All Health Service Journal articles in 21 February 2008 – Page 3

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Career Path: rising to the top

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management

  • News

    Career Path: rising to the top

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    Dr Simon Eccles talks to Stuart Shepherd about his path from medical school to a variety of roles in NHS management

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The role of the Information Centre for health and social care

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    The need for high-quality, timely information is greater than ever in the health service, as Information Centre chief executive Tim Straughan explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The role of the Information Centre for health and social care

    2008-02-19T09:00:00Z

    The need for high-quality, timely information is greater than ever in the health service, as Information Centre chief executive Tim Straughan explains

  • News

    self-certification reviews

    2008-02-18T17:17:32Z

    Foundation trusts must accurately "self-certify" on all healthcare targets under a system which allows them to monitor their own performance or risk "significant financial and regulatory penalites", Monitor has warned.In December the regulator decided to scrutinise 11 foundation trusts which had failed to hit performance targets they had claimed they ...

  • News

    Career changes will turn nurses into 'handmaidens', say unions

    2008-02-18T09:39:45Z

    Nurses will become mere “handmaidens” who lack leadership skills under planned changes to nursing careers, unions have warned. The Department of Health’s consultation on post-registration nursing careers, which ended last Friday, proposed moving away from early specialisation, with nurses instead working in five shorter term “pathways” such as mental health ...

  • Comment

    Neil Goodwin on building working relationships

    2008-02-18T09:00:00Z

    What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.

  • Comment

    Neil Goodwin on building working relationships

    2008-02-18T09:00:00Z

    What do teenage children, marriage and friendships have in common when thinking about work? They all offer excellent opportunities for developing relationship skills in the workplace.

  • Comment

    Clean record

    2008-02-15T17:22:46Z

    Media Watch reported that according to the Mail on Sunday, NHS North East spent £150,000 on cardboard nurses.

  • Comment

    Failure to assess

    2008-02-15T17:19:17Z

    Congratulations for highlighting out-of-area assessments for mental healthcare. This problem is not confined to people needing to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, writes Linda Davidson

  • Comment

    Proud of our A&E

    2008-02-15T17:15:29Z

    I was pleased Emma Dent had a positive experience in accident and emergency, but she did not name the trust. So, on Emma's behalf, I just wanted to thank the hard-working staff who treated her colleague at UCLH.

  • Comment

    BMA will fight

    2008-02-15T17:13:25Z

    It is not the BMA which is 'grossly misrepresenting' the argument over GP opening hours. It is the government's campaign of misinformation, inaccurate media reporting and misleading articles such as Richard Vize's blinkered editorial, writes Robert Morley

  • Comment

    Is it reasonable to audit GPs' hours?

    2008-02-15T17:09:52Z

    Far from 'standing between patients and a better service' over longer GP opening hours, the British Medical Association has said most GPs would offer appointments in extended hours, writes Richard Vautrey

  • News

    minimum gp core hours

    2008-02-15T13:22:29Z

    The Department of Health has no plans to set a minimum number of consulting hours GP practices should provide during their contracted core hours. As the government plans to set a minimum threshold for hours practices must be available for appointments outside the hours of 8am to 6.30pm Monday to ...

  • News

    PCTs 'would gain power by a constitution'

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    An NHS constitution would address the 'woefully inadequate' relationship between commissioners and patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has claimed.

  • News

    Primary care leaders call GP resistance 'unhelpful'

    2008-02-14T09:00:00Z

    Primary care leaders have joined the argument over extended hours after GPs warned they may refuse to take part in local audits on opening times.

  • Comment

    All Our Yesterdays

    2008-02-12T15:46:57Z

    February 20, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review A letter issued on behalf of ten trade unions and organisations states that they have learned that moves are being made to launch a new organisation…The National Federation of Hospital Officers. The majority of hospital officers (states the letter) ...

  • Comment

    This week's lookey likey

    2008-02-12T15:44:17Z

    Reader Peter Munday of Mersey Care trust writes: 'Before he (Rhydian that is), fades into obscurity, I feel I have to point out the astounding similarity between Rhydian Roberts of runner up in TV talent show X-Factor fame and David Dalton, the chief executive of Salford Royal foundation trust.'We agree ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Franklin Oikelome and Ronny Flynn on the NHS equality record

    2008-01-30T12:22:03Z

    The NHS is the largest single employer in the UK, employing over a million people. Since its inception, it has relied on a workforce with a high proportion of black and minority ethnic staff, many of whom were actively recruited in the 1950s and 1960s to pioneer the new health ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Out of the picture

    2008-01-29T14:22:45Z

    The NHS is still dragging its feet on race equality, especially in top posts. So will the relaunched Breaking Through programme kick-start the revolution, asks Caroline White