All Health Service Journal articles in 31 January 2008 – Page 3

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Lesley Wright on making everyone a quality manager

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    David Woodhead on patient satisfaction

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    France and the UK may have different approaches to healthcare delivery, but many of the challenges they face are the same

  • HSJ Knowledge

    At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore

  • News

    Career coaching: yes, you can phone a friend

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    In a new series, management coaches tackle HSJ readers' issues. This week, Dorothy Larios helps a trainee frustrated by a perceived lack of opportunities

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    View from the front line: redesigning care

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Public involvement - use strategy to buck the trends

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    Commissioners, stakeholders and public are tackling health spend issues together within one primary care trust's strategic approach

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Born in Bradford project takes on infant mortality

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Anger over C difficile pay-off

    2008-01-25T11:21:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    All Our Yesterdays

    2008-01-22T15:36:10Z

    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 ...