All Health Service Journal articles in 25 September 2008
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HSJ Knowledge
Sift through the ashes of smoking
Could the death toll have been lowered by offering nicotine replacement therapy on the NHS earlier? Emma Baines looks through the policy history of smoking cessation
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HSJ Knowledge
And the smoking ban played on
One year on Ann Shuttleworth considers the effects of the smoking bans in England and Scotland and other efforts to make people quit
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HSJ Knowledge
Stop-smoking case studies: quitters can win
Now the most motivated ex-smokers have stubbed out their last cigarette, Ingrid Torjesen finds out how services are reaching out to the less enthusiastic would-be quitters
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HSJ Knowledge
Giving up smoking is hard to do
How can stop smoking services attract people from ethnic minorities? NICE guidance may offer the answer, writes Rosie Cameron
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Blogs
Let's do away with nurses' stations
When are ward nurses going to surgically remove themselves from the nurses' station and increase their time with the patients?
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on caring for the whole patient
My 75-year-old father has recently had a coronary angiogram and been referred for bypass graft surgery. When I was a cardiology senior house officer in the Jurassic period, he would never have been referred for such surgery at this age.
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HSJ Knowledge
HIV services: caring for older patients
As people with HIV/AIDS live longer, services must adapt to meet the needs of more patients and the first generation of HIV-positive pensioners. Emma Dent reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Catching mental illness early
New primary care teams are helping to catch people early in the spectrum of mental illness. Stuart Shepherd explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Communicating major change in the NHS
How can you woo the workforce into embarking on change rather than alarm them with the unknown? Dominic Walters explains
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Supplements
Smoking supplement: fired up
Stopping smoking is the single most important thing smokers can do to improve their current and future health.
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Comment
Stephen Ramsden on harm to patients
Why is there no public outcry about the harm we cause patients in hospital? Or about the avoidable deaths that happen week in, week out?
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Comment
Jeremy Porteus on NHS networking
It was during the shoulder-padded, champers-quaffing decade of excess known as the 1980s that the term 'networking' became popular.
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HSJ Knowledge
Transformational leadership in a transformed NHS
To make patient care truly effective, all doctors need to develop the skills of transformational leadership, as Graham Neale explains
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Comment
John Coakley on the quest for medical leadership
There seems to be an increasing demand for clinical, and in particular medical, leadership. Lord Darzi's next stage review recommendations and the reviews of healthcare being conducted across strategic health authorities will not work without it.
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HSJ Partners
Improving inpatient mental health services
The Healthcare Commission review of acute inpatient care, Pathway to Recovery, marks a milestone in the ongoing effort to achieve a step change in the quality of inpatient mental health services.
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Blogs
The trouble with the Welsh NHS
You can't beat the Welsh, can you? Twenty-two Local Health Boards giving money via block contracts to about a dozen hospitals.
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Comment
Nicky Jonas on NHS volunteers abroad
Volunteering offers stressed-out NHS managers the chance to make a difference in the developing world and learn valuable new skills that can give them an edge when they return home.
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HSJ Partners
Paul Allen on the war for NHS talent
First the bad news. According to the chancellor of the exchequer, this country is experiencing the harshest economic conditions in 60 years. On a more upbeat note, GCSE and A-level results are at an all-time high and more young people than ever are going into higher education.
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Blogs
Moral hazard just too complicated, apparently
I have received feedback from two managers and my personal chief exec on my moral hazard blog.
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News
Charities support Labour on health interventionism
Charities and activists have told Labour not to shy away from tackling access to GP services and to ignore jibes about the 'nanny state'.