Health Service Journal Health Service Journal Health Service Journal (HSJ) is a news service which covers the British National Health Service, healthcare management and health policy. The "Poor Law Officers' Journal" was established in 1892. In 1930 it changed its name after the passing of the Local Government Act 1929 to the "Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review", then in 1948 it became the "Hospital and Social Service Journal". In 1963 it became the "Hospital and Social Service Review", in 1973 the "Health and Social Service Journal" and the "Health Service Journal" in 1986. "HSJ" was commercially published from 1997. It
Royal Commission on the National Health Service Royal Commission on the National Health Service The Royal Commission on the National Health Service was set up by the Wilson government in 1975. It was to consider the "best use and management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS". The Royal Commission reported in June 1979, by which time the government had changed. It recommended, among other things, that the administration of the Health Service should be simplified by eliminating, in most cases, a tier of management, a recommendation which appealed to Patrick Jenkin the new Secretary of State. Area Health Authorities were abolished in 1982. The