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

  • News

    Darzi reforms under threat in London

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    Poor leadership in NHS organisations is threatening to jeopardise Lord Darzi's vision to transform the capital's healthcare.NHS London board papers state it is 'likely' there will be 'insufficient leadership capacity and capability in primary care trusts and allied NHS organisations' to deliver the now junior health minister's plans.

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    HSJ Knowledge

    Mapping data

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    The saying, ‘a picture paints a thousand words’, is never more accurate than in the context of maps. Maps are unrivalled in their power to make geographical data more comprehensible.

  • Leader

    Welsh health service set on different path

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    Proposals to abolish the internal market, end the purchaser provider split and fund services from the centre are setting Wales' health service on a different course from the rest of the UK.

  • Comment

    Michael White on disease politics

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    I was reading a book about politicians and their illnesses when news broke that John Prescott has suffered from bulimia, what some newspapers were unkind enough to call a girl's illness.

  • News

    Rare disease priorities

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    John Murray of the Specialised Healthcare Alliance raises a number of spectres around treatments for rare diseases, without discussing the underlying principles of prioritisation, writes Jonathan Howell

  • News

    Scottish doctors to vote on no-confidence motion

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    Scottish GPs are set to consider a vote of no confidence in the UK government's stewardship of the NHS.

  • News

    Trusts encouraged to foster patient loyalty

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    NHS trusts that do not grasp marketing opportunities in this era of free patient choice risk becoming 'sink hospitals, withering on the vine', marketing experts have warned.

  • News

    Exclusive GP practices are unacceptable

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    I am sure your article 'NHS funds exclusive GP practices' will make local people and the public very angry, writes Karen Jennings

  • News

    Government firm on pay offer in face of threats

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    The government has made it clear it will not back down over NHS pay, despite threats of industrial action.

  • News

    London must focus on prevention

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    Service reform in the capital must go beyond Healthcare for London proposals and focus on prevention if fatal strokes are to be avoided, the London health observatory has warned.

  • Comment

    Your Humble Servant at the FT

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: FT fantastic

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Patient satisfaction - how do you score?

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    An area's population profile shapes patients' perceptions of service quality, with greater diversity bringing a wider array of demands. This suggests trusts should make more effort to understand their public

  • News

    Induction programme for non-executives

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    This month, the Appointments Commission launches its new 12-month induction programme for chairs and non-executives.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: polyclinic row

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    The polyclinic row stepped up a gear this week as the Tories launched a 'campaign to save the family doctor', warning more than 1,700 GP surgeries could close.

  • News

    PCTs plan to recruit public members to shape reform

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts could link up with foundations by sharing public membership bodies that drive local health priorities. PCTs are considering recruiting public members to counter perceptions they are undemocratic and overly centralised.

  • News

    Will IT systems work for polyclinics?

    2008-04-24T09:00:00Z

    The NHS care records service was always intended to enable information to be provided when and where needed, irrespective of care setting, writes Jeremy Thorp

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Understanding the Health and Social Care Bill

    2008-04-25T09:00:00Z

    John Witt and David Firth explain the changes that trusts can expect when the new Health and Social Care Bill comes into effect later this year

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Improving outcome measurement

    2008-04-25T09:00:00Z

    Embedding routine outcome measurement in an organisation's work benefits staff and patients. Farah Khalid explains