All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 107
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HSJ Knowledge
NICE awards promote shared learning
With the next stage review promoting quality over cost, now is the time to develop better ways of sharing best practice. As the closing date for the annual NICE awards nears, HSJ talks to last year's winners
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HSJ Knowledge
Super patients should use their powers wisely
The government is set to empower patients with personal budgets for care, but clear rules must guarantee choices are well informed and cost-effective, say Anna Dixon and Rebecca Ashton
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HSJ Knowledge
Measure the mix of interventions
All primary care trusts must become world class by commissioning services that 'add life to years and years to life' and specifying the outcomes to be delivered.
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Leader
Divide and rule: time for the UK to debate its four health systems
Among the oceans of data washing around the NHS, it is striking that government has avoided collecting one of the most illuminating sets of figures - comparisons between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Leader
Clinical code-breaking jeopardises safety
The Audit Commission's exposure of a high error rate in clinical coding has an impact far beyond payment by results.
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News
Huge contrasts found between UK nations
Patients in the UK’s four nations have dramatically different experiences of the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Medics may lose out on job agency rights
Civil servants are trying to amend a legal 'technicality' that grants junior doctors the same rights as employment agency workers.
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Comment
Michael White on the golden age of the NHS
I have been sitting in patchy sunshine reading Rejuvenate or Retire? the Nuffield Trust's anthology to mark the NHS 60th anniversary.
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HSJ Knowledge
National service: health policy performance across the UK
A&E attendances and emergency admissions have shot up in recent years - but only in England. Alison Moore asks why the record is so inconsistent across the UK
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Comment
Ginette Camps-Walsh on measuring patient satisfaction
Lord Darzi's next stage review sets out that the NHS will begin systematically measuring and publishing information about the quality of the care it provides. Measures will include patients' views on the success of their treatment and the quality of their experiences.
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HSJ Knowledge
Service integration - the future of the NHS
Working with the North West Clinical Leaders Network made redesigning local services on the Wirral less of a struggle, as David Rowlands explains
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Comment
David Levy on the changing face of clinical leadership
Clinical leadership is changing in response to Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, but the changes have not been uniform across the health community.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS North West celebrates diversity in the health service
NHS North West has paid tribute to people from black and minority ethnic communities in the region for their contribution to the health service over the last 60 years.
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Comment
Ken Jarrold on Darzi and nursing
While Lord Darzi's review of the NHS is to be warmly supported, it is astonishing that it contains almost no reference to nursing or to ward and team leaders.
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HSJ Knowledge
Publishing mortality rates - the HR challenge
The NHS Choices website has published death rates for four types of surgery at NHS hospitals in England. Claire Reynolds explains how this could affect performance management
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Comment
Jon Restell on keeping managers in the NHS
Sixty per cent of the people who will make up the NHS workforce in 10 years are already employed in the service. This is the latest fancy dan statistic to drop into any workforce discussion.
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News
Emergency units traumatised as Darzi plans develop
The next phase of reform will see major trauma go to regional centres, leaving smaller A&E units facing an uncertain future. Will they become unviable? Alison Moore finds out
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News
PCTs fight for local decision making on controversial drugs
Primary care trusts must retain their right to decide whether patients receive controversial drugs in exceptional circumstances, PCT leaders have warned.
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News
Lib Dems challenge MRSA performance
Nearly two thirds of trusts failed to hit the government's MRSA target, the Liberal Democrats have claimed.
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Leader
Beleaguered NICE is powerless to call off postcode lottery
The NHS is caught in a media storm over access to drugs, with NICE at the centre.