All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 195
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David Amos on stellar communications
'Meetings, forums, networks, committees, workshops, seminars, boards, conferences - all are labels for the continual gatherings that occupy the precious time. Effective communications underpin whether these hour-guzzling interactions match their purpose'
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Improving access to psychological therapies
The Department of Health is seeking.to extend the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies pilot programme.
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Kate Silvester on tackling the 18-week target
To achieve a total process time of 18 weeks from GP referral to first treatment, there must be no waiting list delaying any of the hundreds of administrative and clinical tasks required to get a patient safely through the system. So what is the process?
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HSJ supplement: how employers are shaping education
Welcome to this HSJ supplement on skills development, sponsored by Skills for Health.
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Someone to squeeze: meeting patients' needs
A report into ways to meet what patients need and demand of the NHS garners wisdom from leaders of major organisations, writes Mark Gould
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Myth-buster: staff famine
In the second of a new series, Stephen Black challenges another NHS untruth
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New dataset to improve renal care
The Information Centre for health and social care.has introduced a new national renal dataset, which will provide the NHS with the information it needs to plan future renal services.
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Helen Bevan on freeing up your time
'The leaders we studied typically spent 70 per cent of their working lives in meetings. Yet only 36 per cent of attendees made a significant contribution to the meetings'
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Jenny Rogers on asking for feedback
'It may be true that I seem bullying,' one client informed me, 'but this is just firm management in action'
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Legal briefing: private care homes and the human rights anomaly
Under current legislation, the Human Rights Act.applies only to public authorities and those performing public functions - not.to private care homes. Corinne Slingo and Rachael Heenan explain the law and its implications
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Maggie Rae on cynicism and scepticism
'Cynicism crushes enthusiasm and energy and is deeply damaging'
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Strengthening the role of managed clinical networks
A new document from the Scottish Executive Health Department reiterates the core principles underpinning the development of managed clinical networks and covers issues such as integrating such networks.with other NHS bodies, leadership and management, patient and carer involvement, accreditation and information technology.
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Unlocking care: improving the health of prisoners
Many PCTs struggle to provide for the specialist needs of prisoners. But a different way ahead is emerging. Alison Moore reports
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Asylum seekers and refugees conference update
Presentations from the second national conference for nurses and health visitors working with asylum seekers.and refugees, held in Birmingham in April, are now available to download from the NHS Networks site.
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London PBC forum archive
The London practice-based commissioning.forum has closed its doors, for the time being. The network may be resurrected in the future but in the meantime NHS Networks still has all the useful documents on practice-based commissioning that the forum generated.
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Anaesthetists' network opens
A new network has been established as a resource for NHS.anaesthetists ito discuss topics related to hip fracture.
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Healthy communities supplement
The Healthy Communities programme is aimed at helping local government get a better grip on its growing role in health. A two-year initiative due to end next March, it is funded by the Department of Health but is being managed by the Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA).The programme is meant ...
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Stephen Thornton on spreading innovation
'The journey from idea to implementation is not an easy one. We need to make sure the ideas we use are the ones fired by the strongest flame and that there are many mirrors within reach.'
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New research could predict how NHS policies will perform
A new approach to estimating and comparing how selected interventions affect NHS productivity could help predict how policies will perform before they are rolled out, according to the Health Foundation.
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Sunny outlook: weather and health
A joint project with the Met Office is delivering health benefits for patients in Torquay, says Alison Stephens