All Health Service Journal articles in 27 September 2007 – Page 3
-
HSJ Knowledge
Role of diabetes networks in prevention of type 2 diabetes
Nearly two-thirds of type 2 diabetes cases could be prevented, according to research, making prevention of the condition a key priority for the NHS.
-
Comment
Medical secretaries play a key role in the NHS
Media reports on problems in the NHS are mainly centred on the plight of medical and nursing staff and the way patient care is affected.However, there is a knock-on effect on other key staff in the NHS, who also work under immense pressure. I refer to medical secretaries and personal ...
-
Comment
Pilots make all the difference
The article 'Pilots making little difference' states that, according to research, pilot projects that have focused on the government’s policy of shifting services from hospitals into the community have made little difference.In reality, far from achieving little, the pilots have helped identify key learnings that will enable NHS organisations to ...
-
Comment
Dismissing improvement programmes misses the point
Alan Maynard's criticism of the quality improvement efforts under way for more than a decade in the NHS, and specifically of the role of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in that work, abounds with misunderstandings, write Stephen Thornton and Don Berwick
-
HSJ Knowledge
Health hotel: the road less travelled
What is the safe distance to a hospital? Adrian O'Dowd examines the implications of reconfiguring services
-
HSJ Knowledge
Health hotel: exploring inequalities
At the 'Access to all areas' event speakers will address the uneven picture of public health, and ask why - despite some progress - gaps are still widening. Helen Mooney reports
-
Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on the traits of executives
Being a chief executive is a wonderful job for those with a well-developed sense of responsibility. I read somewhere that more leaders are firstborn children than any other family position and I can understand why. As the first child, you are automatically expected to take responsibility for your siblings. If, ...
-
HSJ Knowledge
Dave Lee on Darzi's tour
'Mental health has occasionally painted itself as the eternal Cinderella, with the result that some commissioners feel obliged to treat it accordingly'
-
HSJ Knowledge
Michael White on the conference season
'The conference experience is to go home feeling that whatever interest brought you, it is worth doing for the rest of the year'
-
HSJ Knowledge
With choice comes responsibility
Patient choice is here to stay. But more needs to be learned about who wants it and why, say Martin Roland and Marianna Fotaki
-
HSJ Knowledge
Health hotel: wheels of change
Every year on the party conference circuit, the key debates around health happen at the Health Hotel. HSJ looks at this season's big issues
-
HSJ Knowledge
Care from the community
A redesign of the mental health support worker role values personal experience and diversity. Siobhan Chadwick and Alison James describe the development
-
HSJ Knowledge
Ali Mohammed on motivating staff
'Research has already been done demonstrating that there is a basket of measures which together produce better staff morale and motivation, lower absence and, most importantly, better patient care'
-
HSJ Knowledge
Rare diseases: adopt orphans
A lack of knowledge and understanding is resulting in inequalities surrounding the prescription of drugs for rare diseases, reports Michael Sobanja
-
News
HART teams
Emergency chiefs fear commissioners will balk at paying for an ambitious plan to allow specialist paramedics into the heart of major incidents including terrorist attacks. Commissioners have questioned how running costs for Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) will be funded, HSJ has learned. The scheme will see specialist teams set ...
-
Comment
Weird world health
A colleague has alerted us to a Myth of the Month website run by the Health and Safety Executive, which seeks to assuage rumours that the HSE is responsible for some of the rather over enthusiastic risk assessments taking place across the land. It is worth a look. Some of ...
-
Comment
All Our Yesterdays
September 26, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewThere was a report this week on the administration of feeding services, where the joint guidance of the National Council of Civil Service and the Women’s Voluntary Services for Civil Defence was called upon.‘These two bodies are working together to ...
-
News
Nuffield Trust appoints interim director
Healthcare policy charity the Nuffield Trust has appointed Neil Goodwin as interim director.
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page