All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 124
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Career development
In the calls made for an increase in the quantity, quality and capability of clinical leaders there is a fundamental challenge. How to bridge the gap between clinical training and developing clinical leadership capacity for the future?
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Distraction and patient safety
I believe that distraction is one of the most powerful factors in errors and harm to patients in a hospital. To improve patient safety we need to be alert and watch out for distraction so we do not miss a trick in patient care.
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NHS governance
In the latest Apprentice series candidate James McQuillan was taken to task for writing in his CV that he would bring “ignorance” to the boardroom. While his choice of words was poor we knew what he meant - his outsider status would bring a new perspective to Sir Alan Sugar’s ...
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Advanced practitioners
As part of a wider programme of workforce modernisation in the North West, NHS organisations identified the need to develop the advanced practitioner role in 2005.
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Prescribing efficiency
GPs in the NHS are the gate keepers of an annual prescription spend of £8.3b in 2007/08. The paradigm is that GPs decide who should receive medication and more importantly, which type of medication is the most appropriate for a patient.
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HSJ KnowledgeGet under the skin of nursing’s real costs
The Royal College of Nursing’s briefing on payment by results stresses the need to understand individuals’ contribution to costs and quality, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeExtreme operations: a day in the life of NHS staff serving in Afghanistan
Fantastic facilities, intensively trained staff and copious quantities of blood are all in a day’s work for NHS staff serving in Afghanistan. And the health service could gain more from their new skills. Nick Golding reports
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HSJ KnowledgeRight care, right place, right time
Are you getting the flow of patients out of hospital right? Do you have the right level of care in the community? Find out how to do it at HSJ’s free online masterclass.
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Patient safety
The University Hospitals of Leicester trust was one of the first large acute trusts to sign up to Patient Safety First in June 2008.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to support NHS staff through retirement
Preparing employees for their retirement is good practice – and so is recognising that some staff will offer a valuable resource after they have retired, reports Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to ensure patients get the right care at the right time
Deciding when to move patients off wards and into community care settings is strongly supported by an appropriateness of care tool. Daloni Carlisle explains
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HSJ KnowledgeA guide to improving services for deaf people
Deaf people’s healthcare can be greatly improved by services tuning in to better ways of communicating with hearing impaired individuals, writes Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Leader’s Edge
Learn to see how you project yourself to your colleagues, says James Potter
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS smoking cessation: sticking with quitting
NHS stop smoking services’ 10th anniversary marks one of the strongest public health interventions of a decade - and there are plans to maintain the momentum. Stuart Shepherd reports
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS performance: GPs in the spotlight
Tight budgets mean PCTs must scrutinise all contractors to ensure they are providing the right value and quality of services - and this includes GPs. Graham Clews looks at the role of the balanced scorecard
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Leadership in patient safety
Sharon Beamish is chief executive of George Eliot Hospital is the deputy director of nursing at George Eliot Hospital
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Perioperative care
Over 90 per cent of acute trusts are signed up to Patient Safety First and are actively making changes within their organisations’ to reduce avoidable harm and avoidable death.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: How to really use LinkedIn
Get the most out of a website that can hook you up globally, says James Potter
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Fly on the wall tool
Health and social care are labour-intensive service industries which are currently facing enormous change. Achieving staff engagement, excellent leadership and clinically focused organisations, particularly when 1.3 million NHS staff members are involved, calls for some radical rethinking of about how individuals learn and may achieve change in their working practices.
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Healthy eating
In the first initiative of its kind in the UK, social marketing techniques have been used to promote the sustained improvement of nutrition and healthy eating among hospital employees.