All Health Service Journal articles in 24 April 2008 – Page 3
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Bedside manna - a new ethos of care
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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HSJ Knowledge
IT training in the health service
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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HSJ Partners
New guidance on pandemic flu
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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HSJ Knowledge
Making strides in equality
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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HSJ Partners
NHS Networks - 500 and growing
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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HSJ Knowledge
Joint working: passing the partnership test
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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HSJ Knowledge
Restructuring: united for growth
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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HSJ Knowledge
Patient involvement: how to be a good listener
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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Comment
Helen Bevan on workload liberation
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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Comment
Raj Persaud on the art of seduction
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
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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News
Coaching: achieving office overhaul
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
British Medical Association chair Hamish Meldrum has written to health secretary Alan Johnson challenging the proposed pay deal for GPs.
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Comment
Awards preview
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
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
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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HSJ Knowledge
A free ride?
Results and recommendations from the 2008 Spokes NHS Bicycle Mileage Survey
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HSJ Knowledge
Paediatric care pathways
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
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