All Health Service Journal articles in 26 June 2008 – Page 4

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    Call for managers to improve NHS reputation

    2008-06-19T16:15:00Z

    NHS leaders must engage with their workforce, strengthen their communications and hold their hands up where mistakes have been made, the director of NHS communications has told delegates at the NHS Confederation conference.

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    Confed report looks at innovation in the NHS

    2008-06-19T16:05:00Z

    An NHS Confederation report published at the body’s annual conference examines changes and innovations that could redefine how the NHS works.

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    Web can worsen inequalities, Confed warned

    2008-06-19T15:10:00Z

    Web-based patient information initiatives can make health inequalities worse, delegates at the NHS Confederation conference were warned.

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    Embrace commissioning, Britnell urges Confed delegates

    2008-06-19T14:55:00Z

    Lord Darzi's next stage review will include exciting opportunities for commissioning staff, including freedoms based on those for foundation trusts, Department of Health director general of commissioning and system management Mark Britnell has told the NHS Confederation conference.

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    Pilot scheme aims to integrate health and social care

    2008-06-19T14:40:00Z

    An £11m pilot scheme creating systems to integrate health and social care assessment and planning is to be launched, delegates at the NHS Confederation annual conference have been told.

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    David Nicholson tells Confed chiefs to nurture leadership

    2008-06-19T14:35:00Z

    Every chief executive and board member needs to take responsibility for nurturing future leaders, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told the NHS Confederation conference.

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    FT governors must balance role, Confed hears

    2008-06-19T14:20:00Z

    The key to establishing a successful role for foundation trust governors is to strike a balance between a flexible and standardised governance structure, the chair of the Foundation Trust Governors' Association has told the NHS Confederation conference.

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    Managers raise concerns over new local assessments

    2008-06-19T13:10:00Z

    Primary care managers at the NHS Confederation annual conference have expressed concern about the lack of baseline data for some of the indicators they have chosen as part of the new comprehensive area assessment.

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    Invest in HR to save lives, managers told

    2008-06-19T11:20:00Z

    Chief executives at the NHS Confederation annual conference have been urged to promote human resources issues to reduce deaths and improve patient care.

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    Increase patient choice to control demand, Confed hears

    2008-06-19T11:10:00Z

    NHS Choices could be used to help manage demand for treatment, Department of Health director of system management and new enterprise Bob Ricketts has told the NHS Confederation annual conference.

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    Implement new technologies with care, trusts told

    2008-06-19T10:25:00Z

    Every trust should establish a technology planning committee to evaluate new technologies and consider their impact on the workforce and operation of the trust, attendees at the NHS Confederation annual conference have heard.

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    Managers urged to use time efficiently

    2008-06-19T09:55:00Z

    Senior leadership teams in the NHS could save more than 2,000 hours a year by making meetings more efficient, attendees at the NHS Confederation annual conference have heard.

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    Alan Johnson tells Confed: champion quality

    2008-06-18T17:33:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference, Mr Johnson said the 'overwhelming emphasis' of health minister Lord Darzi's next stage review would be on quality.

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    Confed votes Nye Bevan biggest NHS hero

    2008-06-18T17:14:00Z

    Nye Bevan has been voted the biggest 'NHS hero' by attendees at the NHS Confederation's most-attended conference yet.

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    Confed chair opens annual conference

    2008-06-18T16:39:00Z

    NHS managers must 'make the weather' in the health service themselves, rather than wait for it to be done to them, NHS Confederation chair Bryan Stoten told the body's annual conference in his opening address.

  • Comment

    This week's All Our Yesterdays

    2008-06-13T12:18:21Z

    Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, June 25 1948"The Minister would like to take this opportunity of expressing his appreciation of the work of joint vagrancy committees in recent years in the promotion of schemes for the reduction of vagrancy throughout the country," states the Ministry of Health ...

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    This week's lookey likey

    2008-06-13T12:15:09Z

    A lookey likey from a correspondent who wishes to be anonymous suggests Department of Health director general of NHS finance, performance and operations David Flory is a dead ringer for CSI Miami star David Caruso. What do readers think?

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    Simon Jones on NHS governance

    2008-06-13T09:00:00Z

    Not too long ago, the Welsh Assembly completed a governance review of all the trusts and local health boards in Wales. Initial reactions were, as ever, 'oh no, not another review'.