All Opinion/columnist articles – Page 58
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Emma Dent: getting on the hospital ladder?
HSJ's announcements service recently carried the news that insurer Combined Insurance believes that a significant number of people would pay more for a home that is close to good hospitals.
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Andrew Alonzi on legal requirements of the Mental Health Act
When the Mental Health Act 2007 is fully introduced, the existing Mental Health Act 1983 treatability test will be replaced by a new appropriate medical treatment test.
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Helen Bevan on the productive theatre
Hot on the heels of the successful Productive Ward, the NHS Institute has begun the Productive Operating Theatre programme in response to great demand.
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Michael White on Brown's plans for health
Gordon Brown's Big NHS Speech, to which HSJ gave front-page treatment last week, was full of virtuous declaration about what needs to be done to manage rising - and costly - demand in healthcare systems around the world.
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Simon Stevens on Brown's first health speech
Until last week, Gordon Brown had been surprisingly - even painfully - quiet on where he thought the NHS should be headed. But last Monday he finally showed some leg, in the form of his first major health pronunciamento since moving into Number 10.
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Media Watch: organ donors
Prime minister Gordon Brown's Damascene conversion to presumed organ consent was, naturally, a hot topic for the press.
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Maggie Rae on action for equality
Christmas came early for me insofar as all the objectives I wanted to deliver were prioritised in the NHS operating framework. I was delighted to see health inequalities in there.
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Media Watch: winter bugs
The message this week was that if you are a patient with an infection, stay well clear of the NHS.
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Sophia Christie on managing cultures in the health service
Naturally an optimist, I always like to start the new year reflecting on emerging opportunities. Primary care trusts had a lot to get excited about in the last few months of 2007 with the development and launch of world class commissioning. The experience has been reminiscent of the publication last ...
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Michael White on health in the new year
All right, so the Royal Marsden Hospital nearly burned down last week and around 100 wards in 44 hospitals were closed as norovirus swept the country. But it's the start of another year - happy new year - so let's be cheerful.
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Emma Dent on the year ahead
A happy new year to you all, readers, and I trust 2008 finds you in good health and not in the grip of the grim-sounding norovirus that ruined the festive season for several of my acquaintances.
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Your Humble Servant: the operating framework
I checked every envelope and couldn't find David Nicholson's personal Christmas card to you. But I did find the operating framework for the NHS in England 2008-09 in your e-mail.
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David Lee on managing risk
One of the joys of NHS management is that you learn something new every day - sometimes an awful lot. Take, for example, the assurance framework and risk register. Not long ago, if I'd been asked about them in a pub quiz I'd have had to guess. But now I ...
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on an NHS Christmas
Over the holidays, NHS managers will need to stay on the ball to keep their organisations running smoothly
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Your Humble Servant goes Christmas shopping
I hadn't noticed personal shopper in my list of duties on my job description, but am happy to report that I have been able to get all the presents from you for the people on your list.
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Media Watch: super-surgeries
Is it a GP practice, is it a shop? No it's a super-surgery - the answer to patients' prayers (possibly) but not necessarily good news for doctors.
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Michael White on super-sizing the NHS
Huge comprehensive schools which became dysfunctional over time? Huge new 'Titan' prisons which will almost certainly be hard to manage? Ditto hospitals?
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Stephen Ramsden on service co-design
When will we stop paying lip service to patient involvement? Can we truly say 'we are putting the patient at the centre of everything we do'?
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Emma Dent on the Manchester doughnut
Aha, a response to my last column about the state of Manchester. Architect, researcher and consultant Wayne Ruga, who has been working with Salford primary care trust on developing a 'human-centred culture', writes to congratulate me on writing the 'unspeakable'.
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Noel Plumridge on registering with a GP
Last time I invited responses to two questions: how to choose a GP and why bother now that direct access services are so good?