All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 39
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use clinical supervision to increase the use of evidence-based practice
Clinical supervision affords clinicans and planners the time and application opportunity to engage with research and evidence that can inform professional practice in the day-to-day environment, argue Emily Steventon and colleagues.
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Comment'Can Public Health England improve the way we respond to pandemics?'
The Department of Health’s intention for Public Health England to strengthen the national response to public health crises alongside local bodies may not work in practice unless experiences of previous pandemics are learned from, write Drs Jacky Chambers and Andrew Rouse.
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NewsManagers to fly in to run straggling CCGs' budgets
The NHS Commissioning Board will not take on the budget responsibilities of clinical commissioning groups which fail to win full authorisation by April next year, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to establish IT processes to achieve clinical cost efficiencies
A London trust established a pathology IT board to monitor the trust’s investment in IT. Now, the trust is reaping the benefits of an approach that has helped deliver numerous process improvements and achieve significant cost savings.
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HSJ KnowledgeReaping joint benefits of streamlined hip and knee care pathways
One consortium’s approach to overhauling hip and knee care has brought efficiency and financial rewards while sparing patients from repeated trips to hospital. Debra de Silva and Sima Haririan explain.
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NewsEU laws 'putting patients at risk'
NHS patients are “at risk” because of European laws, the heads of two royal colleges have said.
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NewsLeadership and staff engagement 'critical' to hospital savings challenge - study
Effective leadership and staff engagement will be “critical” if hospitals are to achieve the lion’s share of the £20bn NHS savings goal by 2015, a new Nuffield Trust study has found.
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Comment'Deal with productivity variation, or risk the long term future of the NHS'
Only by swiftly adressing the issue of clinical practice variation and developing better evidence based practice can we stop the quality of NHS care eroding, writes Professor Alan Maynard.
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HSJ Local
New chief medical officer at Rotherham FT
WORKFORCE: A new medical director has started work at The Rotherham Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Doncaster and Bassetlaw FT appoints new medical director
WORKFORCE: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Sewa Singh as its new medical director.
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Comment'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow service line management can inspire improved behaviours throughout NHS organisations
Service line management can empower frontline clinicians to make the changes the NHS needs for future viability. The big challenge is changing the way NHS organisations are managed, says Chris Calkin.
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NewsClinical data regulation not robust, say experts
Leading doctors have called for an end to “incomplete data disclosure” and more robust regulation of information in clinical trials.
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NewsNursing care standards report unveiled
A report by Birmingham University’s Health Services Management Centre has urged for senior nurses to be given greater leadership responsibility in order to improve acute nursing care standards.
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NewsRemediation of doctors costing the NHS millions
Concerns about doctors’ performance are usually only picked up following a crisis, putting patients at risk and increasing the cost of remediation, according to a new report.
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HSJ Local
Yeovil struggles to recruit doctors to A&E
WORKFORCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is forming a strategic alliance with a neighbouring trust to help tackle recruitment problems in accident and emergency.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy shifting DVT management into primary care can improve clinical outcomes
DVT can be clinically very difficult to diagnose but early recognition and appropriate treatment can improve clinical outcomes.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Terrible Leader
Independent business consultant Jeremy Kourdi reviews Dan White’s The Terrible Leader.
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SupplementsThe future challenges facing pathology - an online Q&A
Burning questions such as what will drive collaboration between trusts to make savings for pathology drew HSJ readers to link up with an expert panel. Alison Moore reports from the online Q&A, sponsored by Roche Diagnostics.
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Comment'The Francis report will be the most important NHS event in 2012'
Spare a thought for Robert Francis. The weight on his shoulders must be immense. Part of his task has been to listen carefully hour upon hour to angry people, whose loved ones were failed by people and a public service meant to care and show compassion.