All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 200
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How Louth looks after older patients with mental health needs
Louth County Hospital's in-reach team combines mental and physical healthcare for older patients, to reduce pressure on hospital beds and promote independence.
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Ruth Hussey on prevention
By now, New Year's resolutions will have been made and broken. Many people will have pledged to adopt healthier lifestyles, and many column inches will have been devoted to such ambitions. Often the messages are complex, with competing advice on what is important and how to achieve one's goals.
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Neil Griffiths on measuring and managing
'My concern though is that the dashboard will be working in a vehicle in which we still have the clutch pedal on the passenger side, the brake in the back and the steering wheel in the boot.'
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Dave Roberts on QOF and chronic diseases
'As well as supporting QOF payments, the QMAS provides the NHS with a database of public health information on the prevalence of chronic and long-term illnesses.'
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New improved information catalogue
An improved information catalogue, with enhanced search facilities, has been launched
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Legal briefing: foundations' investment and borrowing
Payment by results, patient choice, the cost of private finance initiatives and the expanding role of the private sector - foundation trusts are not short of challenges.
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A matter of life and death: reducing avoidable mortality
Senior staff from 16 hospitals got together to brainstorm on reducing avoidable deaths. Hugh Rogers and Kate Jones report
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What the statistics reveal about tackling obesity
As slimming advice overwhelms the media in the new year, the Information Centre for health and social care has added to the throng with a compendium of information on obesity, physical activity and diet.
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E-bulletin on HRG4 launched
NHS trusts can sign up to a new electronic mailing service that will help them prepare for the introduction of the new set of healthcare resources groups
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Patient and public involvement toolkit
Lambeth primary care trust has produced a thoroughly researched and clearly presented document on patient and public involvement.
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Information stations
Tom Morgan and Nick Coyle on how valuable data from QOF results can help compare GP performance and improve patient care
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What social enterprise can do for healthcare
A social enterprise is often defined as a business that trades with a social or environmental purpose. It is not driven by profit, and reinvests surpluses back into the organisation or community.
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Early-bird solutions
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals foundation trust is saving time, money and lives with its early cancer reception service
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Innovation: pulling the dragon's teeth
A Dragons' Denstyle business incubator helping those suffering from mental ill-health is being starved of funds as it falls between departmental responsibilities. Naomi Chambers and Leigh Wharton describe its benefits
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Launch of the Primary Care Genetics Society
The Primary Care Genetics Society has been established to support primary care professionals as they find themselves dealing with an ever-demanding public continually being fed information from sources such as the internet and the lay media.
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Legal briefing: the separation of provider and commissioner
There is increasing pressure on primary care trusts to ensure clarity and robust processes around the distinction between provision and commissioning of services, warns David Owen
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First Annual NHS Networks Conference
The First Annual NHS Networks Conference, held in November, offered delegates the opportunity to find out more about networking.
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A wonderful web we weave
Spiders are helping wards and departments us discover what is working and where improvements are needed, reports Suzanne Hinchliffe
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Cross the divide and rule
Chief executives have switched between primary care and acute trusts. Jenifer Taylor examines how the roles and the demands differ, looks at the reasons behind the moves and discusses with three top managers their plans
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Solid data bears comparison
Hospital discharge planning decisions need hard facts to back them up, as Mathew Mackenzie and Marion Scholes explain