All Health Service Journal articles in 15 May 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    First regional Darzi reports set out vision for the future

    2008-05-14T12:24:00Z

    NHS Yorkshire and the Humber has unveiled plans to boost life expectancy, cut hospital admissions and increase patient responsibility in its regional Darzi report published today. Meanwhile, NHS East of England said it would tackle mental health waiting times and pilot patient-held budgets in its 10-year 'road map'. Follow the ...

  • Comment

    Ronny Flynn on long-term illness and poverty

    2008-05-14T09:00:00Z

    A review of long-term illness, poverty and ethnicity recently published by the Race Equality Foundation identifies the complex, disruptive effects of illness on families and raises a number of concerns.

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    Healthy weight management

    2008-05-13T09:00:00Z

    Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: a cross-government strategy for England was launched in February. In the same month, NHS North West launched the North West framework, which sets out guidelines on helping children and families achieve a healthy weight.

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    Guide to integrated working

    2008-05-13T09:00:00Z

    The Care Services Improvement Partnership's five networks publish a range of material that sets out to inform and advise people working in health and social care on a range of issues, including integration, personalisation, telecare and housing. Chris Mahony gives an overview of one recent publication below

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Improving staff communication

    2008-05-13T09:00:00Z

    Setting up an online forum is an easy, inexpensive way to encourage better communication among healthcare staff, especially those working different shifts. John Harrison explains

  • News

    Career Path: leading change in the NHS

    2008-05-13T09:00:00Z

    Michael Scott's CV reads like a chronology of NHS reforms. So it is not surprising that his next move is into a London PCT. Here, he explains how his career took shape

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    CSIP factsheet on administering medicines

    2008-05-13T09:00:00Z

    The Care Services Improvement Partnership's housing learning and improvement network has published an online factsheet to help practitioners, commissioners, care service managers and housing managers in extra care housing deal with issues surrounding administering medicines.

  • Comment

    Ken Jarrold on the staff survey

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission will leave a rich legacy, including the remarkable and powerful staff surveys that have given the people of the NHS a voice to which we should listen.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Hospital franchises - quantum leap

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    The Royal Marsden is pioneering a satellite cancer unit at another hospital. Will the franchise model play a big part in the era of choice and competition? Helen Mooney finds out

  • HSJ Knowledge

    View from the floor: dementia services

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    Janice Bond is a senior occupational therapist with Sussex Partnership trust. She works on a joint health and social services support scheme for people with dementia

  • Comment

    David Peat on promoting healthy lifestyles

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    We all know we should eat less, exercise more, stop smoking and drink less alcohol. But we all ask: where is the fun in that?

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Staff development: crack the performance whip

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    Giving staff feedback on their performance can sometimes feel like making people jump through hoops. But there is an art to it, says Jenny Rogers

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Training: cognitive therapy first

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    A nursing director has developed an online cognitive behavioural therapists' course as part of his MBA. Lyn Whitfield reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Maggie Rae on the NHS's 60th anniversary

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    Have you started on your plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS? Don't leave it to the great and good to celebrate - you are the great and the good.

  • News

    Darzi report reveals service change plans

    2008-05-09T09:30:00Z

    Lord Darzi has pledged to put clinicians at the centre of local decisions to change health services.

  • News

    Barbara Young sets out vision for Care Quality Commission

    2008-05-08T17:15:00Z

    Baroness Barbara Young, who is in line to chair the new Care Quality Commission, told MPs today: 'I really want this job.'The Labour peer, who is currently chief executive of the Environment Agency, underwent a grilling by the health select committee in the new-style public job interview.

  • Comment

    Awards preview

    2008-05-08T13:33:28Z

    Mental Health Innovation sponsored by Mental Health Strategies"We entered the HSJ awards because we thought it was a good chance to showcase something innovative and different," says Paul Sheffield, service manager with the winning team behind Oxfordshire’s integrated primary children’s mental health service.What Mr Sheffield and his colleagues might not ...

  • Comment

    A Royal All Our Yesterdays

    2008-05-06T16:13:33Z

    Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, May 14 1948Princess Elizabeth, opening [an] exhibition which marks the centenary of the passing of the first Public Health Act, said that a century of steady progress, due to wise Acts of Parliament, to the increase of knowledge and to public enlightenment, ...

  • Comment

    This week's lookey likey

    2008-05-06T16:12:06Z

    Readers may recall that End Game is a big fan of '80s pop references appearing on this page and here is another one for you. We think that acting joint director of NHS Employers Sian Thomas and Toyah Wilcox look rather alike (without the need for Sian to have plastic ...