All Health Service Journal articles in 29 October 2009 – Page 3

  • Stop smoking services: keep quitters winning
    HSJ Knowledge

    Stop smoking services: keep quitters winning

    2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The last decade of stop smoking services has seen great progress in getting people to quit, but if that good work is to continue managers will need accurate, meaningful data about local populations and their habits

  • Human resources: the momentum to drive change
    HSJ Knowledge

    Human resources: the momentum to drive change

    2009-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Make sure your strategy is a success by getting management on board, say Diane Allsopp and Georgia McHardy

  • Barts faces fine over IT failures
    News

    Barts faces fine over IT failures

    2009-10-23T15:54:00Z

    St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London faces being fined £400,000 a month for missing patient care targets as a result of the troubled NHS IT programme, MPs have heard.

  • NHS to outlaw age discrimination by 2012
    News

    NHS to outlaw age discrimination by 2012

    2009-10-23T12:54:00Z

    Health secretary Andy Burnham has told the national children and adult services conference that age discrimination will be outlawed in the NHS and social care in England, Wales and Scotland from 2012, following a review of the treatment of older people.

  • Concern as swine flu cases double
    News

    Concern as swine flu cases double

    2009-10-23T11:52:00Z

    Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has spoken of his concern over the doubling of swine flu cases.

  • Scottish NHS to cut CO2 emissions
    News

    Study reveals NHS Scotland's CO2 emissions

    2009-10-23T10:39:00Z

    Fresh targets requiring the NHS in Scotland to boost its energy efficiency and slash greenhouse gas emissions are expected, following the latest health service CO2 emissions study.

  • Celebrating the NHS's stop smoking champions
    HSJ Knowledge

    Celebrating the NHS's stop smoking champions

    2009-10-22T12:26:00Z

    Since the launch of NHS stop smoking services in 1999, the work of doctors, pharmacists, local stop smoking service advisers, nurses, health visitors and others have helped smokers across the UK to quit, saving around 70,000 lives and putting England at the forefront in tackling the damage tobacco does to ...

  • Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh
    News

    MP calls for greater PCT accountability

    2009-10-22T11:15:00Z

    Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh has called for an end to the “democratic deficit” that sees unelected health chiefs making crucial decisions on healthcare.

  • News

    PCT names new chief executive

    2009-10-22T11:03:00Z

    NHS Leeds has appointed John Lawlor as chief executive.