All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 100
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Make the best of your healthcare workforce
With budgets under pressure, it pays to identify the most promising individuals and plan their career development
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GPs: out of hours and out of pocket?
With the white paper urging that GPs resume providing urgent out of hours services, contracts will have to change, say Lucy Johnston and Julie Jordan
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Venous thromboembolism
VTE is a significant cause of mortality, long-term disability and chronic ill health. It is thought that there are around 25,000 deaths from VTE each year in hospitals in England.
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Public health: Is your activity on target?
In the second part in our series on social marketing, Stuart Shepherd looks at an online toolkit that can help improve productivity and service quality by targeting resources effectively
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The Equality Act 2010: an equal opportunity
This October, equality in the workplace will take a leap forward as the Equality Act 2010 becomes law. Lorraine Heard looks at the implications for the NHS
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Book Review: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic exemplifies the spirit of clinical leadership, says Claire Lemer
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Gypsies' and Travellers' health: the road to greater inclusion
Gypsies and Traveller community members have been adopted as ‘health ambassadors’ to educate NHS staff in the East Midlands. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Updated CQC regulations
As of April 2010 the Care Quality Commission introduced a new regulatory system which aims to ensure that people can expect services to meet essential standards of quality and safety that respect their dignity and protect their rights.
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You’re at the top of the NHS – here are some tips to help you stay there
Lisa Rodrigues has been a trust chief executive since 2002. Here she passes on the benefit of her experience
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Quality through CQUIN
St Andrew’s Healthcare is a major provider of mental health inpatient services.
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World class service in radiotherapy
Tim Cooper looks at some of the latest developments in radiotherapy to achieve a world-class service
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Saving money with social marketing
Few in the public sector are more keenly aware of the burden of cost savings than the NHS.
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A rapid return to high quality NHS reporting
Michelle Rhodes and Jim Hatton explain how their trust’s emergency department acted decisively to bring performance reporting and data quality up to the mark
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Social marketing in health: the right tools for the job
Social marketing is playing a growing role in strategies to improve population health. In the first of two articles Stuart Shepherd examines the National Social Marketing Centre’s social marketing planning guide and toolbox
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Are we supporting NHS middle managers?
Middle managers are at the front line in delivering effective care, yet they are often neglected and undervalued
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Spend on consultancy
The chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander may have pledged that health would be protected from the 25 per cent departmental spending cuts this autumn, but it is abundantly clear that “efficiency savings” are still right at the top of the NHS agenda.
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Book review: Clinical Leadership – bridging the divide
Get past the them and us attitude, say Alexander Young and Jonathan Bloor
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Health Inequalities: local problems, local solutions
A Department of Health programme is uniting local organisations to address key determinants of health, write Lucy Reynolds, Russell Collins and Sam Shah
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Commitment to health outcomes
“The government believes that we need to…encourage behaviour change to help people build healthier lives”.