All Health Service Journal articles in 28 February 2008 – Page 2
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Creating a fearless ITC strategy
Trevor Ludlam's organisation used the national programme for IT as a springboard for implementing a wide range of IT innovations. From integrated patient records to digital pens in A&E, here he explains what they did and how they did it
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HSJ Knowledge
Open meetings, open minds: a view from the front-line
Over the last six months, as part of a pilot for NHS Conversations, our foundation trust has been holding a number of open meetings at which all levels of staff can put forward views on improving the patient experience and functioning better, writes Clive Underwood
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Learning to be unloved
In the second article in our series on coaching, Isobel Gowan describes her work with a GP who is new to leadership
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HSJ Knowledge
School for scandal
If a hospital is unhappy about how it has been represented in a newspaper or magazine, it has the means to complain. Sue Roberts explains
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Fraud charges
Two former directors of a private hospital group have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the NHS.The move by Norfolk police follows an investigation lasting more than a year into financial irregularities at Cawston Park Hospital, one of three psychiatric hospitals run by Chancellor Care. The NHS Counter Fraud and ...
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HSJ masterclass
Trust boards should examine their governance structures and the partnerships between different agencies, according to a paper published this week.The paper "Governance between organisations" calls on NHS trusts to look outside their organisations and ensure that their partnerships between ambulance trusts, commissioners, local authorities and social services departments are up ...
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"Gill has made NHS Confederation into the most effective trade association in the country without doubt." John Restell, chief executive, MiP. "Under her leadership the NHS has had real credibility nationally. She has been a really important figure in a very important transitional phase of NHS management." Jan Filochowski, interim ...
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HSJ Knowledge
The risky business of ignorance
A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change
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HSJ Knowledge
A check-up for nurses
A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1
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HSJ Knowledge
A check-up for nurses
A new campaign is encouraging health workers to focus on their own lives for a change. Rosemary Cook explains the ambitions of Nursing No.1
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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Sustainable communities award supplement
The awards winners show how councils, local health services, the voluntary sector and local people are collaborating to tackle some of the most challenging issues our communities face, from climate change to improve public health to community cohesion.
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Lousy singer, great lobbyist - Morgan is a tough act to follow
As the tributes pour in for Gill Morgan following the announcement that she is to leave the NHS Confederation, it is clear not only how well liked and respected she is, but also how far she has taken the organisation in six years.
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Speak now to influence the new regulator
This week's analysis of the bill introducing the Care Quality Commission highlights how little NHS and independent sector managers have involved themselves in shaping the new body so far. But the lack of detail in the bill of the nuts and bolts of the new regulatory framework means it is ...
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'Twas ever thus: why Darzi is 90 years too late
In 1920 Lord Dawson, physician-in-ordinary to George V, called for the creation of what we now call polyclinics in a report that was well received even by the BMA. So why did his idea never take off, ask Ian Kendall and John Carrier
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Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.
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Your Humble Servant: the Fresh Approach to Cash Alternatives Team
To: Don Wise, chief executiveDear Don, as you can imagine, GPs are very agitated at the moment.
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'Overburdened' staff put mothers and babies at risk
Too little focus on maternity services and safety by some trust boards is leading to problems, an independent inquiry is expected to warn tomorrow.
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GP payment scheme must be 'scaled back'
Offering financial incentives to GPs and other healthcare providers is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on the quality of patient care, new research concludes.
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New super-regulator begins to take shape
Last week the bill that will see the merger of three regulators began its process through the Lords. But there are warnings that detail on the new legislation is sketchy, leaving trusts in the dark over how it will affect them. Charlotte Santry reports
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