All Health Service Journal articles in 20 September 2007 – Page 2
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HSJ Knowledge
Bipolar disorder 'shrinks brain'
Dr Andrew McIntosh, a Health Foundation clinician scientist and research fellow, has discovered thatpeople with bipolar disorder suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Thornton on engaging clinicians
'One of the most powerful motivating factors for clinicians to be involved in improving services is seeing its direct impact on the quality of patient care'
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HSJ Knowledge
Keele celebrates 20 years of health management
Celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Centre for Health Planning and Management next month, Keele University will be taking time out to reflect on past achievements and look to the centre's future.
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HSJ Knowledge
Money management
Reform and reorganisation in health services is not new. But arguably the most recent changes have had the most fundamental impact on the working lives of staff and there is increasing concern about the personal financial implications of these developments
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Comment
Heather Walker on clinical measures
'Death is only one outcome. As far as the NHS is concerned, very little is known about the other outcomes of those discharged from hospital. Do patients actually feel any better for the healthcare intervention they have just undergone?'
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News
New medics say abandon computerised job system
A junior doctors' group has called for a return to a paper-based, local recruitment system to fill thousands of specialty training posts in 2008.
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News
Call for comparable data across care services
All health and social care providers must publish comparable data and information, Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has said.
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News
Colleges back clinical case for specialist acute service centres
England's clinical leaders have backed moves to reconfigure specialist acute services - but urged caution over changes to the district general hospital.
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News
BMA U-turn on GP pay plan
The British Medical Association has distanced itself from proposed changes to GPs' pay that it jointly produced. It has argued that too many GPs will lose out under the proposals.
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Comment
Old-style GPs may go the same way as Britain's motor industry
‘Dr Buckman is in danger of doing for primary care what Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson did for the British motor industry in the 1970s’
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News
Unions launch next year's pay campaign
Unions are already pushing for a better pay deal for NHS staff next year after 'reluctantly' accepting this year's offer.
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News
Primary care inequalities to be Johnson's top focus
Health secretary Alan Johnson has pledged to put primary care at the centre of the government drive to improve the UK's health.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on facing up to diversity
'Her one-year-old's diet was two packets of crisps a day and a glass of milk'
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Leader
Time to come clean on the private sector
‘The role of independent providers under Gordon Brown is one of the most opaque areas of health policy’
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News
Private sector 'jaded' over contracts
The private sector is growing increasingly concerned that the government will row back on its plans to use independent healthcare providers to expand its NHS choice programme.
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News
Lib Dems: time to scrap PCTs
Primary care trusts should be scrapped and replaced with elected local health boards, the Liberal Democrats have proposed.
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Comment
Emma Dent at the dentist
'Half an hour later I would emerge bleary-eyed, in pain and incapable of eating for days'
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News
DoH publishes long-awaited review plan
The Department of Health has published its overdue plans to provide a better service following a damning government review.
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News
McNab to shake up DoH on public health
The Department of Health has brought in a former primary care trust chief executive to shake up performance on public health.
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News
'Patient engagement has flatlined'
The government's vision for a patient-centred NHS is a long way from becoming a reality, two major studies have claimed.
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