All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 164
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Poet's play gets to bottom of prostate cancer
A new play by the popular poet Benjamin Zephaniah is helping to spread the word about cancer screening, particularly among African-Caribbean men
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Capping private patient income
As the debate over the private patient income cap governing foundation trusts intensifies, Oliver Pritchard takes a closer look at the legal background of the issue
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Andrew Castle on innovations in patient safety
Standardising clinical practice can go a long way towards improving patient safety, as one innovative programme in the US has shown. Andrew Castle explains
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Readmission is not simply correlated to length of stay
Over the past few years, length of stay has gone down while readmissions have gone up. It is tempting to see these two facts as related, but the truth is more complicated.
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Home-grown change will reshape the NHS
The number of primary care trusts needs to reduce further, but another top-down reorganisation should be avoided - this time world class commissioning will drive a natural, bottom-up change
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How to upskill your workforce
Upskilling the existing healthcare workforce is a way to improve services and enhance career progression, writes Tess Green
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Stimulating positive media coverage of the NHS
Staff in the NHS might be sick of seeing negative stories in the media, but the onus is on them to redress the balance, argues Stephen Pattison
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Funding the work of clinician scientists
Health Foundation fellowships offer clinician scientists the chance to carry out long-term studies into major areas of importance. We look at one project
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Looking for the latest leaders for change
Applications for round six of the Health Foundation's Leaders for Change programme are open.
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Building organisational trust in the health service
Even the best managers might find that their staff's sense of trust is dictated by factors outside their control, says Blair McPherson
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Health Foundation welcomes Brown's self-management pledge
The Health Foundation has welcomed prime minister Gordon Brown's emphasis on increasing support for patient self-management in his recent speech on the NHS.
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Richard Gleave on healthcare wholesalers
Mastering the latest management jargon is as much of a skill in the US as it is in the NHS. Even after several months, I am still a novice and get especially confused by the sporting analogies: it is easy to guess what is meant by a 'play book', but ...
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Jenny Rogers on embarrassing emails
About 25 years ago on a management development course I was taken to visit Hewlett Packard.
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How to close the readmission revolving door
New software takes the guesswork out of assessing readmission risk, helping services to target resources. Louise Hunt reports
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NHS chaplaincy: a spirited row
Chaplaincy is making its case to become a commissioned NHS service. Daloni Carlisle reports
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Why are there so few BME managers?
With the vast majority of senior NHS managers classed as white, why are there still so few from black and minority ethnic backgrounds? Charlotte Santry reports
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Equal... or else
The consequences are set to get a lot more serious for trusts which fail to meet their race equality obligations, writes Rachael Heenan
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Creating health-promoting hospitals
Liverpool's Cardiothoracic Centre and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital have developed public health strategies aimed at improving the health of hospital staff, patients and the wider community affected by the hospitals, as Dr David Taylor-Robinson explains
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How to spend less while doing more
New national reference costs data shows that in 2006-07 the NHS in England spent less cash on inpatient, day case and emergency care than in 2005-06. Scroll down to view the charts at the end of the story.
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'Twas ever thus: why Darzi is 90 years too late
In 1920 Lord Dawson, physician-in-ordinary to George V, called for the creation of what we now call polyclinics in a report that was well received even by the BMA. So why did his idea never take off, ask Ian Kendall and John Carrier