All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 204
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Data Briefing: Variations in length of stay
Length of hospital stay remains one of the greatest variables between acute trusts. By reviewing and influencing discharges commissioners can aim to improve the patient experience and save bed days, increasing capacity and saving money.
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Data briefing: patients opting for care closer to home
Has there been a change in referral patterns since the start of patient choice?
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Data Briefing: Did the extra money go on new staff?
A new analysis of the reason for and distribution of NHS deficits published by the Department of Health, Explaining NHS Deficits, contains an interesting analysis of what the extra funding from 2000-04 was spent on. The answer, apparently, is that nearly 80 per cent was consumed by the costs of ...
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Building bridges
Effective communication and consultation are intimately bound up with the proposed reconfiguration of NHS services. Lynne Greenwood talks to trust staff who have already set their often controversial plans before the public, and asks what lessons they have learned.
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Technology: why the Conservatives are pushing for root and branch reform
The centralisation of Connecting for Health and a lack of local leadership are proving an important battleground for Conservative policy debate. Steve Mathieson looks at the detail
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In search of a blueprint: the PCTs who provide mental health services
Historical circumstances mean some PCTs are in the unusual position of also being mental health providers. Lynn Eaton looks at their options
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The big C
The latest figures show C difficile rates are climbing. Alison Moore reports on what a major challenge for 2007 will bring
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Ten points for a big difference in mental health
Mental health: A year and half after the groundbreaking 10 high-impact changes were published comes a new version specifically for mental health services, writes Jackie Ardley
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Helen Bevan on a life-saving campaign
'What can the NHS learn from this overachievement of a national goal?'
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Stephen Thornton on independent information for better healthcare
'Without good information on the quality of healthcare at a systems level - issues such as access, effectiveness and safety - there are no clear sign posts for policy makers, clinicians and managers about where and how to make improvements.'
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Best practice: stopping patients falling in hospital
When a patient falls in hospital it betrays the principle that a doctor - and by extension the healthcare system - should do no harm.
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Ken Jarrold on being a better manager
'Try and get your people to disassociate the message from the messenger'
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Behind locked doors
The shocking state of some facilities at Broadmoor Hospital means staff struggle to provide modern care. Emma Dent talks to the people planning its redevelopment
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The maths behind real case management
It seems a deceptively simple plan - if you can identify the relatively small number of patients likely to use acute services intensively, you can concentrate on simpler, cheaper and more effective preventative care. It was a promise first held out in work by Kaiser Pemanente in the US and ...
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NHS bureaucrats are holding back change
Ian Smith got to within touching distance of the NHS chief executive job last year. Here he makes the case for managers to revolutionise their focus and free themselves from Whitehall
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Staying power: beacon sites offer some answers
Why could US provider Kaiser provide better care at the same cost as the NHS? Why were there so many bed days in the UK? After four years of questions, writes Professor Chris Ham, beacon sites are providing answers
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Stronger links between annual health check and peer review
Links between peer review and the annual health check are to be strengthened, following discussions between the Health Commission and Information Centre.
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Andy Burnham to launch Information Centre business plan
Andy Burnham, minister of state for delivery and reform, will be the keynote speaker at the launch of the Information Centre for health and social care's business plan 2007/08 and information strategy.
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Andrew Castle on visiting the shop floor
'It is simply not possible to sit in a room and work out what led to something going wrong without going and seeing it for yourself'