and plans for its health services promise to test support for new models - just don't mention polyclinics. Lynn Eaton takes a look

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    Stephen Ramsden on measurement

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    There is an old adage, 'if you can't measure it, you can't manage it', and measurement has been a big ingredient of NHS performance management.

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    Is the doctor a museum piece?

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    A consultation among doctors has revealed discomfort about their future but detected a degree of optimism. Steve Dewar explains the results

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    Engaging the public in commissioning

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Engaging patients and the public has long been policy mantra. Now legislation is making it a reality. Andy Cowper explains

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    Future of commissioning: progress report

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    In December 2007, the Department of Health and the NHS launched the vision for world class commissioning.

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    Supporting world class commissioning

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts will be able to call on a rich network to help find their way with world class commissioning

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    World class commissioning: joint working

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Joint working between PCTs and local authorities means a two-pronged attack on health inequality

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    Health inequalities in primary care

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Benchmarking can help PCTs tackle deprivation and achieve performance and funding practices that compare with the best, says Nigel Crew

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    Making practice based commissioning perfect

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Practice clinicians are being seen as the linchpins of future local procurement of quality care services, as Andy Cowper explains

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    World class commissioning: quality assurance

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    How can PCTs be sure they are on the right path to world class commissioning? We look at the quality assurance system developed by the Department of Health to help clinicians and managers achieve their targets

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    David Amos on NHS apprenticeships

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    Last autumn, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech to the Communist Party congress entitled, 'Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive for New Victories in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in all Respects'.

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    David Woodhead and Adrian Kelly on reducing teenage pregnancy

    2008-06-09T09:00:00Z

    With the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in western Europe, the UK needed to take serious steps to meet its goal of halving incidents by 2010

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    Awards previews

    2008-05-29T10:26:20Z

    Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year sponsored by CHKSSouth Tees Hospitals trust has been on what can only be described as a quite extraordinary journey. You don’t have to go back very many years at all to find an organisation struggling under the burden of£56 million of debt and two ...

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    Putting land assets to use

    2008-05-29T09:00:59Z

    Faced with a large piece of poorly used prime real estate right next to a top teaching hospital in central London, Guy's and St Thomas' Charity brought the developers in to build housing for key workers. Louise Hunt reports