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Leader
The NHS begins 2020 with good reason to hope for a better decade
The NHS stands at the threshold of a new decade facing both potentially its most difficult winter in decades and the most hopeful medium-term future since the 2008 financial crash.
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Leader
A very NHS compromise
The planning guidance is based on a new compromise between Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt, but it underlines the fundamental problems afflicting the NHS, writes Alastair McLellan.
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News
Patients 'being coded as palliative to cut death rates', inquiry told
Patients with diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are being coded under palliative care to reduce death rates, a leading expert has told the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry.
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HSJ Knowledge
Book Review: Made to Stick
You can make sure your messages have a strong grab, says James Potter.
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Book Review: The Solutions Focus
A focus on simple solutions is just too simple to win over Liz Hedgecock
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How to make the most of your estate
Space utilisation is the science of making the most of locations but it is not simply a matter of shifting healthcare activities around, says Ian Greggor
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Why are women still being barred from leadership?
While women are increasingly seeking leadership positions in healthcare, many organisational barriers persist, say Fiona Pathiraja and Marie-Claire Wilson
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QIPP and care plans for long-term conditions
Care planning consultations can yield positive results for patients with long term conditions, as Shahid Ali and colleagues explain
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Patient data safety
The NHS organisations are frequently in the firing line for allowing information breaches of sensitive personal data. The Information Commissioners Office has said that nearly a third of reported breaches involve NHS trusts and related bodies.
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How to reduce COPD admissions with personal care plans
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the second most common cause of emergency admissions to hospital; one in eight acute emergency admissions is the result of an acute exacerbation of the condition.
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Electronic prescribing
Picture the scene. A doctor is attending a Fitness to Practise hearing at the General Medical Council. She stands accused of making a prescribing error which has lost a patient his life. The doctor is now fighting for her career.
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Clinical leadership
There are countless definitions of leadership, but the majority concur that leadership is about working with people and organisations to achieve goals and to produce change. While overlapping with management, there is an enhanced focus on change, vision, inspiration and empowerment.
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Book Review: Managing Oneself
The first thing to strike me about this book was its (lack of) size. Managing Oneself is a reprint of an article from the Harvard Business Review, and at 55 small pages it is a distinctly slim volume.
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The big four enablers that bring about big change
Large-scale change in healthcare often fails, but the latest challenge in England of improving quality while reducing costs is possible with a four-pillar approach, write Penelope Dash and colleagues
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Lean in mental health
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust forecast a saving of £16 million and a 100 per cent increase in clinical time spent with patients.
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NHS Choices in the Big Society
Andrew Lansley’s “information revolution” looks like it will be a boost for NHS Choices. Has the time come for it to fully play a role in improving health?
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Career transition as a path to reform
The recently published white paper has thrown leaders and staff in our strategic health authorities and primary care trusts into uncertainty about their futures.
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Single patient rooms
This article, based on the experience of the USA, outlines key issues that UK stakeholders should mull over while considering the change from mixed wards to single patient rooms.
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Making the most of clinical leaders
Whichever way you look at it, ensuring a supply of high quality clinical leaders is a top priority.
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Healthcare for people with learning disabilities
Recent years have seen a series of high profile reports criticising the NHS for offering inadequate healthcare to patients with learning disabilities.