All Health Service Journal articles in 3 July 2008 – Page 4
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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
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NHS60: Patients first
The views of the most important person in the health service were scarcely considered in the early days. Don Redding looks at how patient power has evolved
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NHS60: The team dream
The germ of multidisciplinary teamworking existed even in 1948 and has blossomed in recent years, reports Stuart Shepherd
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NHS60: Retrospective
Former chief executives and health authority leaders compare their challenges and ambitions with the picture they see emerging for managers today. By Alison Moore
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NHS60: The expert patient
Just as the internet has evolved into a web of ordinary people sharing information, we are entering a new age of user participation in health services, says Humana's Tom Granatir
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NHS60: Frontline pharmacy
The community pharmacist’s invaluable role in dispensing prescriptions and advice is sure to expand into delivering some primary healthcare services, says Lloydspharmacy
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NHS60: Oil in the wheels
The Tribal consultancy says policy change sets off an emotional cycle in those affected - but resistance can be smoothed out
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NHS60: If the care fits
Experts predict a future in which primary care will be delivered by a variety of suppliers in integrated packages tailored to individual needs, reports Ingrid Torjesen
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NHS60: A day in our life
The daily life of an NHS manager has changed hugely since 1948, says Daloni Carlisle
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NHS60: Run with a rod of iron
The formation of the NHS brought together many different organisations, with their own ideas of hierarchy, writes Stuart Shepherd
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NHS60: The reinvention of hospitals
A ramshackle collection of impoverished hospitals dotted the NHS landscape in 1948. Anthony Harrison charts the transformation that has created the modern secondary care scene
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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: 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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Comment
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 ...