All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 115
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Three Moves Ahead
Learn business tactics from the chess board, recommends Rupert Wainwright
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS productivity: how to maximise the year ahead
Health and social care services need to fully engage frontline staff, not just leaders, to meet financial constraints while safeguarding quality delivery. Phil Kenmore explains
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HSJ KnowledgeAssessment centres: do your staff measure up?
A London foundation trust used assessment centres to ensure its frontline managers were on-message and up to the job. This is how they did it
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HSJ KnowledgeHealth improvement collaboration: top tips
Health and care professionals from the eight biggest cities outside London are collaborating to share expertise in tackling inequalities, reports Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ KnowledgePrivate patient debt: it pays to check for eligibility
Private patient debt costs millions. Lucy Suddaby finds out how to recover cash from those ineligible for NHS care
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Illness prevention
Since its redefinition in 1974 - before which it included local authority health departments - the NHS has never really taken on a significant preventative role. It is still focused on the treatment of acute illnesses.
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Local breastfeeding support
Commissioning Local Breastfeeding Support Services, published in October last year by the Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families, aims to assist commissioners and primary care trusts in “providing coherent services that will promote breastfeeding and reduce inequalities”, as set out in Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures – ...
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Trauma service transformation
The Healthcare for London programme is carrying out a clinically driven service reconfiguration that will ensure world class care at all stages of the patient journey. The Healthcare for London major trauma team explains how they have tackled the challenge of centralising trauma care in the capital.
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Quality improvement and cost reduction
Classic strategies for major corporate turnaround have always included, among others, quality improvement and cost reduction.
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Low clinical priority procedures
This article describes how a primary care trust’s low clinical priority procedures were implemented by a clinical health psychologist working across primary and acute settings.
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Swine flu planning
Good planning and preparation cannot remove the pressure of swine flu but it does put the NHS in the best possible position to respond, says Michael Caley
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Medication errors
Mark Thomson considers the role of newly available technologies in tackling patient safety
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Public health workforce development
Towards the Best Together is NHS East of England’s 10 year vision, developed through consultation with clinicians, other NHS staff, patients and the public, for the NHS and the region’s population of 5.6 million. It is based on an ambition to deliver the best health service in England.
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PCT membership schemes
NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland have developed a membership scheme which they believe is unique in its approach.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Change by Design
In the context of the urgent challenges facing the NHS, Change By Design is both timely and significant. And, while booksellers’ shelves bow under the weight of organisational thinking and change management manuals, there is a sense of daring, optimism and humanity running through its chapters that strikes a more ...
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HSJ KnowledgeTackling social exclusion: an accessible answer to a huge unmet need
Homelessness, drug or alcohol dependency and poor mental health can combine to exclude people from care but access can be greatly improved, reports Ann Dix
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Telehealth and telecare
With the UK’s ageing population and ever more effective treatments for long-term health conditions placing immense amounts of pressure on public sector budgets, the urgency to deliver more-for-less has never been greater.
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Nursing standards
In September 2010 the Nursing and Midwifery Council launched their standards for pre-registration nursing education.
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HSJ KnowledgeMedicines management
A review in 2007 by the Healthcare Commission into effective medicines management showed that 92% of mental health service users contacted had taken medicines.
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International recruitment
With a shortage of healthcare staff in the UK, overseas-trained professionals play a vital role in the NHS.