All Health Service Journal articles in 21 September 2016 – Page 7
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Best Practice
New therapy assistant role enhances palliative care service
Entrant: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Category: HSJ Value in Healthcare 2014 / Value and Improvement in Clinical Support Services
Award: Shortlisted -
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Redesigning intermediate care to improve service and save money
Entrant: Care Plus Group
Category: HSJ Awards 2013 / Improved Partnerships between Health and Local Government
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Using focused conversations to improve staff engagement
Entrant: Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust
Category: HSJ Value in Healthcare 2014 / Value and Improvement in Communication
Award: Shortlisted -
HSJ LocalUpdated: Trust heading for unexpected deficit after governance failings
Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust had planned for £5.3m year-end surplus but had deficit of £11.1m by August Review conducted into finances after “concerns raised at a number of levels within the trust” “Changes” to planning assumptions “offset an underlying loss of financial control and a failure to fully deliver ...
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CommentBoards must make decisions with patients, not for them
It is crucial to get patients involved to design their own care plans and not dismiss patient experience as an additional cost during budget restraints
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Simon Stevens' summer offensive
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ LocalChair reappointed at major acute trust
WORKFORCE: The chair of London North West Healthcare Trust has been reappointed for another two years.
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News
Exclusive: Vanguards scale back plans due to funding shortfall
Vanguards allocated just a third of the transformation funding they requested Sites will relax timescales for implementation or prioritise only “core” workstreams Vanguard sites have told HSJ they have had to scale back their work developing new care models after receiving less than a third of the transformation ...
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HSJ LocalLeaders of CCG trio commit to merger by April
CCG leaders in Manchester committed to merger in 2017 Formal arrangement to be struck with Manchester City Council Plans mirror the merger of city’s hospitals The leaders of the three clinical commissioning groups for Manchester have committed to a formal merger by April 2017, according to an independent ...
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HSJ KnowledgeKey questions as extension of CQC ratings goes out to consultation
The Care Quality Commission must answer questions about its own systems before it can consider turning its attention to other sectors
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Shaping the STP narrative
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catch Up: Disciplinary hearings for acute chiefs; HSJ Awards shortlist
Your essential update on the week in health
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Best Practice
Improving safety culture in theatres
Entrant: Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Category: Patient Safety 2016 / Changing Culture to Improve Patient Safety
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NewsNHS managers face crackdown on conflicts of interest
NHS England consultation document suggests number of areas where declarations of interest should be made Senior managers face declaring shareholdings, paid positions, family relationships and political memberships Doctors could have to declare private practice earnings but other staff are not included NHS executives earning money from consultancy, advisory ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: Making the most of technology
Doing technology well involves negotiating multiple hurdles, from sceptical boards to lack of national direction, heard HSJ’s latest roundtable panel
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Setting the scene for the drama in store
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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NewsExclusive: Providers to compete to run new maternity mental health units
Providers urged to express interest in running three new mother and baby units to provide inpatient care to women with serious mental health problems New units will be funded with some of the £365m pledged to perinatal mental health care in July The units will be based in East ...
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NewsMerger CCGs appoint joint chair for new board
Three clinical commissioning groups have appointed a chair for a new joint board being established ahead of their planned full merger.
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CommentNow is the (earlier than usual) winter of our discontent
As talk hots up of old-school NHS disasters, thankfully Hodge’s memoirs and Labour’s woes provide distractions