All Health Service Journal articles in 24 January 2008
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Weird world health
All hail the Darwin Awards, the annual celebration of those 'who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it.' Winners of the 2007 awards include a Texan man who died after giving himself an enema made up of two 1.5 litre bottles of sherry and a young couple fromSouth ...
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Frank Burns on politicians, short cuts and dead ends
Those of us interested in the genesis of high-profile national policy will have enjoyed the revelation, on Radio 4's Wiring the NHS programme, that in 2002 Sir John Pattison, then responsible Director for NHS IT, was given all of 10 minutes to make a pitch to the then prime minister ...
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Unpeeled - the NHS's top bananas
The 'terse' mail between two health leaders exemplifies a problem that has become ubiquitous in health partnerships, writes Woody Caan
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Fair play, please
Liver patients are far too often the victims of stereotypes about self-inflicted illness and being unworthy of NHS treatment and we can really do without Michael White adding to this, writes Imogen Shillito
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Andrew Alonzi on legal requirements of the Mental Health Act
When the Mental Health Act 2007 is fully introduced, the existing Mental Health Act 1983 treatability test will be replaced by a new appropriate medical treatment test.
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Age-appropriate mental healthcare - making strides
Services for children and teenagers have long been neglected but extra funds - and a drive to keep these users off adult wards - are positive steps, says Mark Gould
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Mental health professions - whose job is it anyway?
New professional roles that have come with the Mental Health Act 2007 have been broadly welcomed, despite continuing debate about other opportunities that have been missed. Stuart Shepherd explains
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Helen Bevan on the productive theatre
Hot on the heels of the successful Productive Ward, the NHS Institute has begun the Productive Operating Theatre programme in response to great demand.
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Nursing: reality check for diversity
The Diversity Champions programme aims to turn good intentions into good practice, as Wendy Irwin explains
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David Peat on getting world class commissioning right
Call them benchmarks, standards or targets, it is no bad thing to have aspirations and the will to achieve. It is also good to be put on the spot sometimes, to help streamline the process and refine best practice.
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Will community treatment orders work?
Compulsory treatment orders are on their way but critics claim there is a worrying lack of evidence that they can help 'revolving door' patients, writes Mark Gould
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Workplace health trainers
'Ambassadors' in the workplace are being equipped to promote healthier lives. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then
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Jenny Rogers on skilful networking
A true leadership role involves sensing weak signals from a messy and complex environment, building relationships through informal coalitions across departments and organisations and learning to sell ideas to peers
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Business improvement qualification helps lean champions aim higher
Airedale trust's lean champions have earned national vocational qualifications in business improvement techniques, helping them in their drive to eliminate wasteful practices and enhance patient care.
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All-parliamentary group discusses patient safety
Health minister Ann Keen used her background in nursing to give a personal account of her approach to improving hospital safety at December's meeting of the all-parliamentary group on patient safety.
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Health Foundation leadership awards
The importance of leadership in making hospitals safer and increasing their quality of care has never been more prominent.
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Career Path: making health second nature
Working at the Met Office and Natural England has helped one GP hone his management skills. Here, he charts his career path, explains what he has learned along the way and gives advice to those interested in similar roles
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Gillian Hastings on a patient safety revolution
Working in quality improvement, we hear constant sound bites about the need to change the organisational culture in healthcare and develop a culture of patient safety. But what does this change involve and how can we help bring it about?
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Teaming up for patient safety
Torbay Hospital, part of South Devon Healthcare trust, is on course to cut its MRSA rates in half for 2007.Torbay is part of the Health Foundation's safer patients initiative and is twinned with Musgrove Park Hospital, based in Taunton and Somerset trust.