All Health Service Journal articles in 30 April 2009
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Tory councillors call for shared health, police and council budgets
Leading Conservative councillors have urged the shadow cabinet to back joint funding of local public sector bodies to protect key frontline services.
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HSJ KnowledgeAssisted suicide: a fitting end
Public opinion runs high over severely ill people seeking access to a service allowing them to take their own life under clinical control. Could current law on assisted suicide be changed? Jennifer Taylor reports
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Advertising watchdog bans SHA from running 'misleading' choice ad
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned NHS North East from running an advertisement for patient choice on the grounds that it could mislead the public.
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NewsSwine flu fears increase as WHO ups alert level for second time
The World Health Organisation has raised its pandemic flu alert level for the second time in the space of a week, increasing fears that a global outbreak is inevitable.
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Confed proposes peer review to avoid Mid Staffordshire repeat
The NHS Confederation has called on hospital trusts to invite others trusts’ directors to inspect their services to help prevent failures such as those at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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CommunityStubbed out
Anti-smoking lobbyists ASH wasted no time in condemning last week’s Budget, calling it “another missed opportunity to clamp down on smuggling”.
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CommunityLookey-likey: James Lockley and Louis Theroux
Another suggestion from NHS Ealing Lookey-Likeys Ltd.
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CommentJenny Rogers on predictable irrationality in the NHS
The notorious US bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked why he raided banks so prolifically, allegedly answered, “because that’s where the money is”.
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Community
Tories jump the gun
You can’t fault their enthusiasm but it seems staff at the Conservative party’s Millbank HQ are getting a bit ahead of themselves.
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Community
Friends only
At its annual reception this week, King’s Fund chief executive Niall Dixon announced its new “friends of the fund scheme”, giving those who sign up, among other things, the twice-yearly opportunity to “meet the experts” and access to its new friends’ lounge.
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CommentMedia Watch: swine flu
The Department of Health was quick to offer reassurance at the start of this week after warnings of a pandemic of a new killer flu virus.
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Dental surgeries could extend opening hours
Primary care trusts are to begin a £150m procurement process which could see dental surgeries opening outside normal hours.
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NewsInterview: David Nicholson talks leadership
In an exclusive interview following the first meeting of the national leadership council last week, NHS chief executive David Nicholson tells HSJ what was discussed, why the council won’t become a “dustbin” for difficult issues and why all chief executives must take responsibility for leadership.
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DH publishes criteria for defining failure
NHS providers with even small deficits or which get their financial forecasting wrong risk being placed “under review” through the Department of Health’s new criteria for its failure regime.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on NHS cultures
My problem with a single powerful culture comes from growing up in the 1950s. English culture was pleased with itself. Its rejection of difference threatened that the cost of being different would be high. You would be on your own.
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NHS culture stifling innovation, Confed warns
The NHS is stifling innovation through an organisational culture that places barriers in the way of staff with good ideas, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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CommentLisa Rodrigues on the dos and don'ts of effective communication
Leaders seem to love lists that tell them what to do – The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and The Eighteen Challenges of Leadership to name but three of the more popular management books.
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NewsCrunch time: coming to terms with NHS funding cuts
Public sector spending projections raise the spectre of real terms cuts from 2011. Sally Gainsbury dissects the figures and looks at the options for the NHS as growth makes way for austerity
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Chief executives picked to lead integrated Welsh NHS
Six chief executives have been appointed to lead the NHS in Wales as it takes a further stride away from the English system.
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LeaderRose Gibb case underlines cost of failure for NHS managers
The judgement against Rose Gibb in her claim for breach of contract reinforces the accountability of senior managers for service failures, and slashes the chances of pay-offs.