All Health Service Journal articles in 6 March 2008 – Page 3

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Health Foundation welcomes Brown's self-management pledge

    2008-03-04T09:00:00Z

    The Health Foundation has welcomed prime minister Gordon Brown's emphasis on increasing support for patient self-management in his recent speech on the NHS.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Richard Gleave on healthcare wholesalers

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    Mastering the latest management jargon is as much of a skill in the US as it is in the NHS. Even after several months, I am still a novice and get especially confused by the sporting analogies: it is easy to guess what is meant by a 'play book', but ...

  • Supplements

    HSJ intelligence supplement: password future

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    Welcome to the latest issue of Intelligence, the quarterly HSJ supplement dedicated to innovation, information and technology.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Jenny Rogers on embarrassing emails

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    About 25 years ago on a management development course I was taken to visit Hewlett Packard.

  • Comment

    David Peat on community spirit

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    It occurred to me the other day that just as TV soap devotees have Coronation Street, in East Lancashire we have Howard Street. But instead of the Rovers Return being the centre of everything that moves, we have Howard Street's community health centre.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    How to close the readmission revolving door

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    New software takes the guesswork out of assessing readmission risk, helping services to target resources. Louise Hunt reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS chaplaincy: a spirited row

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    Chaplaincy is making its case to become a commissioned NHS service. Daloni Carlisle reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Why are there so few BME managers?

    2008-03-03T09:00:00Z

    With the vast majority of senior NHS managers classed as white, why are there still so few from black and minority ethnic backgrounds? Charlotte Santry reports

  • Comment

    All Our Yesterdays

    2008-02-27T17:20:36Z

    March 5, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review Within preparations underway for the coming into effect of the National Hospital Service, a number of reports were printed this week on the decisions or provisional arrangements being made as to the allocation of institutions between county and county ...

  • Comment

    This week's lookey likey

    2008-02-27T17:18:35Z

    Timothy Spall is a first class actor and national treasure. But now there is another string to his bow - Professor Wellard of internet site www.wellards.co.uk suggests that he also looks somewhat like NHS Confederation director of policy and HSJ favourite Nigel Edwards.

  • Comment

    Weird world health

    2008-02-27T17:14:57Z

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  • HSJ Knowledge

    Pass on your skills

    2008-02-15T14:14:23Z

    With a worrying number of health and social care professionals fearing future skills shortages, two new courses could help to plug the gaps

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Lyn Whitfield on being over 30

    2008-02-12T14:51:29Z

    I attended an IT conference recently at which the keynote speaker told me I could never be a 'digital native' because I was over 30 and hadn't grown up texting.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Reports that took three days - now done in five minutes

    2008-02-12T14:34:54Z

    Although it is known for its high standards of quality, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals trust has struggled to meet the new demands for fast, accurate information, particularly to support payment by results.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Intelligence - news in brief

    2008-02-12T13:56:47Z

    Mobile monitoring system keeps closer eye on mistakesSpecialists in e-working at Coventry University have developed a programme that uses mobile technology to allow staff to report mistakes immediately. The researchers at Coventry got together with health software providers Savant to develop a personal digital assistant system to help improve safety ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    New basic skills programme launched

    2008-02-11T16:20:55Z

    NHS Connecting for Health is to drop the European Computer Driving Licence service in favour of a new Essential IT Skills Programme.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Thousands now book to see GPs on web

    2008-02-11T16:18:55Z

    More than 56,000 people booked appointments on-line at their GP practice last month with one in seven practices now able to offer the service.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Paul Robinson on the waiting times initiative

    2008-02-11T13:39:58Z

    The NHS is often used as a generic term, but in reality it consists of four different services in four countries. In my last column, I examined surprising differences in the growth of emergency admissions in the four countries. This time we will look at an issue that has had ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Notes on a scandal: electronic records

    2008-02-11T13:32:54Z

    The row over summary care records rages on, but what do patients in pioneer areas think about them and do they fear invasion of privacy? Lyn Whitfield visits Bolton to find out

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Electronic consultation cuts hospital referrals in Bradford by half

    2008-02-07T13:57:17Z

    Clinicians in Bradford, West Yorkshire, are piloting a scheme to cut referrals to secondary care and improve the care pathway for chronic kidney disease. The scheme relies on an 'e-consultation' tool that allows primary and secondary care clinicians to communicate electronically.