All Community articles – Page 6
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CommunityDial something beginning with 9 for emergency
End Game has identified a potential gap in the Department of Health’s awareness campaigns.
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CommunityAcute sarcasm
HSJ reported in late September that Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust’s foundation application was being blocked by health minister Mike O’Brien.
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Brave new title for QIPP
The task of running the NHS with likely funding cuts appears to have gained yet another catchy title.
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CommunityScrabble champion
As if working in the health service were not sufficiently challenging, End Game has learnt that one NHS back room worker has bigger fish to fry.
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Regulated behaviour
HSJ last week revealed former Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy had complained about the Commons health select committee’s patient safety report.
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Care Quality Combat?
The Care Quality Commission currently sits safely in the knowledge it comes top of the list when anyone types the acronym CQC into Google.
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CommunityCourses for horses
To mark last week’s chief nursing officer’s conference, Today programme attack dog John Humphrys was set on chief nursing officer Christine Beasley and Unison head of nursing Gail Adams to thrash out whether nurses really need degrees.
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Dutch fluffiness
If you think British politicians are unhelpful in their tendency to pay more attention to Daily Mail headlines than rational decision making, pity the poor Dutch.
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CommunityChewing the fat
Endgame has been pondering the issue of obesity this week after a press release for a new weightloss franchise dropped into the HSJ inbox.
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CommunityFreudian QIPP?
Whoops. QIPP tsar Jim Easton opened his blog post on ournhs.nhs.uk last week by explaining: “I’m responsible for looking at the issues surrounding how we achieve quality while almost meeting the financial challenges ahead.”
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CommunityInspiring tunes
Delegates at the NHS Employers conference were chomping at the bit to hear Department of Health workforce director Clare Chapman’s speech.
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CommunityPolicy streams
Now you may be worried about an endless stream of new initiatives and top-down reorganisations heading your way some time after June next year.
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Herbal medicine
Another anecdote from health minister Ann Keen that proves kids say the funniest things.
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CommunityMarathon manager
With all the talk of pay freezes and spending freezes, you might have thought the life of an NHS manager was cold and barren enough these days.
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What's in a name?
A “popular” competition to find a name for a new health centre in Manchester attracted “countless entries”, according to a press release received by HSJ.
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CommunityHSJ Offer - Free cinema tickets to see Harry Brown
Registered users can get free cinema tickets to see the new film Harry Brown. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited
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CommunityCheese balls
Last week the health policies of the two leading political parties were made to look decidedly cheesy.
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CommunityBonfire of the parking lots
Nothing inflames (geddit?!) the public like hospital parking fees - but the people of Hastings have gone a step further. The bonfire society built three 40ft pig effigies with snouts in a giant trough, which were torched in an early bonfire night celebration.