All Health Service Journal articles in 17 January 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Lib Dem leader outlines plans for the health service

    2008-01-17T09:00:00Z

    The new leader of the Liberal Democrats has outlined his party's proposals for all patients to be given a set of 'entitlements' to treatment, based on their condition.

  • News

    GPs failing to pick up patients at most risk of heart disease

    2008-01-17T09:00:00Z

    GPs in some of the poorest areas of the country are failing to identify patients with coronary heart disease and treat them effectively, HSJ’s analysis suggests.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: organ donors

    2008-01-17T09:00:00Z

    Prime minister Gordon Brown's Damascene conversion to presumed organ consent was, naturally, a hot topic for the press.

  • News

    Henderson Hospital may be saved

    2008-01-17T09:00:00Z

    Fresh hope has been sparked that ministers could intervene to save a national psychiatry service, a month after commissioners decided to close it.

  • News

    In this week's HSJ

    2008-01-17T11:06:00Z

    NewsGPs in some of the poorest areas of the country are failing to identify patients with coronary heart disease and treat them effectively, HSJ's analysis suggests.A letter leaked to HSJ has revealed the strained relationship between the government and the Healthcare Commission following the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells infection outbreak.In ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Age discrimination - are NHS employers at risk of claims?

    2008-01-18T09:00:00Z

    In cases of compulsory retirement, NHS organisations should provide clear, legitimate reasons for their decisions to avoid future litigation, particularly given the uncertainties surrounding this area of law. Jean Sapeta explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Putting discharge delays to bed

    2008-01-18T09:00:00Z

    Better systems are needed to put a stop to bed blocking. Tom Rothwell examines the problem and what can be done to overcome it

  • Comment

    PROMs get their big night at last

    2008-01-21T15:40:00Z

    For 60 years, NHS policy makers, in common with counterparts in all healthcare systems, public and private, have believed that regular 'redisorganisation' of structures, combined with increases in funding to increase activity, improved patients' health, writes Alan Maynard

  • Comment

    Narrowing the Gap - call for evidence

    2008-01-21T16:01:00Z

    Christine Davies invites HSJ readers to make a submission to the Narrowing the Gap project's evidence panel.

  • Comment

    Brown's good news for public health

    2008-01-21T16:11:00Z

    Gordon Brown's New Year commitment to cardiovascular screening is a firm step in the right direction - upstream towards prevention - and although we've heard this kind of thing from government before, this time I get the feeling they really mean it.