All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 111
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Leader
Will you be in the Healthcare 100 club?
This week HSJ, with our sister title Nursing Times and NHS Employers, launches the Healthcare 100, which aims to identify the 100 best healthcare employers in the country.
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News
Chief medical officer's annual report confronts surgical safety
Survival rates 30 days after surgery should be analysed and made public, the chief medical officer has demanded.
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HSJ Knowledge
Drifting apart: why health inequalities are getting bigger
Is it fair to expect the NHS alone to stop health inequalities widening when they are shaped by so many factors in society - income, housing, education - or is the health service failing in its basic responsibilities?
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News
Trusts stare published death rates in the face
Hospital public relations departments have given the Department of Health a mixed review after it published mortality rates for four kinds of operation last week.
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Comment
Michael White on rating doctors
As the government winds down towards what it hopes will be a welcome summer break (don’t bank on it), it’s been home secretary Jacqui Smith’s week.
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News
Happy staff equal happy patients
Healthcare organisations with happy staff are more likely to have satisfied patients, the Healthcare Commission has revealed.
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News
Royal colleges call talks to confront academy failings
A 'crisis meeting' has been called over the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' future amid infighting between member organisations.
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Comment
Richard Craven on how Darzi will improve access
Lord Darzi's review of the NHS heralds a new era of innovation in healthcare, and with it the tools and opportunities to reach out to patients who are disengaged from health services.
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HSJ Partners
Paul Allen on failure breeding success
Having recently returned from a frustrating day's skiing, I was regaling a friend with my experiences over dinner. He asked me how my day had been.
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Comment
Alyson Morley on the push for polyclinics
Do polyclinics spell the end of the patient-doctor relationship in favour of faceless big business intrusion into health services? Or are they the must-have health facility of the future?
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HSJ Knowledge
Making clinical leadership happen
Education and training are key components of Lord Darzi's plans to increase clinical leadership in the NHS. Ingrid Torjesen explains how the clinical landscape will change
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Comment
Simon Fradd on Darzi vs the GPs
Sixty years ago, the medical profession took on Nye Bevan and lost - are we about to do the same thing again?
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HSJ Knowledge
Darzi's vision - towards a quality-obsessed NHS
Under Lord Darzi's recently published plans for the health service, clinicians will lead the charge to top-quality care. Ingrid Torjesen explains
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HSJ Knowledge
Deaths data: under threat
The national confidential inquiries into why patients die have saved lives, but funding problems now threaten their own survival. Rebecca Norris looks at their prospects
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Comment
Angela Greatley on a new vision for mental health
Next year, the first of the government's national service frameworks will come to an end. The adult mental health framework was published in 1999 as a 10-year plan for improving services and setting out what patients could expect from them.
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Comment
Michael White on how Darzi looks from abroad
An impeccable sense of timing and a wedding of young friends in Washington DC ensured I stepped off the plane at Heathrow this week uninformed about Lord Darzi's master plan for the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Strategy will knit up the ravelled sleeve of care
Traditional institutional boundaries must be crossed and existing work patterns challenged before the elements of the NHS can come together to create care that fits patients perfectly
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News
PCTs will have veto on Darzi integrated care pilots
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be expected to take a lead role in setting up and supporting integrated care pilots.
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News
Clinical leaders network ready to roll
A scheme to develop senior clinicians as leaders is to be extended across England after a successful trial.
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Leader
Publish and be damned: death rates could improve outcomes
With quality now firmly established as the health service's new mantra, its measurement is the next step.