All Health Service Journal articles in 3 July 2008
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NHS60: Five days that shook the NHS
The NHS has weathered countless scandals, speeches, policy launches and inquiries. Peter Davies and Daloni Carlisle discuss five landmark events and talk to those involved.
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NHS60: Icing on the cake
Three managers who share their 60th birthday with the NHS talk to Emma Dent about their long careers in the service
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Ian Magee on data sharing
Data sharing in the NHS and other public bodies can present risks, but it is crucial in protecting vulnerable patients and the public.
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance and Health and Hospital Review, July 2 1948"With the final disappearance of the Poor Law and the inauguration of the new national service of assistance, with its accompanying local government institutional and welfare provision, we stand in the dawn of a new era – an era that is ...
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NHS60: What the papers said in 1948
You might have expected the birth of the NHS to be greeted with a cheer, but it got a muted press reception, says Jo Stephenson
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NHS60: Déjà vu
Healthcare has moved on apace since 1948, with treatments that would have amazed medics of the time. Yet in other areas time seems to have stood still, says Niall Dickson
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NHS60: Tougher at the top
Over the past six decades the working life of consultants may have lost some of its glamour. Now their role has to evolve if they are to regain their standing in the health service, writes David Kerr
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NHS60: Meet the locals
Councils have done more to improve the nation's health than the NHS - but the relationship between the two is still evolving, says Rodney Brooke
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NHS60: Always on our minds
The regimented tyranny of the old asylums that came into the NHS in 1948 is consigned to history, but the rhetoric of community care has struggled to win adequate resources and understanding, says Simon Lawton-Smith
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NHS60: Don't beat yourself up
Manager bashing is a national sport - but try not to believe your own bad press. Ken Jarrold asks why administrators have become unpopular and argues that it is still worth taking a few knocks
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NHS60: All roads lead to IT
BT is dedicated to a future where information technology works for healthcare on all fronts, says Lyn Whitfield
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NHS60: Flash outfit
The light pulsing on top of a modern NHS emergency vehicle signals a mobile unit packed with staff expertise and impressive technology, says Airwave’s David Sangster
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NHS60: Job adverts over the years
Emma Dent on six decades of job adverts in HSJ - and how they have been a barometer of policy
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NHS60: 'It was the toughest two years of my life'
Being in the top job at the Department of Health means overseeing the biggest political football of all. Peter Davies and Daloni Carlisle hear six former health secretaries' memories
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NHS60: Managing a multitude
How does the NHS match up to the other biggest employers in the world? Sally O'Reilly reports
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NHS60: Who had a hand in policy?
The health ministry has conceded influence over the direction of the NHS to many different groups, from the family doctors of 1948, to the teaching hospital boards of the 1960s, to the professional managers and regulators of 2008. By Anna Dixon
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NHS60: As seen on TV
Suave doctors, flirtatious nurses and evil managers. Nick Samuels looks at popular images of health professionals as portrayed in television and film
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NHS60: Diamond sixty
Who are the most influential people in the last 60 years of the National Health Service? HSJ invited a panel of prestigious judges to pick 60 people who have been central in shaping today’s NHS. This list includes politicians, managers, professionals, campaigners, civil servants, historians and designers
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NHS60: A dramatic revolution
Daloni Carlisle charts 60 years of the developing role of the NHS manager
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NHS60: What's the verdict?
We invite three health pundits to pull no punches and deliver their judgments on the past and future of the NHS