All Health Service Journal articles in 24 April 2008 – Page 3

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    Bedside manna - a new ethos of care

    2008-04-23T09:00:00Z

    Martin Winbolt-Lewis advocates moving away from mechanistic approaches to patient care and embracing an empathetic, holistic approach to caring for people who are ill or injured

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    IT training in the health service

    2008-04-22T09:00:00Z

    As the healthcare industry replaces paper processes with electronic records, staff will need to adapt and learn new skills. Charlotte Weaver explains

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    New guidance on pandemic flu

    2008-04-22T09:00:00Z

    The NHS Networks pandemic flu page has been updated with several new guidance documents for acute hospitals, ambulance trusts, hospices and other health and care bodies.

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    Making strides in equality

    2008-04-22T09:00:00Z

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published its first single equality scheme.The programme lays out the practical steps the commission will take to promote equality and human rights in everything it does. The document will be the starting point for its three-year scheme, which will be developed in 2008-09.

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    NHS Networks - 500 and growing

    2008-04-22T09:00:00Z

    If you will excuse a little self-indulgent, self-congratulatory ballyhoo, NHS Networks has reached a significant milestone. This month we are three years old.

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    Joint working: passing the partnership test

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    PCTs and local authorities are now working even more closely on understanding the needs of local people in a leap forward in partnership working. By Renu Bindra

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    Restructuring: united for growth

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    The idea behind the UK's first academic health science centre is to combine research and service delivery. Ann McGauran met the team who sowed the seeds of its success

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    Patient involvement: how to be a good listener

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    A patient-led NHS - it's an often-heard phrase, but how many people actually know what it means and what needs to be done to put policy into practice?

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    Helen Bevan on workload liberation

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    Over the last decade, I have made many attempts (some documented in this column) to improve my personal work systems and processes but struggled to sustain them under the burden of a growing workload.

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    Raj Persaud on the art of seduction

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    Giacomo Casanova is perhaps the most famous seducer in history who, it is said, lured well over 100 women into bed. Although this Italian-born libertine lived several centuries ago, his techniques of seduction could hold a valuable lesson for the NHS.

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    Andrew Jones on the next big shift in healthcare

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    I often wonder what will drive the next quantum shift in healthcare. If we ran a poll today, world class commissioning or the Darzi review would probably top the list. These ideas are fine, but it seems to me that they represent an incremental nudge rather than a quantum shift.

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    Coaching: achieving office overhaul

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    Elizabeth McGuirk on how teasing out some underlying problems helped a development manager to 'bite the bullet' and involve her team in change plans

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    Doctors' leaders challenge GP pay deal

    2008-04-18T13:51:00Z

    British Medical Association chair Hamish Meldrum has written to health secretary Alan Johnson challenging the proposed pay deal for GPs.

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    Awards preview

    2008-04-16T09:58:49Z

    Reducing Health Inequalities sponsored by the Department of HealthWhen East Lancashire primary care trust's Accident Prevention project won the Reducing Health Inequalities category, the team didn’t just collect the award for themselves. Janet West, integrated service delivery manager explains:"We entered because we wanted to highlight the commitment at an organisational ...

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    This week's All Our Yesterdays

    2008-04-15T17:06:40Z

    23 April 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital ReviewFrom an article on the care and dressing of wounds:"A surgical nurse’s hands should be kept in good condition by being thoroughly dried after each washing and by the use of a good hand cream that will prevent cracks and ...

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    This week's lookey likey

    2008-04-15T17:05:29Z

    Apparently BBC radio and TV presenter Adrian Charles purports that he is often mistaken for survival expert Ray Mears. Surely some mistake, we hear you cry - surely Mr Chiles strikes a closer resemblance to consultant, leadership guru and HSJ columnist Neil Goodwin? While being obliged to watch Match of ...

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    A free ride?

    2008-04-10T11:35:27Z

    Results and recommendations from the 2008 Spokes NHS Bicycle Mileage Survey

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    Paediatric care pathways

    2008-04-10T11:13:32Z

    TheCoventryand Warwickshire Maternity Services Network Group has developed three paediatric care pathways, for children with acute, life changing and life limiting conditions. Documents describing the pathways are now available to download from the Group's page in the NHS Networkshttp://www.networks.nhs.uk/cwmsng