All Health Service Journal articles in 4 September 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Lansley boosts councils' role in public health

    2008-09-01T10:48:10Z

    Public health directors would have to report to local authorities under plans announced by the shadow health secretary last week.Andrew Lansley told an audience at the think tank Reform that the Conservatives now envisaged councils having an even greater role in improving public health.Outlining conclusions from the party's consultation on ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Patient involvement: parlez-vous health?

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Willingness to learn a few foreign phrases is helping a PCT get closer to its minority communities. Lynne Greenwood reports

  • Comment

    Jenny Rogers on forced fun

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    I have a memory: my one-year-old child is squatting in the kitchen looking a touch restless. Feeling it my maternal duty to play, I approach with a synthetic 'let's-have-fun' voice.

  • Comment

    Paul Jennings on the commissioner-provider split

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    It is just over two years since we began separating the commissioning and provider arms in Walsall teaching primary care trust.

  • Comment

    John Cochran on healers, leaders and partners

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi's review singles out Kaiser Permanente in the US as an example of an organisation with strong clinical leadership and says the NHS can learn from its 'practitioner, partner, leader' model. Permanente Federation director John Cochran explains

  • HSJ Knowledge

    The new NHS leadership challenge

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Developing new leaders is a strategic decision not an HR one, argues Chris Roebuck, and line managers should get started right away

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Adolescent services: smells like teen spirit

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    The teenage years are not the easiest: testing boundaries, asserting your independence and taking risks - and this age group often falls between child and adult healthcare. Claire Laurent reports on moves to target services for young people's needs

  • Comment

    Andrew Jones on achieving quality care

    2008-09-01T09:00:00Z

    Piloting the NHS towards quality requires robust regulation and inspection, and the DH has already set up overlapping organisations to provide this, presumably with a thinly spread budget. But if Lord Darzi's plan is to be accomplished, it will require action rather than rhetoric, and action requires funding.