All Health Service Journal articles in 14 May 2009 – Page 3
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CommunityPig deal
It’s hard enough to take swine flu seriously since it sounds like an illness affecting nasty people, but endless viral emails and text messages aren’t doing much to improve its image. So far we’ve had people carted off in “hambulances”, victims breaking out in “rashers” and “farmacists” selling patients the ...
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LeaderPatient reported outcome measures raise questions of how need for operations is decided
HSJ’s revelation this week that tens of millions of pounds are being spent on treatments that arguably do not improve patients’ lives serves to focus minds.
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CommentStephen Eames on the quest for quality
At a recent meeting, a colleague likened the current welter of initiatives on quality to being “tied down like Gulliver”. It’s not that I argue with the importance of providing safe, high quality care - far from it - but I have some sympathy with the view that there is ...
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NewsFears grow over flu pandemic stockpiles
Concerns are growing over whether primary care trusts will be able to avoid running out of flu pandemic equipment amid confusion over who should be stockpiling supplies.
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CommentMichael White on integrity and whistleblowing
Amid the uproar over the MPs’ expenses scandal three prime ministers addressed health issues this past week. I refer, of course, to Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Alan Johnson, who is also now tipped (improbably) to succeed Alistair Darling in Number 11.
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CommunityLookey-likey: The sneezing man and Malcolm Tucker
Topical lookey-likey: the man spraying germy snot everywhere in the Department of Health’s swine flu prevention adverts looks like foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It and In the Loop.
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CommunityUp in smoke
It would be enough to send even the most steel willed public health director reaching for the Marlboros. East Lancashire primary care trust last week ‘fessed up to having double-counted its smoking cessation figures for much of the past year.
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NewsDepartment of Health publishes list of quality measures
The Department of Health will this Friday publish a “menu” of measures agreed by senior clinicians for judging the quality of their care.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve quality of diagnosis
Little research exists into issues around GPs and acute clinicians getting diagnoses wrong. Ingrid Torjesen asks what the NHS is doing about this crucial quality issue
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