All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 134
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NHS staff wellbeing: get fighting fit
Attracting the best staff is essential to the success of the NHS - the next step is to keep them healthy. Julian Topping explains
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Patient safety reporting: the eyes have it
In the second in our series on improving patient safety, Alison Moore looks at a trust whose team of frontline 'risk eyes' has encouraged a good reporting culture
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NHS career development: moving to the private sector
The NHS offers many managers a career for life, but what is it like on the other side of the fence? Louise Hunt and Helen Mooney spoke to six long-timers who escaped their comfort zone and made the switch to the private sector
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Health spending: how much does it cost to save a life?
We know the economic outlook is bleak and there are growing concerns about how this will affect spending in the NHS. So it is timely to consider the extent to which healthcare spending yields patient benefits.
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Health tourism: don't forget your toothbrush…
Estimates suggest as many as 150,000 Britons will travel abroad for medical treatment this year. But how is health tourism likely to affect the NHS, asks Alison Moore
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Self-management: co-creating health
Clinicians are changing the way they work with patients and acknowledging that it is a partnership, says Natalie Grazin
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The Mental Health Act and the prison population
Prisoners' mental health needs must be properly assessed and provided for to avoid legal challenges, as Becky Fitzpatrick explains
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NICE issues draft guidance on absence management
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has produced the first draft of its public health guidance on long-term sickness absence management.
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Sexual health commissioning: making sense of contraceptive use
Sexual health is firmly on the national to-do list. NHS organisations are implementing the 2001 Sexual Health and HIV strategy.
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Put children at centre of services
A great deal of effort is being poured into strategic partnerships for children's and young people's health. Seamless communication between countless organisations will be critical
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HSJ reader survey: 2008 in review
We surveyed readers on their feelings about the last 12 months. This is what you told us
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HSJ's review of 2008: diamonds, debt and Darzi
The NHS’s diamond anniversary year began with Gordon Brown’s relaunch and ended with the health service paying the price for the banking sector’s profligacy. Richard Vize looks back over an eventful 12 months
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Foundation trust failure: who's for the chop?
As the original deadline passes, 80-odd trusts are lagging in the race to achieve foundation status. Sally Gainsbury ponders the fate of those that fail to hit the mark
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NHS personal branding: how to get staff to follow your lead
A strong image of leadership includes drive, self-belief and the ability to inspire others. Debbie Smith reveals the formula
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Alcohol dependency: glad tidings for safer drinking
A social care organisation is identifying and engaging dependent drinkers at three hospitals to help them turn their lives around
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Why end of life care should be recorded
Our work in end of life care suggests coding is being significantly under-recorded. This impacts on risk-adjusted mortality rates and issues relating to length of stay, which in turn has implications for organisations that compile data.
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Make tough patient choices a bit easier
Offering patients true choice in healthcare means giving them the right information at the right time and providing them with the skills and support to make informed decisions
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HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
DiagnosticsAlison MooreDiagnostics is one of the great success stories of the 18 weeks programme: the numbers waiting more than six weeks for a test have reduced from nearly 600,000 to less than 15,000 in two years.As well as helping the NHS achieve the 18 week target, this is better for ...
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HSJ Supplement / 18 weeks
Technology challengeDaloni Carlisle Clinicians identify problems that need solving, technologists develop solutions that the NHS then adopts as a way forward. Neat, but obviously in the real world it doesn’t actually work like that.In the real world there is a gap between the clinicians and industry that means innovators do ...
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HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
Sustainability/transformationIngrid TorjesenIn the past, elective care waiting time targets focused on specific parts of the patient pathway – waits for outpatient appointment or operations – rather than the whole journey. This how the 18-week programme is different.Patients have been followed and their whole journey mapped for the first time. By ...