All Health Service Journal articles in 23 August 2007 – Page 3

  • News

    Acutes slipping on A&E target

    2007-08-23T11:34:00Z

    An increasing number of hospital trusts are moving further away from the Department of Health's high-profile accident and emergency waiting time target.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Myth-buster: they choose or you lose

    2007-08-23T11:33:00Z

    Never mind what the sceptics say, patient choice is a powerful policy that will make or break providers, says Stephen Black

  • News

    Director resigns

    2007-08-23T11:29:00Z

    Dr Frank Margison, medical director at the troubled Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust, has stepped down from his post.

  • Comment

    Media Watch

    2007-08-23T10:46:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    Michael White on politics

    2007-08-23T10:45:00Z

    'No-one blew the whistle hard enough when the new processes started looking flawed'

  • News

    In this week's HSJ

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    GPs' fading popularity could hurt Tories

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    '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'

  • News

    Exclusive: Mental health killings investigation

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The evolution of informatics

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    Understanding information management systems is a key part of career progression, explain Kate Marsden and Jean Gilbert

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The long engagement

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    A new initiative is aiming to secure a future where medics embrace management. A sound plan or wild optimism? Louise Hunt reports

  • Comment

    Simon Stevens on junior doctors

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    'Junior doctors have in some respects been their own worst enemy'

  • Comment

    Emma Dent

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    Warm autumns that fool plants into thinking it is spring, daffodils flowering in February, bears that refuse to hibernate because it is not cold enough.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Management training hits award-winning heights

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    The Graduate Management Training Scheme has reaffirmed its position as a sought-after career path with two prestigious awards

  • HSJ Knowledge

    David Amos on the changing world of work

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Public health trends August 2007

    2007-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Warning for 'optimistic' foundations

    2007-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Foundation trusts could see one of their freedoms curtailed if they continue to make 'overly optimistic' predictions about their performance.

  • News

    Conducting post-murder inquiries: DoH recommendations

    2007-08-22T00:00:00Z

    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.'

  • News

    Case study: Michael Stone's murder of Lin and Megan Russell

    2007-08-22T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Case study: John Barrett's manslaughter of Denis Finnegan

    2007-08-22T00:00:00Z

    John Barrett attacked 50-year-old Denis Finnegan on 2 September 2004, stabbing him to death as he cycled through Richmond Park.

  • News

    Unresolved inquiries - breakdown by strategic health authority

    2007-08-22T00:00:00Z

    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.