All Health Service Journal articles in 26 July 2012 – Page 6
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SupplementsChange of heart: a special report on stroke
This special report on stroke looks at the future of stroke prevention, the education of medical staff about the use of anticoagulants and how one trust redesigned the pathway to tackle the risk of stroke.
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SupplementsMountain to climb - an HSJ QIPP supplement
This QIPP supplement looks at medicines management, service improvement, innovation and commissioning to examine whether GP commissioners can deliver the savings the NHS needs.
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NewsEaston: we must tackle cost-cutting masked as efficiency
The NHS’s efficiency chief has warned some health economies are resorting to simple cost-cutting rather than finding genuine efficiency savings and carrying through major service reconfiguration.
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HSJ KnowledgeEnding society's dementia silence
A sustained constructive focus will help to positively change societal attitude
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CommentMichael White: the ever-shifting 'responsibility' of drink
Action is stifled by a failure to grasp the economics or morality of alcohol.
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HSJ KnowledgeAn under-the-lens examination
The quality governance framework must be used properly in trusts’ self-assessment
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CommentMichael Rawlins: playing fair on treatments
A few weeks ago, Steve Winyard, head of policy and campaigns at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), asked to see me.
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NewsRoom for manoeuvre on public health funding formula
Controversial proposals for distributing public health funding that would see a major transfer of resources from poor to rich areas could yet be significantly changed, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe 'medic to manager' move
The NHS’s divide between clinical leaders and management must be closed
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HSJ Partners
Good news for rail - how about our roads?
Last week’s funding news has wider implications, writes Alexander Jan.
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NewsPatients waiting longer to see GP - Labour
Patients are being forced to wait for as long as three weeks to see their GP after practices have reduced their evening and weekend appointments, Labour said.
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CommentReaders' letters - 26 July 2012
Supply and demandYour article, New workforce chief promises staff flexibility, wrongly suggests there has in the past been an “oversupply” of physiotherapists.This is not the case. Short term NHS financial freezes restricted opportunities for new physio graduates for a brief time, prompting cuts of around a third in training places ...
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SupplementsThe clever solution to smart device security
Advertorial: healthcare professionals are increasingly using smartphones and tablets for work purposes
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HSJ Local
South Tyne FT struggling to recruit members
STRUCTURE: Membership of South Tyneside FT has fallen, with the trust struggling to recruit in Gateshead and Sunderland, shows a report to the trust’s Council of Governors.
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HSJ Local
Cluster asks for £11.4m to bailout NHS Croydon
FINANCE: NHS South West London has approached NHS London to ask for £11.4m to support NHS Croydon.
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HSJ Local
South Tyne FT 'outstanding' on infection control
PERFORMANCE: South Tyneside FT reported “outstanding” performance on infection control in 2011-12 in an annual quality review.
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HSJ Local
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust aiming for £14.4m savings
FINANCE: Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust plans to make savings of £14.42m over the next five years.
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HSJ Local
Cluster could delay GP funding redistribution to avoid 'destabilising' practices
FINANCE: NHS South West London might delay a redistribution of Personal Medical Services funding to avoid “destabilising” practices in Wandsworth and Croydon.