All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 89
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News
Experts voice concerns over 'cyclical NHS sackings'
The NHS should be less ready to “junk” managers when things go wrong, senior figures have said.
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Conservatives to let patients choose individual consultant
The Conservatives have set out their intention to give patients more choice over the individual clinician providing their treatment.
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NewsGP pay changes: worst hit PCTs revealed
The Department of Health has published a list of the primary care trusts which will be most disadvantaged as a result of changes to the way GP pay is allocated.
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HSJ Knowledge
Safer Care: improving general practice safety
As the Safer Care programme extends its work into primary care, general practices have been piloting a global trigger tool designed to help GPs identify, measure and act on patient safety warning signs more quickly and systematically
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HSJ Knowledge
Safer Care: leaders in the field
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has established the Safer Care faculty, a group of clinicians who act as facilitators on the Leading Improvement in Patient Safety programme. Three of them talk here about why the role is so important
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HSJ KnowledgeSafer Care: an introduction to improving patient safety
In this special report on improving patient safety, Bernard Crump highlights the the Safer Care programme and how it has driven improvements across more than 60 acute trusts
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CommentKieran Walshe on evidence based decision making in the NHS
NHS managers need to read and engage with the latest data and evidence on health service organisation - and researchers must present this in forms busy managers can use
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CommentSteve Onyett on leading the NHS for alignment
An earlier column explored the first two of the Department of Health’s change principles for the NHS: co-production and “subsidiarity”. Both seek to get people working together to effect change by enabling them to fully exercise their power and authority.
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NewsBullying: the 'corrosive' problem the NHS must address
Sir Ian Kennedy’s parting shots and last month’s staff survey both warn of a culture of bullying in the NHS. Charlotte Santry analyses where and why the bullies are found
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Leader
Budget confirms that clinicians must accept responsibility for managing money
The arid financial landscape for the health service confirmed in yesterday’s Budget means the days of clinicians avoiding responsibility for managing money are over.
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Budget 2009: Improve NHS productivity or cut services - King's Fund
The NHS will face “significant cuts in its services” from 2011 unless it can become more productive, the King’s Fund said in response to today’s Budget.
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Anger over GP quality decision
The Department of Health has angered senior figures in primary care by appointing external consultants McKinsey to advise a panel of experts on how to measure GP quality.
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NewsNHS managers' relationships with staff to be scrutinised
NHS staff will be asked detailed questions about their relationships with managers for a review commissioned by the Department of Health.
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CommentResponding to the European working time directive
The European working time directive provides an opportunity to reassess how junior doctors are trained in the NHS, writes John Coakley
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Hospital trust opens GP centre
A hospital trust in Warwickshire has become the first to take over the running of a GP-led health centre.
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CommentImproving patient care through the Clinical Leaders Network
The NHS Clinical Leaders Network has the potential to improve patient care in the North East, says Dr Simon Eaton
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NHS hospitals still failing to protect patient mealtimes
Almost a fifth of hospitals in England and Wales are not halting work at mealtimes to help patients eat, five years after the launch of NHS Estates’ protected mealtimes initiative.
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CommentMichael Marmot on why health inequalities matter
The Department of Health’s anti-obesity Change4Life scheme may work wonders. I hope it does.
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NewsGP quality: the final frontier for inspectors
So far general practice has remained impervious to the expanding remit of the inspectors. This week the King’s Fund revealed proposals for a new GP quality inquiry that has even won backing from the profession. Helen Mooney reports
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NewsCompetition panel launches inquiry into consultants' private work
The NHS co-operation and competition panel is expected to launch its first inquiry this week into NHS consultants working for hospitals other than their main employer during their spare time.