All Health Service Journal articles in 31 January 2008
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All Our Yesterdays
January 30, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review On the midwifery service: “The year just reported on by the Central Midwives Board saw continues heavy pressure on both domiciliary and institutional midwifery services. The increase in the birth rate during these twelve months was also reflected in ...
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Anger over C difficile pay-off
The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.
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Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember
This year could be the best for the NHS in England for some time. Challenges will not be in short supply, including the 18-week target, infection control, foundation status and maintaining hard-won financial stability. However, it should be the first year for a while that is not dominated by financial ...
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Born in Bradford project takes on infant mortality
Bradford's infant mortality rate is twice the British average. An ambitious project is tracking the lives of 10,000 babies in the archetypal deprived, multi-ethnic city in the hope of understanding why. Emma Dent reports. Pictures by Rii Schroer
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Public involvement - use strategy to buck the trends
Commissioners, stakeholders and public are tackling health spend issues together within one primary care trust's strategic approach
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Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need
To help simplify highly complex emergency care processes, one health and social care community has signed up to a whole-system change programme. By Daloni Carlisle
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View from the front line: redesigning care
Understanding the concerns and challenges facing staff on the ground is essential to good management. In this new series HSJ goes back to the floor to get the views and opinions of frontline workers
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Career coaching: yes, you can phone a friend
In a new series, management coaches tackle HSJ readers' issues. This week, Dorothy Larios helps a trainee frustrated by a perceived lack of opportunities
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At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease
ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore
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David Woodhead on patient satisfaction
France and the UK may have different approaches to healthcare delivery, but many of the challenges they face are the same
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Lesley Wright on making everyone a quality manager
Quality is something we all hear a great deal about. But when asked the question 'how do you define quality?' many stop, pause and think, and a period of silence is followed by a variety of responses.
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Strength in numbers - mental health partnerships
The providers of services for people with schizophrenia in Liverpool saw ISIP as a great chance to bring the NHS and local authority together, as Helen Mooney explains
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Service transformation special report
The NHS Integrated Service Improvement Programme has brought about big changes, but the need for an integrated approach to service transformation has never been stronger.
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Ann Keen pledges to support Productive Ward
Health minister Ann Keen has pledged her support to the Productive Ward programme, which is designed to help ward nurses release more timefor direct patient care.
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Global challenge - volunteering abroad in mental health
Overseas volunteering is increasingly seen as a way for health professionals to get involved in improving global health. Here, Deji Oyebode explains how it works
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Innovative Commissioning Award
Category: Innovative commissioningWinner: Older people’s home treatment teamContact: Simon Sullivan, tel 07786 707331E-mail: simon.sullivan@wolvespct.nhs.ukThe older people's home treatment service based at Penn Hospital in Wolverhampton is a unique and innovative service providing specialist integrated mental health assessment, treatment and support for older adults with complex mental health needs.Mental health nurse ...
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Information Sharing Award
Winner: Warwickshire drug and alcohol team - alcohol harm reduction informationContact: Lorna Ferguson, tel 01926 746808E-mail: lornaferguson@warwickshire.gov.ukWhen Warwickshire's drug and alcohol action team looked at information and advice for young people on drug and alcohol misuse, they did not find much that was up-to-date, easily accessible and relevant to the ...
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High-Impact Changes in Mental Health Award
Category: High-impact changes in mental healthWinner: People using specialist eating disorders service by improving flowContact: Ruth Carson, tel 0151 4717751E-mail: Ruth.Carson@merseycare.nhs.ukA year ago at theLiverpooland Sefton Eating Disorders Service, part of the Merseycare trust Eating Disorder Clinic, clients could expect to wait 33 weeks or more for an appointment.Clients and ...
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New Ways of Working Award
Category: New Ways of WorkingWinner: The Bromley and Greenwich New Ways of Working projectSince 2002, Oxleas foundation trust's mental health services in Bromley andGreenwichhave been operating aNew Waysof Working programme.Feedback from service users, carers and GPs revealed that a review of outpatient clinics and acute inpatient services was needed to ...
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CSIP Positive Practice Awards
The 2007 CSIP Positive Practice Awards aim to celebrate excellence in health and social care.