All Health Service Journal articles in 25 October 2007 – Page 3
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical networks - delivering world-class commissioning
Clinical networks have proven to be a valuable tool in delivering effective service provision and commissioning. Peter Melton explains
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HSJ Knowledge
New cardiac network website
Shropshireand Staffordshire cardiac network has launched its new website. It contains information about heart diseases and procedures, local services, and the network's activities.
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HSJ Knowledge
Cycle to work scheme booklet
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.
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HSJ Knowledge
Paul Allen on the will to succeed
Sports psychology teaches us that a positive attitude and self-belief are the keys to success
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News
ill health
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 ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Kate Silvester on managing staff, not parenting them
In a hierarchical NHS, how can managers help create a world of equals where everyone contributes?
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HSJ Knowledge
Raising organisational energy
Raising energy levels by just a small amount can yield great results for organisations, says Rupert Symons
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Comment
David Peat on ending the enslavement of health inequalities
Overcoming health inequalities that have built up over generations will take vision and determination
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating a viable national maternity service
Confidence in flexible community midwifery services should transform current reliance on acute settings, writes Marina Colville
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HSJ Knowledge
Foundation trusts applications: shape up or ship out
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
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HSJ Knowledge
David Amos on the Wanless report
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?
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News
Takeover not a good option, say chief execs
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 ...
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News
chief exec resigns
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 ...
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News
Barnet
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, ...
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News
new ambulance network
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 ...
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Scots NHS24
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 ...
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Comment
Weird world health
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 ...
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Comment
All Our Yesterdays
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 ...
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