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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS sick leave: supporting staff well-being

    2008-01-14T09:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    Hilary Thomas on new perspectives on caring

    2008-01-14T09:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Ali Mohammed on job satisfaction

    2008-01-14T09:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Maggie Rae on action for equality

    2008-01-14T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Strong endorsement for Tooke workforce review

    2008-01-09T17:04:04Z

    Proposals to scrutinise strategic health authorities' performance on workforce planning have won overwhelming endorsement from the NHS.

  • Comment

    All Our Yesterdays

    2008-01-09T10:35:55Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    Weird world health

    2008-01-09T10:30:59Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant: the operating framework

    2008-01-09T10:29:09Z

    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.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Reducing length of stay

    2007-12-19T12:55:44Z

    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 ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Creating the perfect acute hospital

    2007-12-18T12:32:47Z

    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