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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Workplace health trainers

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    'Ambassadors' in the workplace are being equipped to promote healthier lives. Lynne Greenwood reports

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    Will community treatment orders work?

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    David Peat on getting world class commissioning right

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    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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    Nursing: reality check for diversity

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    The Diversity Champions programme aims to turn good intentions into good practice, as Wendy Irwin explains

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    Helen Bevan on the productive theatre

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    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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    Mental health professions - whose job is it anyway?

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    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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    Age-appropriate mental healthcare - making strides

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    Andrew Alonzi on legal requirements of the Mental Health Act

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    Fair play, please

    2008-01-18T11:54:25Z

    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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    Unpeeled - the NHS's top bananas

    2008-01-18T11:52:00Z

    The 'terse' mail between two health leaders exemplifies a problem that has become ubiquitous in health partnerships, writes Woody Caan

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    Frank Burns on politicians, short cuts and dead ends

    2008-01-16T10:44:40Z

    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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    Weird world health

    2008-01-16T10:41:53Z

    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 ...