All Health Service Journal articles in 15 November 2007 – Page 3

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Can a constitution seal the health service's freedom?

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi's interim report last month brought the government a step closer to drawing up an NHS constitution. The challenge, writes Liz Kendall, is to bind the service without restraining it

  • News

    ISTC second wave faces cuts

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.

  • News

    MP demands severance deal figure

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.

  • News

    PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury

  • News

    Doctors demand 'revolution' to increase part-time posts

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    The NHS will need to undergo a 'cultural revolution' if the government gives millions more parents the right to work part-time, doctors have warned.

  • Comment

    Emma Dent on hospital phobia

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    HSJ Towers has recently been swelled with the arrival of many other magazines published by our parent company - previously we were scattered in offices across London.

  • Comment

    Give heart and soul for organ donation

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    With managers relentlessly focused on keeping patients alive, they could be forgiven for taking their eye off the ball once someone is dead. But, as so often, there is still one more thing to do.

  • News

    PCTs to be primed for greater NICE input

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts will have a bigger say over the way new drugs are used under plans being drawn up this winter.

  • News

    In this week's HSJ

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    NewsBanks have threatened to hike up the interest rates they charge foundation trusts in the absence of a guarantee that the government will underwrite their debts.Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare ...

  • Comment

    Media Watch: waiting times

    2007-11-15T09:00:00Z

    If the Department of Health hoped for some good press on the latest waiting times, then it should have known better.

  • Comment

    Stephen Ramsden on the transformational approach to patient safety

    2007-11-16T09:00:00Z

    To make real strides in patient safety, we must win the hearts and minds of NHS staff and patients, mobilising them to be drivers of change

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Legal briefing: patient confidentiality beyond the grave

    2007-11-16T09:00:00Z

    Amelia Newbold examines a recent legal landmark protecting the duty of confidentiality between doctor and patient beyond a patient's death

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Supporting diabetes self-management

    2007-11-16T09:00:00Z

    More than 2 million people in theUKare known to have diabetes and it is estimated that a further 750,000 have the disease without being aware of it. Two Co-creating Health teams inLondonare working to improve self-management support for people with the disease.