All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 177
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Commissioning for public health - changing priorities
Public health work has too often been isolated from other primary care trust functions. Now trusts in the North West are in the vanguard of efforts to ensure public health priorities drive commissioning, reports Daloni Carlisle
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NHS continuing healthcare - is your trust compliant?
Is your trust compliant with the national continuing care framework? If your answer is 'what framework?' then read on - this could be your wake-up call. Hilary Finegan explains
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Corporate manslaughter - know the law
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force on 6 April 2008. David Firth explains how trusts should prepare themselves
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Mental health: no-one wins in homicide blame game
Often inspired by media hysteria, inquiries into homicides by mentally ill people cost the NHS millions each year and produce little real change, says Christine Vize
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GP2GP
It’s a scenario familiar to all GPs: a patient with complex problems registers with the practice and has a crumpled list of their drugs. Their notes come through six weeks later, with a faded printout accompanied by handwritten sheets and numerous hospital letters.Clinicians in the new practice have to do ...
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A personalised input into role redesign
Community support nurses have been adding their input to a role redesign exercise at South Birmingham primary care trust.
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Data Briefing: Is your PCT being overcharged?
How does a primary care trust (or GP practice or commissioning group) know if it is getting value for money? Where is it paying more than expected? Likewise how does a hospital know where it is charging more or less than expected?
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Staff engagement - advice for managers
What can health service managers do to ensure their staff are motivated and engaged? Greg Brown offers some pointers
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Ambulance trust contact details
The NHS Networks contacts directory now includes full details of ambulance trusts as well as acute trusts, primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and mental health/care trusts.
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Pressure ulcer audit tools
Pressure ulcer audit tools have been developed by the Greater Manchester essence of care network to improve diagnosis and management of pressure ulcers.
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NHS cancer services - are we meeting the mark?
The conference NHS Cancer Services - Are We Meeting the Mark? is being organised by the Scottish cancer networks on 29 February and1 March 2008atHeriot-WattUniversityinEdinburgh.
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Coping with change in the health service - a guide for managers
The reality of life is not only that change is inevitable, but that the pace of change is increasing and will most likely continue to do so. Chris Howe explains what managers can do to keep their heads above water
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Teaching PCTs conference presentations
The presentations from this year's teaching primary care trust national conference are now available online.
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The nature of networks
What is an NHS network and what is the best way to organise one? Mike Simpson explains the ins and outs
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Answers to the HSJ 2007 Christmas quiz
Christmas quizAnswersNoel Plumridge1 (a). This is not to be confused with payments to consultants in the DH commercial directorate, which at around£100,000 per day cost rather more than 1 per cent of turnover. 2: (c). The takeover involved arrangements for handling Good Hope’s accumulated debt.3. (b). The plug was pulled ...
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David Amos on HR reform in the health service
HR reform is sweeping public and private employers - 53 per cent of organisations have restructured their HR function in the past year, and 81 per cent have done so in the last five years
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A guide to world class commissioning
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations
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Race equality monitoring and diabetes
The Healthcare Commission has found few trusts obey data law on ethnicity. Caroline White looks at the implications for diabetes
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Keeping non-executive directors in the NHS game
Non-executive directors in the NHS are increasingly being recruited from business backgrounds. How do they cope with such a different environment, asks Alison Moore