All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 132
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E-rostering and the European working time directive
Can e-rostering help to meet the challenges posed by the European working time directive?
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Big break for the clinical coders
Improving coding is a priority for the NHS. Robin Gammon explains how one trust built and trained a dream team of coders
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The north-south alcohol divide
The annual cost of alcohol harm to the NHS is nearly £3bn - and rising. Around 6 per cent of all hospital admissions in 2006-07 were related to alcohol and this figure is increasing by 80,000 every year, according to the government alcohol strategy Safe, Sensible, Social.
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Teenage pregnancy: mothers tide
A 10 year strategy has seen a reversal of the once surging rate of teenage pregnancy in many areas - but in others the numbers of teens choosing to have a baby remain alarming
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Performance management: parting ways with senior managers
Parting with an underperforming senior manager calls for careful procedures, advises Andrew Rowland
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What makes hospital ward staffing costs vary?
With ward staffing costs consuming over a third of the annual pay bill, trusts know how important it is to make the most of nursing resources.
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Alcohol screening at pharmacies boosts public health
Local pharmacy staff on the Wirral tactfully help people think about how much alcohol they drink, reports Lynne Greenwood
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Does quality differ across UK nations?
Almost 10 years since constitutional devolution can we see any differences in the quality of healthcare provided in the different UK populations, based on the emerging differences in policy?
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Management coaching: down to the crossroads
A multi-agency worker felt her confidence going to pieces. Could coaching give her a new direction? Isobel Gowan explains
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Management styles: the leader of the pack
Are you an architect or an implementer? Esther Cameron and Mike Green describe five styles of leading
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Improving stroke care: fast thinking
Despite being one of the country's biggest killers and the largest cause of disability, stroke only recently gained a national strategy. Now the drive for faster intervention is giving it a much needed boost. Jennifer Taylor reports
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Independent providers: commission in bulk for a better deal
Commissioning mental health services from the private sector could be costly and risky. Then a team in Lancashire stepped in to help
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Rise in women hit by mental illness
The Department of Health wants primary care trusts to improve access to psychological therapies for people suffering from common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.
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Emergency planning: could you deliver in a disaster?
A hospital that once dealt with the aftermath of a plane crash has emergency planning down to a science. Stuart Shepherd reports
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Team coaching: strategy for success
With little sense of purpose, one team was struggling to get anything done. Coach Sheila Williams explains how she helped
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NHS career coaching: take control
Feeling downtrodden after a bruising divorce and unappreciated at work, one manager turned to coach Dorothy Larios to regain control of her life
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Personal health budgets: the patient is always right
Will individual health budgets help patients get the best care or leave the NHS struggling with increased costs and new ethical dilemmas? Kaye McIntosh reports
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Measuring healthy eating
If diets matched nutritional recommendations there could be 70,000 fewer deaths in the UK each year.
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Service line reporting - a frontline perspective
Professor David Fish talks to Stuart Shepherd about how service line management can improve patient care
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NHS single rooms: preferences and privacy
While getting a one bed room on the NHS is a dream come true for many patients, for staff moving to single room acute care delivery it is an opportunity to break away from old working methods. Alison Moore reports