All Health Service Journal articles in 23 July 2009 – Page 3

  • News

    Cost of NHS growth revealed

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Government spending on public services such as education will need to be cut by as much as 4.5 per cent a year if politicians’ promises to give the NHS real terms growth are met.

  • Helen Crump
    Comment

    Media Watch: the shrill cries of the doomsayers

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Depending on which paper you read this week, you could be forgiven for thinking you were living in two different countries.

  • Lord Darzi's official leaving date may not be until the recess, but his Richmond House office looked pretty bare as HSJ passed it on the way to a briefing at the DH.
    Community

    Where's Darzi?

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi’s official leaving date may not be until the recess, but his Richmond House office looked pretty bare as HSJ passed it on the way to a briefing at the DH.

  • An "aspirational" strategy setting out the next 10 years of mental health policy has been welcomed despite a lack of detail on how it will be achieved.
    News

    New Horizons policy direction lauded despite missing details

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    An “aspirational” strategy setting out the next 10 years of mental health policy has been welcomed despite a lack of detail on how it will be achieved.

  • Health secretary Andy Burnham plans to change the law so ministers can instruct foundation trust regulator Monitor to intervene where organisations are failing.
    News

    Ministers to exert power over Monitor

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Andy Burnham plans to change the law so ministers can instruct foundation trust regulator Monitor to intervene where organisations are failing.

  • East Kent Hospitals University foundation trust took it all in its stride when a 13-year-old hawk turned up to visit patient Karen Pearson. Ms Pearson was missing the bird of prey, Belle, which belongs to her partner Bob Barlow, so a reunion in the hospit
    Community

    Flight of fancy

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Some NHS trusts get terribly wound up over visiting times, imposing strict restrictions on the numbers and ages of those who can see patients.

  • swine flu information leaflet
    News

    Swine flu survey: views from the front line

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Some of your responses to the HSJ and Nursing Times survey

  • Michael White
    Comment

    Michael White on the future of healthcare funding

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    For a politician in his situation, care services minister Phil Hope was in a remarkably cheerful mood when I caught up with him to find out how well - or badly - his department’s latest green paper had been received.

  • After being accused of being teetotal on Question Time, health secretary Andy Burnham will have been keen to prove otherwise at the Department of Health's annual drinks reception for journalists last week.
    Community

    Party piece

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    After being accused of being teetotal on Question Time, health secretary Andy Burnham will have been keen to prove otherwise at the Department of Health’s annual drinks reception for journalists last week.

  • When the religious beliefs of an NHS employee run contrary to trust policy, the result is often headline grabbing conflict. Louise Hunt looks at a modern day dilemma
    HSJ Knowledge

    The tension between religion and healthcare

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    When the religious beliefs of an NHS employee run contrary to trust policy, the result is often headline grabbing conflict. Louise Hunt looks at a modern day dilemma