All Health Service Journal articles in 5 June 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Health volunteering abroad: a lot to offer

    2008-06-03T09:00:00Z

    HSJ catches up with VSO workers in Cambodia to find out what they are contributing to the country's health strategy

  • Comment

    Lesley Wright on standardising work

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS politics: just a pawn in the game

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Leadership skills: energising staff

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    How can we best engage people in their work, asks David MacLeod

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Dealing with presenteeism

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    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

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Service redesign: fast and effective change

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    Susannah Strong looks at the Care Services Improvement Partnership's 10 high impact changes for health and social care

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Making joint strategic needs assessments work

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    Andrew Jones on health outcomes

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    One thing that seems to be uniting healthcare policy makers is the urge to tackle so-called health inflation.

  • Comment

    Ali Mohammed on firing staff

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Infrastructure: rolling out Airwave

    2008-06-02T09:00:00Z

    The NHS needs a communications network worthy of its size and complexity. David Sangster explains

  • Comment

    This week's All Our Yesterdays

    2008-05-28T12:35:14Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    Awards preview

    2008-05-23T12:27:25Z

    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 ...