All Community articles – Page 3
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CommunityWeird corner
And the prize for weirdest press release of the week goes to… The Stroke Association, which has formed an unlikely partnership with “evergreen collectable toy brand” Sylvanian Families.
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CommunityBunker breath
When it comes to riding on the coattails of other people’s fame, the British Dental Health Foundation may have taken the biscuit this week.
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Flowers, chocolate, chlamydia
February is the month of romance, roses and, for one NHS region, chlamydia tests.
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CommunityDrug reactions
HSJ’s exclusive last week about “entrepreneurialism” at the Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust drew some interesting reactions.
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Exclusive fluff
Notice has dropped into the End Game inbox of an “exclusive interview” published with Care Quality Commission interim chair Dame Jo Williams.
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CommunityLet's talk about death
A press release last week titled Let’s Talk About Death was particularly timely, coming amid hot debates about end of life care.
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BMA says no
One hsj.co.uk reader has come up with a tongue in cheek experiment, prompted by the British Medical Association’s anti-privatisation campaign.
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Life in the public [health] eye
It could be argued that public health minister Gillian Merron has had it a tad easy this year. With the exception of a warning that chlamydia should be avoided and a quote about shingles being nasty, she seems to have landed all the fun jobs.
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Red faced statisticians
“Christmas Eve top day of the year for NHS births - Boxing Day is bottom,” announced the NHS Information Centre last week.
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Great to good
Department of Health witnesses appeared to be feeling the pressure during the latest round of the Commons health select committee’s inquiry into commissioning.
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Lib Dem hedging
When is a political party health spokesman’s policy not his party’s policy? When it is Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb’s “Liberal blueprint for the NHS”, it seems.
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CommunityFeet first
If End Game readers are ever unfortunate enough to need an ambulance in the North West region, they can be assured the staff will be properly dressed from head to foot - as North West Ambulance Service has just decreed that ambulance crews cannot wear novelty socks.
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Community
A Wii fracture
Buried next to a New England Journal of Medicine study about a technique for communicating with patients in a vegetative state, blah blah blah, is a far more significant development: scientists believe they have uncovered the first ever Wii Fit fracture.
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LINks hitch
Members of local involvement networks still struggling to get off the ground - nearly two years after they were meant to be created - will have welcomed the Department of Health’s publicity drive over the past two weeks. But there is one hitch, End Game understands.
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Not too many tweets
Keeping up to date with mental health policy is about as high on Joe Bloggs’ agenda as dusting the picture rails or learning Esperanto.
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Community Partnership Awards - the winners in pictures
The winners of the Community Partnership Awards 2010 have been announced at a ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The awards, hosted by LGC and sister magazine HSJ, recognise excellence in partnership working across health, social care and local government
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CommunityHappy birthday, Helen Bevan
The NHS Institute’s director of service transformation Helen Bevan is known to never miss an opportunity for a learning experience, especially if she can combine it with rigorous exercise, ideally at sub-zero temperatures.
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Charlie Brooker + Morrissey = Mike Farrar?
If it were biologically possible for Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker (left) to have a love child with the Mancunian miserablist Morrissey (centre), their offspring would probably resemble a moody version of Mike Farrar, NHS North West chief executive (right).
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Foundations cussed
Research out last week, showing less than a quarter of people have had a real say on health and care services, chimed with the experience of End Game’s colleagues.