All Policy articles – Page 238
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS60: Job adverts over the years
Emma Dent on six decades of job adverts in HSJ - and how they have been a barometer of policy
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NHS60: 'It was the toughest two years of my life'
Being in the top job at the Department of Health means overseeing the biggest political football of all. Peter Davies and Daloni Carlisle hear six former health secretaries' memories
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NHS60: Who had a hand in policy?
The health ministry has conceded influence over the direction of the NHS to many different groups, from the family doctors of 1948, to the teaching hospital boards of the 1960s, to the professional managers and regulators of 2008. By Anna Dixon
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NHS60: A dramatic revolution
Daloni Carlisle charts 60 years of the developing role of the NHS manager
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NHS60: Retrospective
Former chief executives and health authority leaders compare their challenges and ambitions with the picture they see emerging for managers today. By Alison Moore
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NHS60: Frontline pharmacy
The community pharmacist’s invaluable role in dispensing prescriptions and advice is sure to expand into delivering some primary healthcare services, says Lloydspharmacy
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NHS60: If the care fits
Experts predict a future in which primary care will be delivered by a variety of suppliers in integrated packages tailored to individual needs, reports Ingrid Torjesen
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NHS60: The reinvention of hospitals
A ramshackle collection of impoverished hospitals dotted the NHS landscape in 1948. Anthony Harrison charts the transformation that has created the modern secondary care scene
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Healthy future for the NHS
The biggest challenge for the NHS in its seventh decade is to build a health contract with citizens that prompts many more to keep themselves well, says the consultancy Tribal
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Young people's sexual health
While the GP practice seems an obvious place for improving uptake of sexual health screening, funding issues are slowing progress, says Caroline White
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Keith Pearson on valuing the NHS
The Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya once said of her homeland: 'For us, the best time is always yesterday.' As we prepare for the 60th anniversary of the NHS, I look around and worry that too many people believe this is as true of the NHS today as Russia in 1990. ...
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Prison mental health services - jailhouse blues
Faced with huge numbers of mentally ill offenders, London's forensic mental health services are struggling to cope. Rebecca Norris reports
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Comment
Paul Stanton on local legitimacy in the NHS
In the first article of this series, I began to explore the nature and the scale of the challenges that confront NHS organisations and those who govern them in the first quarter of the 21st century.
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News
Royal College sets out alternative to polyclinics
The Royal College of GPs has published its alternative model to polyclinics - primary care federations, in which groups of GP practices would work in partnership primarily in existing buildings to deliver better patient care.
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Leader
Acute's leftovers won't feed public health
At the NHS Confederation conference, Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon offered the heretical view that the policy of tilting NHS spending towards public health is a mistake.
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News
David Cameron promises a bonfire of NHS targets
The Conservatives have pledged to scrap top-down targets for the NHS in a 'green paper' setting out their plans for the health service.
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News
Private care poses little threat to the NHS, finds IPPR report
The private healthcare industry poses little threat to the NHS, but the government should act to safeguard consumers and calm residual fears, a think tank has concluded.
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News
Darzi set to put commissioning at centre stage
Lord Darzi's next stage review is expected to put primary care commissioning centre stage and set national standards for the quality of treatment.
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News
Healthcare Commission warning on safety risk
Government proposals on regulation would weaken safety standards and allow risky services to operate without a licence, the healthcare watchdog has warned.
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Lansley slates DH regionalisation policy
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the Department of Health's attempt to shift performance management down to strategic health authorities.