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Editor’s Comment 05 News 14 Company News 17 Inbox 18 Second Opinion 28 Comment 86 Buyers Guide 94 Events 95 Subscription 96 The Last Word


CPD & E-LEARNING 54. Returning investment John Boileau, programme manager for innovation at the NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement, discusses the NHS graduate ROI scheme.


DECONTAMINATION & STERILE SERVICES 64. Keeping up with infection Tracey Cooper, president of the Infection Prevention Society (IPS), talks about their new strategy and inspiring aspirations for the future.


E-PRESCRIBING 66. Electronic prescribing John Thornbury, director of ICT at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, speaks about its new integrated e-prescribing system.


CANCER CARE 71. Triaging skin cancer through teledermatology Chair of the British Teledermatology Society, Dr Saul Halpern discusses the controversial use of teledermatology in diagnosing cancer.


RISK MANAGEMENT 73. Opportunity for NHS to get more from less A small software company has beaten industry giants to the punch with an application that is changing the way the NHS works.


WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 76. Mobile working


The Manchester mHealth ecosystem is the most ambitious multi- partner mobile healthcare initiative in Europe, Adam Hewitt reports.


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61-65 EDITORIAL BOARD


Dr Dave Haslam is a General Practitioner in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire and Clinical Director


of the National Obesity Forum. He specialises in obesity and also holds positions as Trustee of the Foundations Charity and is Executive Director, PCOS UK.


Prof Matthew Swindells


is Chair of BCS Health, Chair of the Charity Trustees at


Imperial College NHS Hospital Trust and Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Global Consulting at Cerner Limited.


Susie Sanderson is Executive Board Chair for the British Dental Association, Honorary


Treasurer and Board member of the Council of European Dentists and a member of the Board of Medical Education England and its subsidiary Dental Programme Board.


Dr Mike Knapton is Associate Medical Director (Prevention and Care) at the British


Heart Foundation, and also the Medical Director for the combined Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs.


Nina Pinwill is the Associate Director and Appraisal Project Manager for Topic Selection at


the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).


SECTIONS


COMMENT 28. Changing with the times


Chief operating officer Dr Gillian Leng believes the impact of NHS Evidence will only increase with the advent of clinical commissioning.


INNOVATION & EFFICIENCY 36. QIPP and how to drive through initiatives Leigh Cantero, interim head of performance & transformation at NHS North Central London Cluster, gives practical advice on delivering QIPP.


MENTAL HEALTH 48. Understanding schizophrenia Professor Sir Robin Murray, chair of the newly launched Schizophrenia Commission, talks about the 100th unhappy birthday of the condition.


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