All Health Service Journal articles in 23 August 2007
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HSJ Knowledge
Become the third man's best friend
Allowing the third sector a greater input in shaping local services can make for better results, argue Paul Hopley and colleagues
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on the principles of success
'Organisations that do not have a culture in which open discussion is encouraged will bury their mistakes and not learn from them'
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News
Unresolved inquiries - breakdown by strategic health authority
Hsj.co.uk's investigation found there are 27 outstanding cases where recommendations following a murder or manslaughter by a mental health patient have not yet been fully implemented.
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News
Case study: John Barrett's manslaughter of Denis Finnegan
John Barrett attacked 50-year-old Denis Finnegan on 2 September 2004, stabbing him to death as he cycled through Richmond Park.
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News
Case study: Michael Stone's murder of Lin and Megan Russell
On 9 July 1996, Lin Russell and her two daughters Megan, six, and Josie, nine, were attacked by a man with a hammer while walking down a Kent country lane.
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News
Conducting post-murder inquiries: DoH recommendations
Department of health guidance issued in January 2005 states: 'The start of local investigation processes and publication of reports should take place as soon as possible.'
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News
Warning for 'optimistic' foundations
Foundation trusts could see one of their freedoms curtailed if they continue to make 'overly optimistic' predictions about their performance.
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HSJ Knowledge
Public health trends August 2007
August sees a drop in confidence over the target to halt the rise in childhood obesity, according to the latest Barometer of public health directors, with June’s figure of 3.25 dipping to 2.91 out of 10.
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HSJ Knowledge
David Amos on the changing world of work
A leading psychiatrist in the 1920s identified potential developments in pharmaceutical products as the means to end all mental illness. There was a time when orthopaedics appeared to be a very limited specialty, before scientists came up with the artificial implant. Medicine continually confounds the soothsayers.Labour market commentators spoke 20 ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Management training hits award-winning heights
The Graduate Management Training Scheme has reaffirmed its position as a sought-after career path with two prestigious awards
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Comment
Simon Stevens on junior doctors
'Junior doctors have in some respects been their own worst enemy'
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HSJ Knowledge
The long engagement
A new initiative is aiming to secure a future where medics embrace management. A sound plan or wild optimism? Louise Hunt reports
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HSJ Knowledge
The evolution of informatics
Understanding information management systems is a key part of career progression, explain Kate Marsden and Jean Gilbert
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News
Exclusive: Mental health killings investigation
Failings in the care of mental health patients convicted of murder or manslaughter are regularly taking up to five years to put right, an investigation by hsj.co.uk has revealed.
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Comment
GPs' fading popularity could hurt Tories
'Not so long ago, local family doctors were running a close third to apple pie and motherhood in the list of safe things for politicians to support'
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News
In this week's HSJ
NewsLeading cardiac surgeon and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed as the Department of Health's medical director, HSJ has learnt.The government has announced it will begin using payment by results to drive choice. The system, which was designed to standardise the cost ...
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'No-one blew the whistle hard enough when the new processes started looking flawed'
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Comment
Media Watch
Managers could breathe a sigh of relief this week as the glare of the media spotlight was focusing on money-grabbing GPs as opposed to bureaucrats.
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News
Director resigns
Dr Frank Margison, medical director at the troubled Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust, has stepped down from his post.