All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 183
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Community matrons: new guidelines on fitness to practise
New guidelines have been published to support the development and implementation of community matrons and case managers. Lucy Dennis explains
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Tackling the causes of blindness
Health Foundation clinician scientist fellow Dr Robert MacLaren has made significant breakthroughs in tackling the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, previously thought to be incurable.
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Patient choice: a systematic approach
Another 'once in a lifetime' review of the NHS is upon us and despite the inevitable cynicism, there appears to be good reason to believe that Lord Darzi's review will bring a step change in the quality of care, writes Natalie Grazin
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Glossary
Healthcare resource groupsThe national tariff is structured around case-mix measures called healthcare resource groups. HRGs represent groups of clinically similar treatments and diagnoses, which consume similar levels of healthcare resource.Market forces factorThis is the formula intended to counterbalance regional economic differences by adjustments to reference costs.Reference costsThe cost of each ...
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Useful PbR documents and websites
Implementing PbR: information on the 2006 rollout. DoH PbR Implementation Support Guide, March 2006. Introduction, pages 4-52006-07 PbR technical guidance: executive summaryRevised PbR tariff 2006-07Delivering the NHS Plan, the document that outlined the intention of PbRDoH introducing PbR. In particular the executive summary, pages 4-6Annexes to the introduction to PbR, ...
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PbR timeline
April 2002: Delivering the NHS Plan says payment by results will ensure NHS funding is backed by a new approach to efficiency.April 2003: A tariff is applied to extra non-elective activity for 15 procedures, including standard hip and knee operations across all acute trusts.April 2004: The first 10 foundation trusts ...
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Payment by Results briefing
In the April 2002 budget, the government announced the introduction of patient choice and the abolition of locally negotiated block contracts between primary care trusts and providers. Instead, it set up a system that would see hospitals paid for the activity they undertook under a system called payment by results.
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Raj Persaud on what motivates us
The reasons for our actions may not be as straightforward as they seem, says Raj Persaud
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Commissioning: skills for the future
Since commissioning at primary care level offers an unrivalled opportunity to shore up the foundations of the NHS, pitching in is the way ahead, suggests Andrew Jones
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Patient involvement: young clients can become the boss
Getting users to shape a support service for young people was a tricky balancing act but worth the effort, writes Lizzie Neill
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Helen Bevan on personal assistant power
We have just completed the initial test phase of our NHS Productive Leadership Team programme. The participating local NHS leaders have shown it is possible to reclaim a day's worth of time a week by improving their e-mail and meetings management and adopting new personal work processes, writes Helen Bevan
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Foreign affairs: migration and the NHS
Uncertainty about the number of migrant workers in Britain means that planning for demand on local NHS services may become increasingly tricky, writes Alison Moore
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Stephen Ramsden on doctors leading patient safety
Doctors' involvement in a hospital's patient safety drive is bringing about transformation, says Stephen Ramsden
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Legal briefing: Alzheimer's drug ruling
The High Court hearing this year over the issue of the NHS funding drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease forced NICE to state its principles with great clarity. Now it has to stick to them, says David Lock
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Mental health at work: down should not mean out of a job in the NHS
People with mental health problems often get chewed up and spat out of work. The NHS can lead the way in breaking a vicious circle that has a high price for both employee and employer, says Steve Shrubb
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Data Briefing: new era of mental healthcare insights
National mental health policy is moving on from the detailed specification of service inputs required by the national service framework to a greater focus on care outcomes.
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Julian Topping on the value of occupational health
The NHS could be a standard setter in healthy workplaces, says Julian Topping, and the new edition of the NHS Employers handbook will be invaluable
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NHS Employers and BMA publish findings on practice funding
NHS Employers and the British Medical Association’s GPs committee have published a joint report on the outcome of the consultation on the review of the global sum allocation formula for practice funding.
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Online resources for healthy workplaces
Stuart Shepherd dips into NHS Employers' latest update of The Healthy Workplaces Handbook, also known as the 'Blue Book' – and now also available online
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The seven failings of really useless leaders
Professional development gurus have identified all the pitfalls for aspiring great leaders and put them into a book. Stuart Shepherd reports