All Health Service Journal articles in 14 August 2008
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Comment
Angela Greatley on worrying welfare reforms
Late last month, the government published its latest plans for welfare reform. Many of the proposals in the green paper, No One Written Off, are likely to be very significant for sick and disabled people.
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Comment
David Amos on staff engagement
The people of Hounslow, west London, have been impressed by a street cleaner who dances like Michael Jackson. This is either the council chief executive on a back to the floor initiative thinking about how much his contract is worth, or an extremely engaged employee.
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Comment
Linda Havard on unlocking clinical leadership
Lord Darzi's next stage review focuses on the importance of healthcare delivery, but at the expense of the details. Are local authorities up to the challenge of meeting the review's grand vision?
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on healthy competition
The right sort of competition in healthcare is a prescription for huge gains in quality and efficiency. But while this can be encouraged partly through attractive incentives, have we been too lenient in pursuing more punitive measures?
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HSJ Knowledge
Staff development: three steps to greatness
Chris Roebuck explains how human resources is vital to develop the next generation of leaders in the health service
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HSJ Knowledge
Summer reading: try some R&R
It's been a big year for managers, one way or another. So why not leave work behind and lose yourself in a good book? It is holiday time, after all
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HSJ Partners
Former Health Foundation award holder takes on prosthetics role
Former Health Foundation award holder Jane Cumming has been appointed as the first lead consultant physiotherapist for prosthetics in the NHS at South Tees trust.
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HSJ Partners
Three clinical leaders awarded quality fellowship
Three national clinical leaders of the future were today announced as Health Foundation quality improvement fellows.
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News
Health volunteering in Cambodia - tackling inequalities
In the latest of a series on volunteering abroad in the health service, Patricia Sloan talks about the drive to reduce health inequalities in the Cambodian health system
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HSJ Knowledge
Stepping up to primary care leadership
A leadership development project set up by Bedfordshire primary care trust and the Royal College of Nursing is helping nurses and therapists develop new skills and improve patient care
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing clinicians for leadership
Lord Darzi's review of the NHS emphasises medical leadership as one of the keys to driving up quality in the health service. Oliver Warren describes one programme that is helping to make this a reality
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HSJ Partners
WHO honours Health Foundation fellow
Health Foundation clinician scientist fellow Anna Gilmore has received a World Health Organisation award in recognition of her research into tobacco control and tobacco industry strategies in Europe.
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HSJ Partners
Seizing the initiative on self-management
Self-management has become the next big thing in healthcare policy, thanks to Lord Darzi's recent report. Clinicians now have an excellent opportunity to improve the standard of care provided to patients with long-term conditions
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Comment
Tim Benson and Justin Whatling on measuring outcomes
The only way to find out if your healthcare strategies are working is through reliable measurement.
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News
Watchdog chair to get tough on obeying NICE rules
Care Quality Commission chair Baroness Young has pledged to crack down on NHS organisations that fail to adopt National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance.Ignoring guidelines could result in marked-down annual assessment ratings and lower pay, she told HSJ in her first interview in her role at the new ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving quality: a perfect 10 from patients
The next stage of NHS reform will be about improving quality - and an ambitious outcomes measurement regime will be crucial, say Jon Sussex and Adrian Towse
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News
'Struggling' coders threaten tariff improvements in 2009
Research commissioned by the Department of Health has warned of huge problems in the way hospital services are measured and costed, saying they could undermine payment by results.
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News
Double act for IT leadership
The Department of Health has selected the two IT chiefs who will fill Richard Granger's former position at the top of its NHS Connecting for Health agency.
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News
PCTs suspect trusts may be allowing top ups
Primary care trusts have received few requests from patients wishing to 'top up' their care but are concerned that hospitals are doing so without their permission.
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News
Failures led to C diff deaths
Criminal charges may be brought against Scotland's largest health board after a review into a fatal hospital infection showed 'appalling and unacceptable' failures.