All Health Service Journal articles in 30 October 2008 – Page 2
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News
NHS Confederation and Macmillan to work on perceptions of exception panels
Cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support and the NHS Confederation are in discussions about joint work to improve public confidence in primary care trust exception committee decisions.
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Blogs
NHS management and informatics are not mutually exclusive
I was very disappointed to read the article 'NHS managers not committed to informatics'.
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HSJ Knowledge
Encouraging healthy eating among NHS staff
A new project focusing on nutrition and healthy eating is setting out to change the dietary habits of NHS employees
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Comment
Kevin Fickenscher on robotics and patient care
Robotics in healthcare is revolutionising the way medical personnel work together and how patients are treated.
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Comment
Richard Knowles on NHS command and control
Command and control is a term that is increasingly used in the current target-driven healthcare climate.
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News
NHS data breaches hit 75 in a year
Seventy-five breaches of data security rules by the health service have been reported to the information commissioner's office in the past year, new figures reveal.The NHS and healthcare sector is second only to the whole of the private sector at losing computers, records and data.
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News
NHS Employers urges against reopening pay negotiations
Employers have urged the NHS pay review body to stick with its three-year pay settlement.
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News
NHS alcohol misuse services are inadequate - National Audit Office
The NHS is not doing enough to stem effects of alcohol on health, the National Audit Office has warned.
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News
Children's trusts hinder protection efforts - Audit Commission
'Children's trusts', created after the death of Victoria Climbie, have hindered rather than helped local public services' work to protect vulnerable children, the Audit Commission has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy admission day affects health outcomes
Emergency medical patients admitted at weekends have worse clinical outcomes than those admitted during the working week.
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News
Luton defends reputation after two babies die
A hospital trust has defended its high profile commitment to patient safety after an outbreak of a drug-resistant E coli strain on its neo-natal intensive care unit.
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News
Welsh NHS watchdog orders protocol review after murder
The NHS watchdog in Wales is calling on mental health service managers to review protocols for helping people with personality disorders, following a murder by a patient.
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News
Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs
Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.
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News
Annual health check progress
In the Healthcare Commission's annual health check, seven local trusts within NHS South East Coast were rated 'excellent' for quality of service (up from two last year) and the progress continues.
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News
Assessing NHS performance
You criticise us for being pedantic but details matter when it comes to fairly assessing the performance of the NHS.
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News
Back to work plans could penalise mental health patients
A leading mental health campaigner has dismissed proposed reforms which aim to get a million people back into work as too harsh.
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News
PCTs say realpolitik is behind unequal healthcare
Primary care trusts claim confusion, self-interest and realpolitik lie at the heart of the unfair distribution of NHS resources.
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News
Managers' union calls on DH to 'rip up' pay scheme
The pay scheme for very senior NHS managers undermines the effort going into world class commissioning and should be 'ripped up', officials are being told.
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News
Monitor chair calls on PCTs to set out plans for services
The coming years will see an increase in foundation trusts running primary care services, as well as culls of failing hospitals, executive chair of the regulator Monitor Bill Moyes has predicted.
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News
World class care takes a team
The NHS is truly world class in many aspects of its clinical work but the outcome figures of a brilliant surgeon are undermined without the rest of the NHS team, who provide essential theatre cleaning, nursing and ward management. A patient-led NHS has to recognise all the worth behind the ...
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