All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 109
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Comment
Steve Onyett on medical leadership
The Darzi review has shed new light on the challenge of letting go of central control. The idea that staff can be clinicians, partners and leaders is an engaging way of conveying that leadership needs to be widely dispersed.
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Comment
Peter Reader on integrating healthcare
Lord Darzi's next stage review contains the seeds of potentially the greatest revolution the NHS has seen since it was formed - a commitment to seek expressions of interest to run 'integrated care pilots'.
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HSJ Knowledge
Delivering Darzi's vision for primary prevention
Knowsley PCT's public health practitioner model shows how GPs can become champions of prevention in primary care and deliver on Lord Darzi's public health promise. Matt Kearney explains
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality and value push is paying off
The NHS Better Care, Better Value indicators are designed to help organisations spot opportunities for improving productivity and efficiency.
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News
SHAs and trusts lock horns over future shape of workforce
The government’s NHS workforce strategy is sidelining trusts and fuelling rows with strategic health authorities, managers have told HSJ.Health minister Lord Darzi’s next stage review is being criticised for granting SHAs extra workforce planning powers and saying little about non-clinical managers.
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Leader
Workforce strategy should be driven by trusts, not regions
Among the wild cheering that accompanied most of Lord Darzi’s next stage review plans, there was a markedly more muted response to the workforce strategy.
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News
Trusts in the dark on their role in medics' regulation
Trusts are still unclear about their role in doctors' revalidation, 10 years after the idea was first mooted.
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News
No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths
No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...
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Comment
John Coakley on improving the patient experience
How can we improve customer care in the NHS? It is obviously important to seek the views of users of the service, its staff and the general public.
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HSJ Knowledge
Recruitment: tipped for the top
A tailored assessment toolkit is helping one trust assess leadership qualities, especially when making senior appointments. Madeleine Owen reports
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Supplements
Health inequalities: the human workshop
It is unacceptable that in the first decade of the 21st century, the length of a person's life is still determined by where they were born.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Counter Fraud Service: watching the detectives
The NHS loses tens of millions of pounds a year to cheating, but some observers are asking if the Counter Fraud Service is getting too tough. Helen Mooney reports
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Comment
Julia Riley on care of the dying
The Department of Health's end of life care strategy published earlier this month pledged to allow more people with terminal illnesses to choose where they die. Clinicians at the Royal Marsden have made this possible through a pilot scheme
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Leader
Mental health training shortage hits progress on safety
The Healthcare Commission's investigation into mental health inpatient services paints a troubling picture.
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News
Surgery president pushes for faster spread of innovation
Tackling variations in the quality of surgical teams would save more lives than investing in new drugs, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons has claimed.
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News
Inpatient mental health slammed as commissioners neglect services
Commissioners are neglecting mental health inpatient services despite endemic levels of violence, overcrowding and untrained staff, a damning review has found.Nearly a quarter of mental health inpatient beds are in trusts rated weak by inspectors, according to the first Healthcare Commission review focused on mental health inpatient services.
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Leader
Opening the door to clinical innovation
The medical world is looking to managers and surgeons to unlock the benefits of clinical innovation - and training is again the key.
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News
Bradshaw to bring in firms to boost GP commissioning
Private companies are to help practice based commissioning consortiums put together business cases that primary care trusts can understand.
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News
A shot in the arm for community health services
The government is promoting the social enterprise model of service provision, but there are other options available to primary care trusts. Ingrid Torjesen offers an overview
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News
Abolition of consultant and GP contracts is a 'logical' move
Abolishing consultant and GP contracts will be the 'logical conclusion' of successful integrated care organisations, NHS director general for commissioning Mark Britnell has claimed.