All Cancer articles – Page 69

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    Hospital franchises - quantum leap

    2008-05-12T09:00:00Z

    The Royal Marsden is pioneering a satellite cancer unit at another hospital. Will the franchise model play a big part in the era of choice and competition? Helen Mooney finds out

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    Transforming urology services

    2008-05-09T09:00:00Z

    Changes to the urology service at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust have eliminated long outpatient waiting lists. New patients are seen within 10 days of referral, while patients with established diseases are seen in disease-specific, nurse-led clinics.

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    A case for integrated mental healthcare

    2008-05-06T09:00:00Z

    A patient's experience is not fragmented, discontinuous and segregated so why is their treatment? Samantha Allen and Heather Hurford argue for integrated care

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    Mental health equality drive

    2008-04-28T09:00:00Z

    Partnerships with imams are breaking down barriers between mental health workers and Sheffield's Pakistani community

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    Restructuring: united for growth

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    The idea behind the UK's first academic health science centre is to combine research and service delivery. Ann McGauran met the team who sowed the seeds of its success

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    Andrea Sutcliffe on giving credit where due

    2008-04-17T09:00:00Z

    At the 2008 chairs' conference held in January, health secretary Alan Johnson ended his keynote address by expressing his 'enormous gratitude' for the important work chairs do for the NHS.

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    Connecting in cancer

    2008-04-03T11:06:28Z

    The recently published Cancer Reform Strategy, which sets the direction of cancer care for the next five years, has emphasised the importance of accurate and timely cancer statistics information to plan and evaluate cancer care and prevention activity, building a world-class cancer service for NHS patients in England.Cancer registries for ...

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    GPs in the dock: case for the defence

    2008-04-03T09:00:00Z

    Around 90 per cent of NHS work is done by family doctors, so why is there so much heat around their pay and workload? The Royal College of GPs' president answers the critics

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    Dementia could gain same priority as cancer

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    A parliamentary report has called for dementia to receive the same priority as cancer and the Department of Health to appoint a dedicated lead for the condition.

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    Cancer strategy: earlier, faster, shorter - and more data

    2007-12-13T09:00:00Z

    Last week the government promised a further £370m to reform cancer, with a focus on prevention and shorter hospital stays. But selective fast-tracking plans have drawn criticism. Claire Laurent reports

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    Infection control: back to the boardroom

    2007-11-05T09:00:00Z

    Informing the board and protecting patients were the key strands of one trust's infection control drive, writes Alison Norman

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    Lean thinking: what does it take?

    2007-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Lean thinking and six sigma have a long history in GE Healthcare and this experience is helping develop future leaders and drive change in NHS trusts.

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    Mental health: unhappy old age

    2007-10-29T09:00:00Z

    Dementia is far from the only mental health problem for over-65s, yet the millions who struggle with depression are scandalously neglected. Stuart Shepherd reports

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    US health: Sicko's grim diagnosis

    2007-10-25T09:00:00Z

    It may be naive and polemical, but Michael Moore's controversial documentary Sicko reminds us we should treasure the NHS, says Noel Plumridge. Below, Empire magazine's Helen O'Hara reviews the film

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    Barometer: public health October 2007

    2007-10-25T09:00:00Z

    October has seen a tentative increase in confidence over halting the rise in childhood obesity by 2010, according to this month's HSJ Barometer of public health directors. August's low of 2.91 has risen to 3.52 out of 10.

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    Foundation trusts applications: shape up or ship out

    2007-10-22T09:00:00Z

    The deadline for all acute trusts to apply for foundation status by 2008 has proved unrealistic. What now for those that have not made the leap? Helen Mooney reports

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    Tackling the causes of blindness

    2007-10-16T09:00:00Z

    Health Foundation clinician scientist fellow Dr Robert MacLaren has made significant breakthroughs in tackling the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, previously thought to be incurable.

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    Implementing NICE guidance

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Oxleas Foundation trust The project implements NICE guidance on Schizophrenia across a London based mental health trust. An audit measured trust practice against the guidelines and against a technology appraisal for the use of atypical antipsychotic prescribed to service users.The scheme concentrated on focusing on what clinicians need at ...

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    Information-based decision making

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    WinnerLeicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Cancer NetworkService provision for the two cancer centres in Leicester, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR) was improved and standardised using Clinical Information Analysis (CIA) data.In the autumn of 2006, the CIA Programme presented data to the Network Oncology Group which showed the different treatment approaches being given ...

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    Clinical service redesign

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Salford PCTA new model of care for neuroscience disorders was developed in order to meet the 18 week targets.The existing service model was overwhelmed, with 11 week waiting times for first outpatient appointment, 13 weeks for a routine MRI and a further ten weeks ...