All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 190
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PCTs under pressure to open doors wider
With the disappointing results from last month's primary care access survey, the government is expecting a fast response from PCTs. David Stout suggests competition between practices could be the answer
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Lean principles
Lean working principles have enabled Airedale General Hospital cut referal to diagnosis times for suspected bowel cancer patients.Developed by staff at Airedale NHS Trust, the project saw the Lean Healthcare Academy, based at Airedale General Hospital, West Yorkshire, working with its founding partner, The Virtual College in Ilkley, to streamline ...
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Day-case rates on nationwide increase
Research by Dr Foster and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement analyses productivity savings across a range of areas including reductions in emergency admissions, statin prescribing and increases in day-case rates. For the latter, the most recent quarter shows a saving of £12m, down from £16m in quarter 1 ...
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Strategies for managing the market
The Care Services Improvement Partnership has rolled out a pilot information-gathering project in East Lancashire to help commissioners and providers work together for patients. Tony Ryan and colleagues explain
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Managing the commissioner-provider divide
Primary care trusts face a confusing array of options in handling their provider arms, says Jeremy Roper
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Paul Allen on a fashionable performance
'All teams should take a long hard look at their communication and decision-making processes'
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The language of business
A national English language teaching project has proven that setting resource materials in the context of healthcare increases learners' interest in applying for jobs in the sector. Kath Jones explains
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Apollo mission to improve
A free tool created by the national diabetes audit enables GP practices to save time by extracting data from primary care clinical systems automatically
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New acting chief executive
Tim Straughan has been appointed acting chief executive of the Information Centre for health and social care, after the departure of Denise Lievesley.
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Improvements in heart attack treatment
The Information Centre for health and social care has welcomed the publication of the fifth Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project.
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Learning to let go
More than half of employees spend some of their holiday worrying about work. Managers could help staff plan ahead and get ready to relax
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Tongue twisters
English language training opportunities that assist access to and performance in healthcare jobs are under threat, says Paul Gander
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Ken Jarrold on staff carers
'Caring is a burden and for some carers it can be overwhelming, making work difficult and sometimes impossible, and severely restricting life chances'
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Heroes face up to a day full of crisis
The HSJ Challenge gave participants a series of hair-raising 'problems' to resolve, report Charlotte Santry and Victoria Vaughan
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Andrew Castle on the perfect process
'Just knowing what should be happening, or what we think is happening, does not help us make informed decisions'
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Green shoots of recovery
In the last of our series on organisational turnaround, we peer through the breaks in the clouds around two once-troubled trusts
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Informing NHS Choices
NHS Choices has been working closely with the Information Centre for health and social care over the past three months to help primary care trusts check and validate the data on this official government website, which covers more than 40,000 organisations and comprises more than 1 million pieces of information.
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Strategies for tackling obesity
A number of approaches have been successful in delivering cost-effective obesity management in the NHS. Ailsa Brotherton and Carol Pinder explain
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Legal briefing: when your private life isn't so private
Employees whose out-of-hours activities compromise their employer's reputation could face serious consequences, writes Claire Reynolds
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Hospital health advice and toolkit
Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships for Health, the public health network forCheshireand Merseyside, has added two useful documents to its page.