All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 171
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Public involvement - use strategy to buck the trends
Commissioners, stakeholders and public are tackling health spend issues together within one primary care trust's strategic approach
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Born in Bradford project takes on infant mortality
Bradford's infant mortality rate is twice the British average. An ambitious project is tracking the lives of 10,000 babies in the archetypal deprived, multi-ethnic city in the hope of understanding why. Emma Dent reports. Pictures by Rii Schroer
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Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember
This year could be the best for the NHS in England for some time. Challenges will not be in short supply, including the 18-week target, infection control, foundation status and maintaining hard-won financial stability. However, it should be the first year for a while that is not dominated by financial ...
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Streamlining interpreting services in the NHS
Changing the way interpreting services are used can save money and improve patient care, as Roz de Silva explains
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A guide to the new NHS consultation obligations
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act became law on 30 October 2007. As its name implies, much of it is concerned with local government matters. However, key sections look set to alter the consultation obligations of NHS bodies.
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Ethnicity recording: an unequal race?
Lord Darzi's vision for the NHS expects us to deliver 'effective, higher quality services that are safe, personalised to individual needs, and equally available to all'. Yet the Healthcare Commission's 2007 web audit of race equality found only 9 per cent of NHS trusts were publishing all that is required ...
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Dementia care: in search of the person behind the condition
There will be a massive rise in the number of people with dementia in the next 15 years. They will all require a gold standard of person centred care, where they are kept occupied and their identity recognised
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It’s all about the individual
This HSJ Award-winning training and quality development programme for educators teaches a thoroughly patient-centred approach. Stuart Shepherd is keen to learn more
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KSF – the challenges ahead
Affecting around 1 million NHS staff on Agenda for Change terms and conditions, the Knowledge and Skills Framework is now helping many NHS trusts to achieve their workforce priorities. It supports them in re-designing their services, as well as in developing and retaining their workforce and engaging with their staff. ...
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Teaming up for patient safety
Torbay Hospital, part of South Devon Healthcare trust, is on course to cut its MRSA rates in half for 2007.Torbay is part of the Health Foundation's safer patients initiative and is twinned with Musgrove Park Hospital, based in Taunton and Somerset trust.
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Gillian Hastings on a patient safety revolution
Working in quality improvement, we hear constant sound bites about the need to change the organisational culture in healthcare and develop a culture of patient safety. But what does this change involve and how can we help bring it about?
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Health Foundation leadership awards
The importance of leadership in making hospitals safer and increasing their quality of care has never been more prominent.
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All-parliamentary group discusses patient safety
Health minister Ann Keen used her background in nursing to give a personal account of her approach to improving hospital safety at December's meeting of the all-parliamentary group on patient safety.
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Business improvement qualification helps lean champions aim higher
Airedale trust's lean champions have earned national vocational qualifications in business improvement techniques, helping them in their drive to eliminate wasteful practices and enhance patient care.
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Try the human touch
Paula Hyde and Ruth Boaden look at how HR managers have an increasingly important role in boosting performance
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Perfect match
The training of more junior staff has been neglected in the past. But an initiative that provides match-funding for investment in their skills is a big boost for those in bands 1-4, reports Stuart Shepherd
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Jenny Rogers on skilful networking
A true leadership role involves sensing weak signals from a messy and complex environment, building relationships through informal coalitions across departments and organisations and learning to sell ideas to peers
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Managers who went from Richmond House to the NHS
Life at the top of the health service is enough to make even the toughest go-getter think of quitting, which is what our interviewees did - only to jump back in at a more grass-roots level. HSJ finds out about now and then
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Workplace health trainers
'Ambassadors' in the workplace are being equipped to promote healthier lives. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Will community treatment orders work?
Compulsory treatment orders are on their way but critics claim there is a worrying lack of evidence that they can help 'revolving door' patients, writes Mark Gould