All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 116
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Safer packaging in healthcare
Patients given medication, either over the counter or via prescription, need to know the facts about what they are taking.
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Private equity in healthcare
Over the last two years the number of private equity investments in the UK has fallen by over 50 per cent, due mainly to an absence of debt and the high returns required by investors.
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Competitive commissioning
Among the rapid changes facing the NHS at the moment is the increasing exposure of services to competition by commissioners in order to secure maximum value for money.
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Clinical human factors
Human factors are what shape our behaviour in the context of the systems of which we are a part.
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QIPP challenges
QIPP is a cornerstone of the government’s drive to make the NHS take a more preventative and patient-centred approach.
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NHS bullying
Dr Malcolm Lewis, Senior Lectuerer in Health Service Management at UCLAN, gives his opinion on the issue of workplace bullying within the NHS and reflects on the ‘depressing picture’ his research reveals (DAWN, 2010).
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Competion law and the health bill
The health sector needs to brace itself for a severe competitive shock, with the anticipated Health Services Bill expected to give Monitor the power to apply the Competition Act 1998 to the provision of health services and adult social care across England.
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Workforce efficiency assessment
Managing staff working patterns in order that there are enough staff to do a job safely whilst providing high quality care to patients without over-staffing is a complex business.
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Turn around destructive behaviour at work
With cost cutting and competition for resources, it is easy for negative attitudes to prevail and productivity to suffer. That downward workplace spiral can be reversed by following four simple steps, say Phil Bardzil and Shelly Rubinstein
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How to make clinical commissioning work
In Kent, clinicians and managers are working together as teams to concentrate expertise on specific clinical areas
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A quality shift in staff rostering
Software that allocates staff safely and appropriately while helping to meet their shift preferences is also helping to save trusts’ money. Jennifer Taylor logs on
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Book Review: Calm at Work
Little book has plenty to offer despite a few oddities, says Hannah Lowry
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Principles and practice of provider economics
Commissioners need to grasp the relationship between cost, activity and quality - and how providers make decisions. Matthew Bell and Richard Lewis explain
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How NHS trusts can raise their overall performance
Upping overall performance is a shared task, say Peter Noble and colleagues
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Major injury: how regional units take the crisis out of trauma
A group led by the Royal College of Surgeons has studied the benefits to patients and managers of a regionalised response to major injury. Helen Mooney reports
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Pre-Budget report video interview
HSJ editor Richard Vize discusses the pre-Budget report with Capita health director Neil Griffiths
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Understand the staff vetting and barring system
The scheme for ensuring people have appropriate credentials for working with vulnerable people have been updated. Shirley Wright outlines the changes