All Health Service Journal articles in 8 May 2008
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Transforming urology services
Changes to the urology service at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust have eliminated long outpatient waiting lists. New patients are seen within 10 days of referral, while patients with established diseases are seen in disease-specific, nurse-led clinics.
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HSJ Knowledge
Getting to grips with intellectual property rights
What is intellectual property and what should NHS organisations do to protect their financial interests? Claire Reynolds explains the finer points
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HSJ Knowledge
Health inequalities: action points for NHS boards
Equality in healthcare is firmly on the agenda for trusts around the UK and has been for some time. But non-executive directors must go beyond the rhetoric and create local realities.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stress-busting techniques for NHS staff
It is sadly ironic that, for many, the NHS is a source of stress. I am not talking about patients - that is another article - but about the service's staff.
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Comment
Simon Stevens on value for money in the NHS
What is the biggest black box in the NHS? By which I mean, where is the worst ratio of cash to clarity about what taxpayers are getting for their money?
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News
Polyclinics are wrong for London
So provided what happens in London is good news for strategic health authorities and ministers - fine. And we naively thought the goal was a patient centred service, writes Roger Goss
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HSJ Knowledge
Perfect union: why partnerships must seek local public opinion
The health service has a long history of joint working. To build on this, it must recognise local need as a bigger priority than targets and keep decision makers close to communities
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Comment
Ros Levenson on recruiting non-executives
After 10 years as a non-executive director of my local NHS trust, including six years as deputy chair, I felt tuned-in to what local people wanted from their hospital. But looking back on the experience, it is interesting to reflect that if I were applying now, rather than a decade ...
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Leader
Independent sector sceptics must be won over
This week's interview with Channing Wheeler, commercial director general at the Department of Health, highlights the complexity of the relationship between the NHS and the independent sector.
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Comment
Your Humble Servant on getting to grips with nurses
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRE: Go with the Flo
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News
Foundation trusts must improve on MRSA
Monitor has warned four foundation trusts it will intervene if they fail to improve performance on MRSA. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Poole Hospital were told they had breached their terms of authorisation.
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News
Focus on GP hours is too narrow says PCT Network
The government has been warned to broaden its approach to improving primary care services beyond a focus on extended hours.
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News
Monitor plans for foundation trust failures
Foundation trust regulator Monitor is anticipating that some 47 acute and mental health trusts will not make it to foundation trust status by 2010.
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Blogs
No faith in evidence-based medicine
Daragh Fahey’s childlike faith in evidence-based medicine should not go unchallenged, writes Norma Butler
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News
Media Watch: election time
Most of the weekend was spent dissecting implications of the local elections, which hinted that the next government would be blue.
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News
DH toughens line on GP exception reporting
Primary care trusts must ensure they have a strategy in place on GP exception reporting, a health inequalities official has warned.
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Comment
Michael White on NICE decisions
Did you hear Ian Gibson, left wing MP for Norwich North, giving Gordon Brown a piece of his mind in the wake of Labour's disastrous performance in the local elections?
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News
Darzi review: PCTs told reforms must save lives
Junior health minister Lord Darzi is to tell primary care trusts they can reconfigure local services only where they can prove it will save lives or improve health outcomes.
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News
Norman Lamb critical of 'opaque' DH leadership
The Liberal Democrats' health spokesman has criticised the 'complete lack of transparency' around Department of Health decisions.
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating a smoke-free working environment
Chris Phillips outlines the steps NHS employers should take to implement a successful smoking ban and explains how to deal with possible dissent from patients, visitors and staff