All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 49
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Michael White on the pay round
'The tough pay round is a blatant 'clawback' and I don't think doctors can expect much sympathy'
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Michael White on YouTube politics
'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'
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Michael White on the IT programme
Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach
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Michael White: the IT programme
'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'
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Media Watch: pay-offs
'Outrage at hospital trust's pay-off after spat' said The Sun, as it revealed 'debt-ridden' Eastbourne Downs primary care trust had paid off its former public health director to the tune of £250,000 after a 'spat' with a colleague.
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Media Watch: nurses protest
Avenging angels hit the headlines and the streets this weekend as they came out in force to protest at, among other things, a below-inflation pay rise.
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Media Watch: 'NHS penpushers'
'NHS penpushers are paid £1.5m for doing nothing' the Daily Mail told its readers as the tabloids frothed earlier this week over news that the Department of Health is paying £1.5m to civil servants whose jobs have been made redundant.
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Michael White: media spin
'Judicial review looms on the consultation process and voters don't need media spin to feel cheated'
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Media Watch: NHS meddling
'We're still waiting for Mr Brown to give any indication of what he might do to the NHS. Surely he won't be able to resist some meddling'
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Michael White: maternity woes
'For some, fertility issues are heart-breaking - not marginal NHS issues but utterly central to their lives'
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HSJ Knowledge
In the minds of managers
How do NHS leaders remain resilient in the face of mind-bending stress? Psychiatrist Raj Persaud talks with four top chief executives about the secrets behind their success
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on succession planning
My nine-year-old son was recruited this season to the local football league club's centre of excellence. His coaches exude knowledge, enthusiasm and a remarkable commitment to a part-time, barely rewarded, role. They spend much of their spare time watching local junior league matches. They also handle representations from ambitious parents, ...
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News
Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
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Comment
Michael White on policy leaks
You can imagine my distress on returning from foreign parts to discover that things have been going on in the political health arena behind my back, much of it driven by a succession of top-level leaks to this very magazine.
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News
Have a moan, you know you want to...
Hospital patients with a gripe were urged to speak up in a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of complaining.
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We will keep it local, says Scots minister
Scotland's cabinet secretary for health and well-being has announced the new executive government would take 'an assumption against centralisation of services'.
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Protestors slam IPPR reconfiguration report
An umbrella group of health workers, unions and patients opposed to privatisation and closure plans have rubbished Institute for Public Policy Research reconfiguration claims.
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Michael white on patient involvement
Some weeks ago a Labour MP, Patrick Hall, kindly invited me to a reception on the terrace of the House of Commons. Arriving late, I stood among the dissidents at the back as health minister Rosie Winterton explained her views on patient and public involvement in the NHS.
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News
Improvement notice for trust
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been served with an improvement notice after it became the first trust to fail to comply with the hygiene code.
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Michael White on hospital infections
HSJ's January scoop about the enduring problems with MRSA and Clostridium difficile yielded parliamentary fruit the other day in the shape of a Tory-initiated Commons debate in which this magazine received generous publicity. Excellent.