All Health Service Journal articles in 9 July 2009 – Page 2
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HSJ KnowledgeThe calm after the storm: what chief executives do after 'goodbye'
NHS chief executive is a high profile job and every now and then one such leader suffers a public execution - but these days there is no guarantee of another job in the system for those who leave under a cloud. Alison Moore asks what fate has in store for ...
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HSJ KnowledgeBook review: Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress Free-Productivity
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your workload? Find it hard to focus on the work at hand? Wish you were more relaxed and could achieve more with less effort? There is no reason to lose hope.
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CommentSheila Williams on to coach or not to coach
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s 2008 survey of learning and development reported an increase in the use of coaching - not just for senior managers and directors, but for all employees.
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NewsMinister seeks urgent talks on ambulance cuts
The rural development minister for Northern Ireland has expressed grave concerns about a proposed cut to regional ambulance services.
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NewsMeasles outbreak sparks vaccination appeal
The worst outbreak of measles in the North East for 20 years has prompted urgent appeals to parents to have their children vaccinated as soon as possible.
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NewsSurgery cancelled after fire in MRI suite
Surgery has been cancelled at a south London hospital after patients were evacuated when a fire broke out in a ward.
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NewsBurnham 'not ruling out' Mid Staffordshire probe
Health secretary Andy Burnham has said he is “not ruling out” a public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust scandal.
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NewsCompetition panel to investigate Kingston PCT
The co-operation and competition panel has agreed to investigate allegations of anti-competitive practice against Kingston primary care trust.
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NewsTrust in talks over merger with struggling foundation
A hospital trust in the South West is considering a merger with a struggling foundation trust.
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CommentSimon Stevens: on lifestyles and living beyond 100
If all goes well, next month my wife’s grandma will turn 100. That is a birthday only around one in 5,000 of her peers will be around to celebrate. Not bad for a woman who, like millions of others, emigrated between the two world wars from eastern Europe to New ...
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CommentAndy McKeon: saving £15bn-£20bn will be no summer holiday
This summer senior NHS managers have been set a problem they will still be studying for months ahead - how to save £15bn-£20bn over three years from 2011.
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NewsComplaints against nurses to NMC up by nearly a fifth
There was an 18 per cent increase in the number of complaints made to the Nursing and Midwifery Council from 2007-08 to 2008-09.
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NewsCall for ambitious mental health targets
Public services such as the NHS, schools and transport should be set targets to reduce the financial burden of mental illness, according to mental health leaders.
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NewsPCTs lash out over audit use of world class scores
Furious primary care trust chiefs have lambasted the Audit Commission after being marked down in annual reports on the basis of world class commissioning scores. They had been told they would not be judged on the measures.
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NewsPEAT inspectors award record top scores
Patient environment and action teams have rated a record number of sites as excellent.
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NewsReality chips away at NHS's gold-plated pension scheme
The ‘gold plated’ NHS pension scheme swallows 10 per cent of the service’s budget, but even in these tight times reforming it is a challenge no party is keen to accep.
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NewsPCTs' swine flu plans 'being tested by real life'
Primary care trusts’ swine flu plans are now being “tested by real life events”, the Department of Health has said.
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CommunityHSJ and a bit of satire and Darzi's sorted
Interesting to dissect the reading habits of the pre-reshuffle health ministers - a parliamentary answer last week revealed that while most of Lord Darzi’s colleagues had several “periodicals” delivered to their private office in May, he survives on just HSJ and Private Eye.
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NewsConcerns over CQC costs spark 'bonfire of the quangos' scrutiny
Politicians have this week pledged another “bonfire of the quangos”.
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CommunitySir Bruce Keogh cuts up rough
The normally charming NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh told HSJ that medical managers who think they can carry out a couple of operations a week are “just crazy”, and “nobody would regard you as a hard-hitting surgeon”.
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