All Community articles – Page 7
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CommunityGold diggers
Times are hard. Amid talk of pay freezes and “tough decisions” it seems some NHS hospitals are helping staff sell their jewellery.
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CommunityInfection control stage dive?
Hospital infection experts from all over Europe descended on London last week to hear the NHS success story in combating rates of hospital associated infections.
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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.
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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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Community
Postcode lottery
End Game is always quick to point out the gaffes of red faced health managers and policy wonks, so it seems only fair to highlight blunders closer to home.
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CommunityGeorge Lechat, therapist
Many NHS staff have spent years lobbying and marching to gain official recognition from regulators, but perhaps they should try running around in circles or catching mice instead.
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Feeling the pinch
We know things are getting tight for MPs with their weekly cleaning bills capped at just £40 each, but poor health secretary Andy Burnham really seems to be feeling the pinch.
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CommunityFake fake fags
We all know about the dangers posed by cigarettes - but what about fake cigarettes?
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Community
Don't blame the civil servants
Mike O’Brien, so successful as a junior minister that he has been one almost continuously since 1997, has an unfortunate habit of upsetting civil servants.
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CommunityHSJ Competition - Win a World Diabetes Day Prize
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Community
In a muddle
Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, the NHS Confederation’s chief executive Steve Barnett was keen to extol the virtues of managers and clinicians working together to develop innovative ways to improve patient care and reduce cost.
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Community
Keep me waiting
Fresh from causing controversy at the Conservative conference, Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill caused another stir at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust diversity summit.
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Community
The other half
With talk of job losses and pay cuts abounding, NHS staff are gearing up for a zero sum game, accusing other clinical professions of being underworked and ineffective.
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CommunityThe three Es
If education is all about the three Rs, it seems that health, under the Tories anyway, will be focused on the three Es.
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CommunityJumping the pay cut gun
You might have expected the Royal College of Nursing to quickly denounce the Tories’ plans to freeze pay after they were announced last Tuesday. But, by the end of the day, HSJ had not heard a thing.
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Community
And it started with a kiss...
The Sun may have turned blue, or perhaps bluer, urging readers to vote Conservative. But another traditional Tory newspaper appears to have gone over to the other side - at least that’s how it appeared at the Labour Party conference last week. And all it took was one kiss.
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CommunityHealth secretary spotting
End Game indulged itself in a childish game at last week’s Labour conference in Brighton, namely I Spy former health secretaries.
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CommunityBradshaw's new brief
Former health minister Ben Bradshaw must be really attached to his new brief as culture secretary.
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CommunityPoles dancing ahead on fraud
Poland edged it over England on the health front this week. But how? I hear you ask.
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Community
On the menu
Flamboyant chef Keith Floyd may have died this month but his memory is living on, at least in one hospital.