All Health Service Journal articles in 22 May 2008 – Page 3

  • HSJ Partners

    Leadership Fellows scheme opens for the last time

    2008-05-20T09:00:00Z

    The Health Foundation's Leadership Fellows scheme is open for applications. This is the last chance for health professionals with the potential to significantly improve the quality of health services in the UK to undertake almost two years of personal and professional development, free of charge.

  • HSJ Partners

    Using communication to improve patient safety

    2008-05-20T09:00:00Z

    Effective communication in hospitals is vital to save lives and ensure patients receive the best care. Clinicians and managers alike should work to hone their skills in this area, as Liza Coffin explains

  • Comment

    Keith Pearson on non-executive champions

    2008-05-20T09:00:00Z

    If I were asked to describe the role of non-executive directors in the NHS succinctly, I could do it in two words - local champions.

  • HSJ Partners

    Improving survival rates for heart attack patients

    2008-05-20T09:00:00Z

    Yorkshire Ambulance Service medical director Alison Walker is a Health Foundation Leadership Fellow. She has been working on a project to redesign ambulance services to deliver faster and higher-quality care for people who have had a heart attack, resulting in increased survival rates.

  • HSJ Partners

    Developing the annual health check

    2008-05-20T09:00:00Z

    The Health Foundation has used learning from its safer patients initiative to advise on methodology that could be used when assessing whether acute trusts are complying with the hygiene code.

  • News

    Darzi review: NHS South Central to tackle health inequalities

    2008-05-19T17:44:00Z

    NHS South Central has pledged to work to reduce massive variations in life expectancy and access to services.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Patient safety survey: those in peril

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    An HSJ poll has uncovered widespread under-reporting of safety failures, while national monitoring processes need a major overhaul. Charlotte Santry looks at the results

  • News

    Pension help for volunteers

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    Health workers who volunteer their skills overseas need not lose out on building their pensions, due to a new government support fund. Patricia Sloan explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Self-harm services: help with the pain

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    An award-winning service earns the confidence of people who self-harm with empathetic care. Stuart Shepherd reports on how it is improving the lives of vulnerable people

  • Comment

    Hilary Thomas on changing healthcare

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    The past year has been one of huge transition for me, professionally and personally. I have phased out seeing patients and crossed to the dark side, which has been a stimulating and steep learning curve.

  • Comment

    Jenny Rogers on finding the right career

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    Reading reviews of Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese's film on the Rolling Stones, is fascinating, especially if you spent your most rewarding parent-taunting moments playing the music of such obvious bad boys.

  • Comment

    Helen Bevan on implementing Darzi

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    What will it take to deliver the recommendations of Lord Darzi's next stage review?

  • News

    Career coaching: work-life balance

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    Jayne Nicholas helps a project manager combine an ambitious work move with her more personal aims and commitments

  • Comment

    This week's All Our Yesterdays

    2008-05-14T11:03:09Z

    Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review,May 21 1948On hospitals in the new national health service: “Up to now there has been, perhaps, a tendency for those concerned with the development of the national hospital service to think of it too much as consisting of more or less ...

  • Comment

    Awards previews

    2008-05-14T10:00:18Z

    Clinical Service Redesign sponsored by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement"We had bottlenecks for almost everything we were trying to provide as a service," says Dr Jon Sussman, consultant neurologist at the Greater Manchester Neuroscience centre, Salford Royal Foundation trust. "Essentially we improved things by teaming up with Salford ...