All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 142
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Community treatment orders: benefit or burden?
The introduction of community treatment orders will pose significant challenges to local service providers. Mark Barnett explains
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Patient and public involvement leads to satisfaction
The draft NHS constitution has stirred only apathy in many quarters.
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Dying: open debate on the last taboo
Dying is a part of the life cycle yet many health professionals are afraid to discuss it. We must start talking about this if we are to give patients the best chance of a good death
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Electronic tracking system cuts down on missing medical records
Traditional methods of keeping track of case notes have been overhauled at Walsall Manor Hospital in favour of a new electronic tracking system.
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Plymouth health bodies enhance telecommunication systems
Over the past few years, Plymouth Healthcare Community has been building a state of the art communications infrastructure to support the delivery of healthcare services.
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London mental health trusts reap benefits of new IT systems
New IT systems delivered as part of the NHS London IT programme are now being used in 60 per cent of London's mental health trusts, helping the NHS deliver better, safer care to patients.
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New workforce planning tool unveiled
The National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare has developed an integrated workforce planning process designed to put NHS Wales at the forefront of workforce planning.
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Designing healthcare environments
These days designers don't just do dresses, they can also sketch out new environments that can improve the lives of patients and public service staff, says Deborah Szebeko
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Super trusts: unite and conquer
Five of the country's top performers are banding together to gain international renown for their research and healthcare. Will these new supercentres lead to competition or collaboration in their pursuit of glory? Ann McGauran finds out
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Rooting out health service CV cheats
Fake CVs are a problem in the NHS. But, unlike Alan Sugar, the service cannot afford to ignore it, says legal expert Philip Farrar
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Making lean thinking work in the NHS
To be successful, lean principles have to inform everything an NHS organisation does. Here, the chief executive of Royal Bolton Hospital foundation trust explains how he and his staff are putting this into practice
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Focusing on health inequalities
Bristol primary care trust is using an enhanced equality impact assessment to reduce health inequalities by transforming the way it allocates funds
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Charities and the NHS private finance conundrum
Should NHS organisations set up charities to help them run PFI projects? Ted Powell examines the legal issues involved
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Advice for PCTs on managing provider arms
Managing PCT provider arms is not a straightforward matter, as Jeremy Roper explains
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Widening gap in life expectancy
Inequalities in health are a key concern for health policy in all five countries of the UK and Ireland.
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Healthcare funding: is there enough to go round?
As new treatments and an ageing population put ever more pressure on health systems across the world, future governments will have to rethink the way that they are funded.
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Non-executive directors' pay: how much is enough?
Peter Smith compares and contrasts non-executive directors' fees in the public and private sectors and explores how much NHS organisations should be paying NEDs
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NHS change strategy: everything going like clockwork
Stockport foundation trust has put lean thinking at the heart of its successful early compliance with the European working time directive. Stuart Shepherd explains
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Publishing death rates: no dead certainties?
There has been a degree of disquiet about publishing mortality rates. Supporters hoped this would lead to greater transparency, quality and patient choice - but has reality matched expectations? Daloni Carlisle reports
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Local community gets involved in NHS budgeting
In the UK's first health-related participatory budgeting event, residents in Thornhill, Southampton were invited to vote on which health and well-being projects they thought would best meet the health needs of the community.