All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 136
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Data Driven Service Improvement, supported by the NHS Information Centre
Winner: Ealing PCTThe introduction of patient experience tracker handsets has shifted power to the front line, giving the public near-instantaneous feedback on services
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Patient Centred Care, supported by Cerner
Winner: Blackburn with Darwen teaching PCTBy setting up its drop-in Healthy Legs clinic offering patients fast diagnosis, the winner has prevented serious illness and saved over £500,000
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Improving Care with Technology, supported by System C
Winner: West Midlands Ambulance Service trustA technologically impressive system that allows accident and emergency to get up to speed with patients' data as it is captured by the ambulance crew
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Primary Care Organisation of the Year, supported by Bupa Commissioning
Winner: Sandwell PCTReconfiguration posed a challenge that our winner more than met, notching up great achievements in public health, MRSA reduction and finances
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Best Social Marketing Project, supported by the National Social Marketing Centre
Winner: Stoke-on-Trent PCTAn 'excellent' social marketing project that set out to reduce smoking rates during pregnancy in Stoke-on-Trent and was judged nationally replicable
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Secretary of State's Award for Excellence in Healthcare Management
Winner: Tameside and Glossop PCT, community-based service for patients suffering from lymphoedema
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Managing Long Term Care, supported by Sanofi Aventis
Winner: Torbay Care trustIntegrated teams provide holistic care to patients in Torbay, with services accessed through a co-ordinator who takes referrals and fixes problems
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Acute and Primary Care Innovation, supported by BT health
Winner: Barts and the London trustThis project set out to improve cardiovascular care in north east London, an area with some of the worst figures for coronary disease outcome
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Acute Organisation of the Year, supported by CHKS
Winner: Cambridge University Hospitals foundation trustA comprehensive drive for transformation meant our winner slashed MRSA bacteraemias and waiting times and raised day of surgery admissions
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Improving Patient Access, supported by NHS End Waiting
Winner: London NHS Diagnostic Service with Croydon FederationThe Diagnostics in the Community pilot has been able to bring ultrasound, echo and MRI diagnostics to Croydon, the largest of London's populations
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Six steps to integrated NHS workforce planning: step four
Are you considering your healthcare workforce plans? The Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning can help.
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Six steps to integrated NHS workforce planning: step five
Are you considering your healthcare workforce plans? The Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning can help.
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NHS in recession: when good times turn bad
New hospitals on hold, health workers striking and severe underfunding were all effects of previous recessions. Andy Cowper ask what the latest crisis may mean for the NHS
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Rethinking NHS out of hours care
A fictitious 82-year-old who likes a drink has helped a PCT to rethink how it delivers out of hours care. Daloni Carlisle explains
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NHS time management: achieving efficiency
NHS managers, if your time is being wasted on pointless chores, bin the boring bits and limit the endless meetings, says Jenny Rogers
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat is causing GP referrals to rise?
The 15 per cent growth in GP referrals to hospital in quarter one 2008-09 is putting pressure on both providers and commissioners (see first graph).
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Give lifesaving care at a stroke
An Essex trust is proving what fast stroke response can achieve, by introducing a specialist acute unit. Mark Hunter explains
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Is cancer campaigning skewing health priorities?
It is a disease that grips both public and media attention and has become a dominant force in health policy as a result. But is vociferous campaigning over cancer care skewing priorities, asks Emma Dent
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Helen Bevan on NHS innovation
Innovation is a core theme for the next phase of NHS development. Innovation is about doing things differently or doing different things to achieve large gains in performance.
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Improving older people's mental health
A consultant clinical psychologist is proving that group analysis work with older people with mental health disorders can be successful.