All Health Service Journal articles in 27 September 2007 – Page 3

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    Role of diabetes networks in prevention of type 2 diabetes

    2007-09-25T09:00:00Z

    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.

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    Medical secretaries play a key role in the NHS

    2007-09-25T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    Pilots make all the difference

    2007-09-25T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    Dismissing improvement programmes misses the point

    2007-09-24T15:50:00Z

    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

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    Health hotel: the road less travelled

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    What is the safe distance to a hospital? Adrian O'Dowd examines the implications of reconfiguring services

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    Health hotel: exploring inequalities

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    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

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    Lisa Rodrigues on the traits of executives

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    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, ...

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    Dave Lee on Darzi's tour

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    'Mental health has occasionally painted itself as the eternal Cinderella, with the result that some commissioners feel obliged to treat it accordingly'

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    Michael White on the conference season

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    'The conference experience is to go home feeling that whatever interest brought you, it is worth doing for the rest of the year'

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    With choice comes responsibility

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    Patient choice is here to stay. But more needs to be learned about who wants it and why, say Martin Roland and Marianna Fotaki

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    Health hotel: wheels of change

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    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

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    Care from the community

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    A redesign of the mental health support worker role values personal experience and diversity. Siobhan Chadwick and Alison James describe the development

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    Ali Mohammed on motivating staff

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    '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'

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    Rare diseases: adopt orphans

    2007-09-24T09:00:00Z

    A lack of knowledge and understanding is resulting in inequalities surrounding the prescription of drugs for rare diseases, reports Michael Sobanja

  • News

    HART teams

    2007-09-24T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    Weird world health

    2007-09-19T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    All Our Yesterdays

    2007-09-19T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    Nuffield Trust appoints interim director

    2007-09-18T18:33:00Z

    Healthcare policy charity the Nuffield Trust has appointed Neil Goodwin as interim director.