All Health Service Journal articles in 17 January 2008
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Creating the perfect acute hospital
Judges for the HSJ Award for acute healthcare organisation of the year said if you pulled together all the best practice around the country, you would have the perfect trust. So what would it look like, asks Daloni Carlisle
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Reducing length of stay
It has long been recognised that some hospitals have longer lengths of stay than others. The true extent of the variations becomes starkly apparent when trust-by-trust data is closely analysed. According to information supplied by NHS trusts to data warehouse HES for 2005/6 (the most recent available), patients’ hospital ...
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: the operating framework
I checked every envelope and couldn't find David Nicholson's personal Christmas card to you. But I did find the operating framework for the NHS in England 2008-09 in your e-mail.
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Comment
Weird world health
A reader pointed out last week that the Kremlin picture from a recent issue of HSJ (page 16, December 20) actually used pictures of St Basil’s Cathedral. Yet this move may have been serendipity, as a quick internet search in an idle moment reveals that St Basil is the patron ...
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All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review, January 16, 1948On the care of premature infants: “Manchester Health Committee points out that such special provision for infants born prematurely is urgently necessary at Withington Hospital.”The accommodation was intended to include such facilities as a crockery steriliser in the kitchen, installation ...
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Strong endorsement for Tooke workforce review
Proposals to scrutinise strategic health authorities' performance on workforce planning have won overwhelming endorsement from the NHS.
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Maggie Rae on action for equality
Christmas came early for me insofar as all the objectives I wanted to deliver were prioritised in the NHS operating framework. I was delighted to see health inequalities in there.
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Ali Mohammed on job satisfaction
What makes you get up and come to work each day? Is it the challenge of the job? The working conditions? Recent Department of Health research suggests 10 usual suspects as answers, including 'having the skills and equipment needed to do my job', 'being treated with respect, trusted and listened ...
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Hilary Thomas on new perspectives on caring
Looking back, 2007 was an odd year for me. Making a career change has been inspiring and invigorating. The fact that it coincided with moving back to London, putting a year of treatment behind me and the clunky dawn of my sense of mortality and ordinariness has added to my ...
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NHS sick leave: supporting staff well-being
To cut sickness absence, employers must encourage workers to live healthier lives and provide programmes to help the long-term ill back to work, says Ben Willmott
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Solutions for reducing length of stay
The NHS could save up to £400m a year in length-of-stay costs with some simple measures, argues Andrew Webb
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The impact of the civil standard of proof in fitness to practise hearings
Changes in the standard of proof used in General Medical Council fitness to practise panel hearings could lead to serious difficulties. Sophie Kemp explains
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Creating a culture of commitment in the healthcare sector
Look for Steve Onyett's column in HSJ's training and development supplement on 21 February.
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MMC specialty training recruitment 2008 - dates announced
The Modernising Medical Careers programme board has written to doctors outlining the high-level principles agreed by the board and setting out the dates between which the majority of recruitment for specialty training programmes in 2008 will take place (5 January to 16 May).
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Salaried primary care dentists accept new contract
The British Dental Association has confirmed that salaried primary care dentists in England have voted to accept proposals to modernise their contract, negotiated by NHS Employers and the BDA.
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European law and the NHS - the year ahead
Steve Barnett looks at EU law and its potential impact on the NHS workforce in 2008
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Contract proposals for staff and associate specialists
The government has agreed to the new contract for staff and associate specialist doctors negotiated between NHS Employers and the BMA, subject to adoption of changed transitional arrangements.
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Comment
James Kennedy on rethinking out-of-hours care
Forcing GPs to provide out-of-hours care may not be the best way to rebuild public confidence in these services. Instead, the government should look to other providers to fill the gap
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Shaping the future of nursing
NHS Employers is seeking the views of organisations to inform our response to two consultations on the future of nurses' pre and post registration. This is our opportunity to shape the future of nursing in the NHS. We aim to put together a representative response and are keen to feed ...
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NICE could rate all drugs for extra £1m a year
Proposals to extend the work of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence would cost just £1m extra a year, or 3.5 per cent of its budget, its chief executive Andrew Dillon has estimated.