All Health Service Journal articles in 25 October 2007 – Page 3

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Clinical networks - delivering world-class commissioning

    2007-10-23T09:00:00Z

    Clinical networks have proven to be a valuable tool in delivering effective service provision and commissioning. Peter Melton explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    New cardiac network website

    2007-10-23T09:00:00Z

    Shropshireand Staffordshire cardiac network has launched its new website. It contains information about heart diseases and procedures, local services, and the network's activities.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Cycle to work scheme booklet

    2007-10-23T09:00:00Z

    The London NHS travel plan network has published a guide to the government’s cycle to work scheme in collaboration with the London Cycling Campaign. The scheme provides employees with tax-free loans to purchase bikes for commuting to work. The booklet includes a list of trusts currently operating the scheme.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Paul Allen on the will to succeed

    2007-10-23T09:00:00Z

    Sports psychology teaches us that a positive attitude and self-belief are the keys to success

  • News

    ill health

    2007-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Trusts will take on a greater financial burden when workers retire early due to ill health, under proposals launched this week by NHS Employers and trade unions. A three-month consultation is taking place on the proposals, which aim to give employers greater incentives for reducing sickness absence and ill health ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Kate Silvester on managing staff, not parenting them

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    In a hierarchical NHS, how can managers help create a world of equals where everyone contributes?

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Raising organisational energy

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    Raising energy levels by just a small amount can yield great results for organisations, says Rupert Symons

  • Comment

    David Peat on ending the enslavement of health inequalities

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    Overcoming health inequalities that have built up over generations will take vision and determination

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Creating a viable national maternity service

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    Confidence in flexible community midwifery services should transform current reliance on acute settings, writes Marina Colville

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Foundation trusts applications: shape up or ship out

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    The deadline for all acute trusts to apply for foundation status by 2008 has proved unrealistic. What now for those that have not made the leap? Helen Mooney reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    David Amos on the Wanless report

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    Six years have passed since the publication of Sir Derek Wanless's interim report on the long-term view for the NHS. What has changed since then?

  • News

    Takeover not a good option, say chief execs

    2007-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Chiefs executives at the worst-performing trusts identified by the annual health check have hit back at the threat of takeover.Health secretary Alan Johnson has asked health service chief executive David Nicholson to urgently meet the four rated weak’in both quality of services and use of resources for the second year ...

  • News

    chief exec resigns

    2007-10-22T00:00:00Z

    David Law, the chief executive of troubled West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust, has resigned in the wake of its poor annual health check performance.The trust was one of four that failed to move up from 'weak' ratings in both quality of services and use of resources.Mr Law was appointed chief executive ...

  • News

    Barnet

    2007-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health trust has left the trust after less than three months in the job, HSJ has learnt.Interim chief executive Martin Brown, who is an associate director at consultancy firm Mental Health Strategies and former head of health at the Audit Commission, ...

  • News

    new ambulance network

    2007-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The ambulance service is gaining greater ‘political clout’ through a new NHS Confederation network. The network will combine the Ambulance Service Association, which represents trusts, with the NHS Confederation’s ambulance forum. The merger is intended to turn the ambulance service into a more powerful voice in the NHS in line ...

  • News

    Scots NHS24

    2007-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The troubled Scottish telephone helpline NHS 24 has lost its third boss in three years, this time after less than six months in post. Sandy Forrest, a former deputy police constable, stepped down last week. A statement said he had joined NHS 24 with a number of external commitments and ...

  • Comment

    Weird world health

    2007-10-17T00:00:00Z

    You never know what you've got til it's gone. As one Mark Smith of Newtown, south Wales, has found out after being banned under an Asbo from entering any NHS premises in the UK. Singularly capable of wrecking any trust's attemtps to meet the four hour A&E target, Mr Smith ...

  • Comment

    All Our Yesterdays

    2007-10-17T00:00:00Z

    October 24, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewBoard of Trade information regarding the number of coupons that had to be surrendered for the purchase of uniforms to be worn by civilians was published this week.‘As uniform wearers do save on their non uniform clothing, they will be ...