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HSJ Knowledge
High-risk medications
The key intervention that Medway foundation trust has put into practice is the reducing harm from high-risk meds intervention. This aims to reduce harm from five high-risk medicines with a specific focus on insulin.
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HSJ Knowledge
Critical care interventions
Colchester General Hospital signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008. One of the key interventions they have targeted is the ventilator care bundle, which is part of the critical care intervention that aims to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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CommentCally Bann on the vagaries of leadership
It should be the best week of the year, what with Sir Seymour still away at his annual shoulder rub with the hoi polloi at the Chelsea Flower Show and the whole of the SHA away for a snuffle in the trough at Liverpool.
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NewsHealth science centre appoints managing director
The UCL Partners academic health science centre has appointed David Fish as managing director.
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CommentSafe staffing levels, safe patients
Staff shortages, equipment shortages, inadequate supervision, delays all round, poor observation of sick patients, staff not sufficiently trained, call bells going unanswered, drugs not given at all or on time, problems with cleanliness, insufficient beds - is there an acute trust chief executive that can answer “none of the above”?
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CommentHow to create a culture of safety in the NHS
Almost every week, there are examples of poorly co-ordinated healthcare in the national papers: a “hospital blunder” here, a “scandal” there. But what will really wake clinicians up are the failures at Mid Staffordshire.
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NewsTwo health boards to pilot direct elections
Members of the public will be directly elected to the boards of NHS Fife and NHS Dumfries and Galloway from next year, Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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NewsReform or 'go broke', Obama tells US doctors
The US must reform its health insurance system or face “going broke”, president Barack Obama has told the country’s doctors.
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HSJ KnowledgeGP phone-line jams create more hospital admissions
Few things are more frustrating than an automated message saying your phone call is in a queue and will be answered shortly -or just getting the engaged tone. When you are ill, it can be rather more than just one of life’s little irritations, writes Kaye McIntosh.
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NewsWHO declares swine flu pandemic
The World Health Organisation has declared a swine flu pandemic.
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NewsAndy Burnham makes prevention a mission for the NHS
Health secretary Andy Burnham has said prevention of ill health will be a major plank of health policy on his watch.
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NewsAndy Burnham: NHS must maintain strength in face of swine flu
It is “vital” that the NHS maintains its national strength as the health service battles a swine flu pandemic, health secretary Andy Burnham has warned.
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NewsCampaign to tackle NHS pension 'myths'
NHS Employers is launching a “myth busting” campaign to prevent a backlash from resentful private sector employees struggling in the recession.
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NewsNHS staffing levels 'to remain static'
Funding shortfalls and cutbacks mean NHS staffing levels will likely remain static at best over the next five years, experts have said.
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NewsBe honest about weaknesses in quality accounts, FTs told
Foundation trusts have been urged to be “honest” with the public about weaknesses in their quality reports and accounts.
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NewsNHS survival may depend on a ‘series of big changes’
The NHS may not survive unless dramatic action is taken to manage investment cuts, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsAndy Burnham: don't sideline NHS quality
Raising the quality of services is the best way to improve productivity as NHS spending is cut, and this should not be a time of “gloom”, the new health secretary has told HSJ.
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CommentA guide to clinical champions and commissioning
Building effective clinical leadership and engagement is the key to improving services, writes Jackie Kay
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CommentMidwifery and the Clinical Leaders Network
Raj Kumar In this month’s column for HSJ, Debby Gould from NHS London talks about how the Clinical Leaders Network is helping her to work collaboratively with other midwifery departments, helping to improve maternity services. NHS London has decided to use the CLN initially to focus on ...
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NewsIt's official: NHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity rose by 1.2 per cent in 2007 and 0.7 per cent in 2006, official statistics show, reversing a seven year stretch of declining productivity.