All Health Service Journal articles in 17 July 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the floor: neuroscience services
Jon Sussman is a consultant neurologist at Salford Royal foundation trust and one of the team at the hospital's neuroscience integrated clinical assessment and treatment service, which is helping to save time and money
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Comment
Andrew Jones on topping up NHS care
The government's announcement that it plans to review co-payments and whether they should be allowed in the NHS surprised me because it asks the wrong question.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data collection: Big Brother isn't watching you
Health information has not kept pace with population change. Ruth Thorlby and Veena Raleigh look at efforts to improve collection
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HSJ Knowledge
How HR can bring the house down
In the NHS, backstage functions like human resources must adapt if they are to keep pace with the changing demands of service users, says Chris Roebuck
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Comment
Stephen Ramsden on cultural revolutions
There is often talk about changing the culture of NHS organisations. But no matter how well leaders articulate their big plans, if we do not focus on the microsystems in our organisations we are unlikely to see real behaviour change.
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HSJ Knowledge
Deaths data: under threat
The national confidential inquiries into why patients die have saved lives, but funding problems now threaten their own survival. Rebecca Norris looks at their prospects
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HSJ Knowledge
Julia Tybura on new NHS values
I am proud Zenon has reached the ripe old age (in consultancy years) of 10 and I am delighted that at last month's NHS Confederation conference we had many clients, colleagues and friends celebrating with us.
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HSJ Knowledge
Information Centre publishes staff earnings estimates
The NHS Information Centre has published its latest estimates of NHS staff earnings. The estimates are based on earnings between January and March 2008 and are compared with estimates from the same period in 2007.
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HSJ Knowledge
Making clinical leadership happen
Education and training are key components of Lord Darzi's plans to increase clinical leadership in the NHS. Ingrid Torjesen explains how the clinical landscape will change
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Comment
Simon Fradd on Darzi vs the GPs
Sixty years ago, the medical profession took on Nye Bevan and lost - are we about to do the same thing again?
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HSJ Knowledge
Darzi's vision - towards a quality-obsessed NHS
Under Lord Darzi's recently published plans for the health service, clinicians will lead the charge to top-quality care. Ingrid Torjesen explains
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Comment
Richard Craven on how Darzi will improve access
Lord Darzi's review of the NHS heralds a new era of innovation in healthcare, and with it the tools and opportunities to reach out to patients who are disengaged from health services.
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HSJ Partners
Paul Allen on failure breeding success
Having recently returned from a frustrating day's skiing, I was regaling a friend with my experiences over dinner. He asked me how my day had been.
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Comment
Alyson Morley on the push for polyclinics
Do polyclinics spell the end of the patient-doctor relationship in favour of faceless big business intrusion into health services? Or are they the must-have health facility of the future?
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News
Royal colleges call talks to confront academy failings
A 'crisis meeting' has been called over the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' future amid infighting between member organisations.
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News
Health 2.0 empowers plugged-in patients
Consumers are well ahead of the health service in using the web, with patient opinion leaders emerging in many disease areas. Should the NHS engage the public in online dialogue, asks Daloni Carlisle
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News
Healthcare 100: staff's chance to vote for top employers
Health service staff have the chance to rate their employer in a major new set of awards launched this week.
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Leader
Will you be in the Healthcare 100 club?
This week HSJ, with our sister title Nursing Times and NHS Employers, launches the Healthcare 100, which aims to identify the 100 best healthcare employers in the country.
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News
£300m fund to tackle end of life care skills shortage
The Department of Health has unveiled nearly £300m of funding for end of life care and told strategic health authorities to resolve significant skills shortages among staff working in the sector.
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HSJ Knowledge
Diamond 60 life
I was delighted to see my former boss (and friend) John Yates included in the Diamond Sixty list of the most influential people in the NHS.