All Health Service Journal articles in 5 June 2008
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Awards preview
New CategoryBest Social Marketing Project sponsored by the National Social Marketing CentreThis year’s HSJ Awards introduce a new category for Best Social Marketing Project. This award recognises the rising importance of social marketing in health service policy over recent years.Social marketing is essentially a powerful way to achieve positive impacts ...
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This week's All Our Yesterdays
Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, June 4 1948From the National Association of Local Government Social Welfare Officers annual conference presidential address: "The conference meets as a time when changes in the social welfare and assisting services are about to be out into operation and when members of ...
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Infrastructure: rolling out Airwave
The NHS needs a communications network worthy of its size and complexity. David Sangster explains
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Ali Mohammed on firing staff
Thank goodness The Apprentice is back on TV. It's basically the HR type's ultimate TV programme with a huge dose of entertainment built in.
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Andrew Jones on health outcomes
One thing that seems to be uniting healthcare policy makers is the urge to tackle so-called health inflation.
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Making joint strategic needs assessments work
Joint strategy to identify the service needs of local people became a duty last month. Renu Bindra looks at how some areas are making the process a success
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Service redesign: fast and effective change
Susannah Strong looks at the Care Services Improvement Partnership's 10 high impact changes for health and social care
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Dealing with presenteeism
There is a new bugbear for the employer - presenteeism - and there is evidence it can be just as harmful to an organisation as its opposite. Paul Gander reports
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Leadership skills: energising staff
How can we best engage people in their work, asks David MacLeod
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NHS politics: just a pawn in the game
From its early years to Thatcherite revolution to Blair's funding bonanza, the NHS has always been a political pawn. Click on the links at the beginning of the article to read more
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Lesley Wright on standardising work
Anyone planning a holiday that involves flying will have to have faith in the skills of a highly trained pilot and navigator to get them to their destination.
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Health volunteering abroad: a lot to offer
HSJ catches up with VSO workers in Cambodia to find out what they are contributing to the country's health strategy
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Defining the role of the physiotherapist
With more than 35 million work days lost each year in the UK to occupational ill health and injury, it has been widely acknowledged that physiotherapists should play a key role in delivering future occupational health strategies, which in turn must be brought into mainstream healthcare provision.
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Steve Onyett on transformational leadership
Picture the scene. Two clinical teams have received disappointing performance assessments. In each team, a senior manager brings the team members and their line manager together for an action planning workshop.
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West Midlands and South East Coast set out Darzi visions
NHS West Midlands has identified ‘seven big challenges’ for healthcare in the region, including an ‘unjustifiable variability’ in the safety and quality of services.
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Steve Slack on why being gay is still bad for your health
Despite improvements in UK legislation protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, discrimination is still affecting the quality of health and social care this community receives.
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Failing managers to be axed under new NHS regime
Managers at failing trusts will be replaced with teams from the private sector or other NHS organisations under a tough new performance regime.
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HSJ KnowledgeMaternity services at 60: the birth of a new era
For pregnant women, the birth of the NHS meant the family doctor’s advice could be sought freely without incurring expense, according to the 1949 Ministry of Health report.
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Jon Restell on the NHS's 60th anniversary
Are managers going to be unwelcome guests at the NHS's 60th birthday party in July and merely bit players in the next instalment of the next stage review?
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Fujitsu IT deal for e-records abandoned
The NHS's troubled IT programme has been dealt a further blow after negotiations with a key supplier broke down.