Stay informed, stay in front COVER STORY
HEALTH REFORM: A TALE OF CONTINUING FAILURE Professor Alan Maynard
MINDFULNESS, MEDITATION AND THE NHS Professor Mark Williams
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Dr Steve Boorman
IN THIS ISSUE
16 Assisted dying as a necessary end-of-life option Healthcare Professionals for Change is campaigning for a change in the law that will allow healthcare professionals to help terminally ill adults to die
18 The revised KSF A simplified and more flexible Knowledge and Skills Framework has been published to support staff development in appraisals to underpin high quality patient care
t h e e s s e n t i a l g u i d e t o h e a l t h s e r v i c e m a n a g e m e n t
70 Has electronic prescribing reached its tipping point? Will a GMC report raising serious concerns about the accuracy of prescribing in hospitals turn the tide in favour of e-prescribing?
20 Health and happiness Dr Steve Boorman on maintaining NHS staff morale and productivity
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22 Health care reform: a tale of continuing failure Professor Alan Maynard on why commissioners have largely failed to improve the efficiency with which scarce health care resources are used
28 Preparing for the next step The hand over of responsibility for commissioning from primary care trusts to GP consortia will require a huge amount of knowledge transfer
36 Mindfulness, meditation and the NHS
Mindfulness requires that those who teach it have themselves been taught and continue to practise it
40 The final taboo
Millions of British workers feel forced to lie to their bosses about taking stress-induced sick leave
60 Information from within A digestible chip-in-a-tablet sends information via an intelligent sticking plaster to patients about their medication and well-being
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