All Health Service Journal articles in 17 April 2008 – Page 2
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the floor: mental health services
Matthew Stone manages the East Sussex primary mental health worker team, which has a key role in joined-up working as part of the wider child and adolescent mental health services offered by Sussex Partnership trust
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Comment
Maggie Rae on spending time in general practice
Sometimes it is good to see the world from another viewpoint. We can all get very focused on our priorities, roles and responsibilities. Occasionally it can be worth swapping seats and seeing how the world looks from a new angle.
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on NHS stability
It is April and something strange is going on in England and Scotland. No major structural changes are under way or planned.
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News
Career path: leader in mental health
Jenny McAleese explains how she rose to the top of a specialist mental health provider and helped to turn around its finances
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HSJ Knowledge
Recruiting financial talent in the health sector
Recruiting and retaining the best financial minds is about more than just offering the right salary. NHS organisations need to get the word out about their unique selling points if they are to compete for the best candidates, argues Nick Hague
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Comment
Mike Nelsey on NHS data security
Giving staff quick and efficient access to patient information while ensuring that such data does not fall into the wrong hands is a key challenge facing the NHS
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News
Learning lessons about safeguarding vulnerable adults
In your news item, you referred to Margaret Flynn, who rightly highlighted the role of the NHS in the failures that led up to the tragic death of Steven Hoskin and drew attention to the tendency within the service to view safeguarding vulnerable adults as solely a social care responsibility.
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Leader
Fines could turn access screw - if they do not scare off GPs
The plans being discussed by junior health minister Lord Darzi to effectively fine GPs when patients inappropriately use walk-in centres, accident and emergency departments and minor injury units, illuminate some of the darker corners of primary care policy.
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News
Inappropriate A&E use could mean fines for family doctors
The Department of Health is considering proposals to charge back to GPs the treatment cost of patients who visit accident and emergency departments instead of their family doctor, HSJhas learned.The proposals could emerge as part of the Darzi review this summer.
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News
Emma Dent looks for a GP again
Well, we have managed yet another move with bodies and minds largely intact, bar the odd bruise or 10.
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News
Inflation fears lead Unite to turn against three-year pay deal
Trade union Unite has recommended that ancillary and ambulance staff in the NHS reject the government's three-year pay offer.
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News
Former ambulance trust chief defends controversial style
A former ambulance trust chief executive has hit back at a report in which staff branded him a 'benevolent dictator', under whose leadership targets were put before patient safety.
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News
Targets create ambulance staff tension
Government targets and organisational change have been blamed for 'disappointing' staff survey results from ambulance trusts.
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrea Sutcliffe on giving credit where due
At the 2008 chairs' conference held in January, health secretary Alan Johnson ended his keynote address by expressing his 'enormous gratitude' for the important work chairs do for the NHS.
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Comment
Michael White on audit culture
Reading the high-minded Times Literary Supplement on a comfortable sofa the other weekend, I stumbled on a ferocious attack on the audit culture that is now so much a routine feature of national life, NHS included.
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Blogs
GPs and evidence based medicine
The title given to the magazine version of my article, ‘How GPs are ignoring the evidence’, did not reflect the essence of the piece, writes Daragh Fahey
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HSJ Knowledge
Taking patient safety seriously at board level
In 2002, when I was chief executive of an acute trust, I remember sharing the indignation of the whole country over the series of train crashes that killed around 50 people between 1999 and 2002. It did not enter my head at the time that I was a senior executive ...
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Leader
Introducing Board Talk, the new voice for non-execs
Today HSJ is launching Board Talk, a free service on hsj.co.uk for trust non-executive directors.
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News
Career coaching for NHS board members
Dorothy Larios explains how non-executive directors and chairs can benefit from coaching and invites readers to take advantage of coaching sessions offered by HSJ
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News
Bradshaw warns PCTs: make the right choice
As ‘free choice’ is extended to all patients, minister Ben Bradshaw tells primary care trusts they must undergo a cultural change to make it work - with consequences if they fail. Rebecca Evans met him
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