All Community articles – Page 12
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CommunityThe NHS gets Twittering
End Game confesses to being slightly behind the times when it comes to Twitter, although the “microblogging” sensation has been taken up by none other than the HSJ news team (www.twitter.com/HSJnews) and editor (www.twitter.com/richardHSJ).
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CommunityA First Lady lookey-likey: Yvonne Coghill and Michele Obama
A rare chance to feature a pair of glamorous women this week.
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CommunityNHS Choices does female ejaculation
Browsing around YouTube one evening, End Game stumbled upon (as you do) a video produced by NHS Choices on female ejaculation.
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CommunityWord up
Readers may recall we recently exposed how far the DH is prepared to go to ensure that the word spread about world class commissioning is the rightly worded word. As we reported, many primary care trusts took the DH’s instructions for press releases literally, repeating them almost exactly. But surely ...
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'The Three Metric-eers'
Last week HSJ had a story on how the poor Information Centre and DH received just 299 responses to a no doubt fascinating survey about which metrics should be used to measure quality of care.
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An April Fool made flesh
A year or two back HSJ ran a news story outlining how all NHS health professionals would be asked to practise what they preach and embark on weight management and exercise programmes so they could be a picture of health for their patients. The story sparked outrage among readers who ...
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CommunityOld school medicine
As everyone knows, despite ever increasing scientific advances, getting decidedly old school can sometimes be the best medicine. But it takes a strong stomach to read in the British Medical Journal that recent studies have proved using larval (maggot) therapy to treat leg ulcers has similar health and cost benefits ...
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CommunityLookey-likey: Nick Curtiss and Super Mario
“Staff in the corporate governance directorate at NHS Ealing have all been struck by how much their director, Nick Curtiss (sic), looks like (Nintendo games console character) Super Mario,” writes assistant director for communications Fiona Harcombe.
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CommunityMedia Watch: hospital parking charges report
The measured reasoning of the NHS Confederation’s hospital parking charges report is failing to quell a mini rebellion in Lancashire.
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Care combat
A new month, a new season and a new dawn for health and social care inspection as super-regulator the Care Quality Commission came into being on 1 April. And among the million and one things it has to do, upping its internet profile should be on the list.
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Advertising guilt
There is nothing like parenthood for laying on a massive guilt trip - something the Department of Health harnessed for a series of adverts in which small children talk about how they are not as scared of the dark or monsters under the bed as they are of their mum ...
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CommunityMedia Watch: NHS pay scandals
City bankers were keeping a low profile this week as thousands of G20 protesters marched through the streets; NHS chiefs may want to follow suit after the latest uproar over pay.
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CommunityFT logo's a no-go
Take a look at this little design effort. No, it’s not a (very) early design of the European Commission flag, but the emblem the Foundation Trust Network has conjured up to mark the fifth anniversary of the first ten foundation trusts this month.
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CommunityCaption competition: Gordon Brown at King's College hospital
There is nothing like a few hours with some lovely nurses to distract one from a global financial crisis.
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Too fat to work
The Chawner family of Blackburn, Lancashire, whom you may know from a less than successful appearance on TV’s The X Factor by daughter Emma and newspaper stories detailing every step of their eviction by the local council, have told Closer magazine they are too fat to work.
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CommunityMedia Watch: credit crunch scapegoat
Now bank chiefs have been sufficiently humiliated in the press, the media’s attention seems to be turning to a new credit crunch scapegoat: NHS managers.
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CommunityLookey-likey: Chris Ham and Luiz Felipe Scolari
“May I suggest Chris Ham of Birmingham University would make a convincing [Chelsea FC manager] Luiz Felipe ‘Big Phil’ Scolari?” writes a reader identifying himself only as Dan from north London.
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CommunitySnack attack
Poor Alan Johnson. No doubt obliged to rise at dawn – all the better for spending more time with his red boxes – he probably hardly gets the chance to grab a cup of coffee in the morning.And then when he does have a chance to tuck into something tasty ...
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CommunityAnti-obesity row turns sour
The anti-obesity row is turning sour. Computer games makers have reacted with fury to adverts from government campaign Change 4Life that depict a small boy sitting on a sofa playing with a games console, underneath the headline: “Risk an early death, just do nothing.”