All Health Service Journal articles in 7 May 2009
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ Patient Safety Conference 2009
Charlotte Santry speaks to Stephen Ramsden and Donna Forsyth about the importance of patient safety and improvements in reporting standards
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HSJ KnowledgeJane Abbott on creating a productive working culture
Healthcare 100 winner Jane Abbott describes the practices that make Benenden Hospital the best place to work in Britain
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HSJ KnowledgePatrick Geoghegan on achieving quality patient outcomes
Healthcare 100 winner Patrick Geoghegan shares best practice in patient outcomes and explains how frontline staff drive quality
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HSJ KnowledgeSound advice on workforce development
Healthcare 100 winners Yasmin Ahmed-Little, Deborah Kendall, Omar Najim, Mathew Bluck and Steve Ellis explain their work
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CommentAngela Greatley on health in the criminal justice system
Lord Bradley’s review of mental health and learning disabilities in the criminal justice system was published last month. Fourteen months in the making, the report that emerged did not disappoint.
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NewsChief executives appointed at two SHAs
Chief executives have been appointed to West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber strategic health authorities.
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LeaderMid Staffordshire: improvement must be routine, not just the result of a scandal
In his report into the lessons to be learned from the failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, national primary care director David Colin-Thomé concluded that responsibility lies firmly with the management board and staff.
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CommunitySex games
Here’s one for you from the seedy world of web analytics. Last week, 10 people (you know who you are) searched Google for “sex game” and landed right on HSJ’s community section. Rest assured, your trusted publication has not launched a raunchy microsite for NHS managers looking for a distraction ...
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS marketing: a new future
Primed with resilient data and analysis, intelligent marketing has the potential to make a big difference, easing the burden on NHS services and driving positive patient experiences. Ingrid Torjesen explains
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CommentMichael White on swine flu and leadership
This column’s established policy is not to panic over either swine flu or Labour leadership flu. Outbreaks of both occur from time to time and are easily spread by modern life, notably by air travel and 24-hour TV news channels. The authorities do their best.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on expenses and exploitation
It was a cheap Chinese restaurant, just near the bus terminal in a quiet Northern town. Now, I’m partial to Chinese food when away on business, not least because the single male traveller can usually eat a plate of chow mien or special fried rice without feeling awkward and without ...
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HSJ KnowledgeTen years on: what devolution has meant for the NHS
In 1999 Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland assumed new powers. After 10 years of devolution Graham Clews examines what it has meant for the UK’s health services
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Comment
Matthew Winn on community health providers
The Darzi review brings community providers the policies they have long called for but the new austerity means they must prove their worth with cost-effective innovations
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NewsRising patient choice fails to improve NHS quality standards
One year after the introduction of free choice, early trends suggest some patients are using choice - but it is not yet driving up standards in hospitals.
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LeaderNHS quality improvement needs patient choice data
One year after the introduction of free choice, early analysis suggests some patients are using their right to choose the hospital at which they are treated.
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NewsNHS Confederation warns primary care trusts to tender with caution
Commissioners will need to be robust about which services they put out to tender, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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SupplementsEconomy class: Get creative with your training budget
As NHS workforce development becomes more quality driven, higher education institutions can expect more rigorous monitoring of provision by education commissioners. For example, key performance indicators will be expected by NHS commissioners of educational provision.
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CommunityLookey-likey: Mark Britnell and Sean Penn
A film buff at HSJ has spotted the resemblance between NHS director general for commissioning and system management Mark Britnell and Sean Penn in gangster film Carlito’s Way.