All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 173
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Solutions for reducing length of stay
The NHS could save up to £400m a year in length-of-stay costs with some simple measures, argues Andrew Webb
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NHS sick leave: supporting staff well-being
To cut sickness absence, employers must encourage workers to live healthier lives and provide programmes to help the long-term ill back to work, says Ben Willmott
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Ali Mohammed on job satisfaction
What makes you get up and come to work each day? Is it the challenge of the job? The working conditions? Recent Department of Health research suggests 10 usual suspects as answers, including 'having the skills and equipment needed to do my job', 'being treated with respect, trusted and listened ...
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Maggie Rae on action for equality
Christmas came early for me insofar as all the objectives I wanted to deliver were prioritised in the NHS operating framework. I was delighted to see health inequalities in there.
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Patient involvement: making it work
One initiative is giving patients and carers affected by cancer a greater say in setting the health research agenda. Liz Forbat explains
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Home truths from New Zealand's healthcare system
The UK and New Zealand are similar enough for them to learn from each other's very different health service reforms, writes Chris Ham
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Should the NHS pay for an unwanted child?
If a child is born following a botched sterilisation, should the NHS foot the bill? Ben Troke explains why the courts tend to say no
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60 years of eating and smoking
It was in the 'ninth year of austerity' - with the end of full rationing still six years away - that the NHS came into existence on 5 July 1948. The chief medical officer, reporting on the state of the public's health, declared the NHS had begun 'its colossal task' ...
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NHS 60: help mark the birth of an institution
This week HSJ launches six months of coverage marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the NHS on 5 July 1948.
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Most managers doubt 21st century NHS will stay free
Only one fifth of health service managers believe the NHS will be free at the point of demand in 60 years.
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Literacy and numeracy in healthcare organisations
Many organisations have a healthy employee development programme in place. But how many of these ensure their strategy embraces the entire organisation - including those who may need to brush up on their literacy or numeracy skills? Chris Pearson explores why a whole organisational approach to literacy, language and numeracy ...
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Updated tool for predicting re-hospitalisation
The most recent version of the patients at risk of re-hospitalisation case finding tool, PARR++, was released in November 2007 and is free to download or order on a CD from the King's Fund website.
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Prison welfare to healthcare
Louise Berktay talks to the people working to drive up healthcare standards at a Birmingham prison
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Overcoming inequality in NHS provision and employment
As the 60th anniversary of the NHS approaches, Helen Hally looks at what can be done to achieve race equality in the service
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NHS Networks creates stroke page
NHS Networks has launched a stroke page, with useful links and documents on the subject, together with links to the pages of all our stroke-related networks.
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Social enterprise - a world class solution?
The first batch of presentations from Social Enterprise - A World Class Solution?, a conference held inLondonon 15 November, are now available online. Further presentations will be added in due course.
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Clinical research presentations: patient benefit - the value of networks
The 2007 UK clinical research network annual meeting took place at the Kensington Conference Centre,Londonon 21 November.
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First national anaesthetic network launched
There are 80,000 hip fractures in England every year and this number is rising. Anaesthetic management of these patients is challenging and there are vast variations in the care delivered across the NHS.Richard Griffiths explains how a new network is helping to overcome these difficulties
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National IT programme: stepping into the unknown
Chief deployment officer at Connecting for Health Claire Mitchell talks to Stuart Shepherd about risk taking and realism in her role
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We survey managers on the past, present and future of the NHS
Over 1,600 managers gave HSJ their views on the past, present and future of the NHS. The results reveal that, while most plan to stay in the service until they retire, 80 per cent think the NHS will not remain free at the point of demand