All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 205
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'We are not looking for blame but improvement': ambulance trust turnaround
A year ago, Mersey Regional Ambulance Service trust was faring very badly - until an interim chief executive changed the culture of decision making. By Alexis Nolan
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Live and direct - how five got ahead
HSJ's GM Live events provided an unprecedented opportunity for trusts not only to share best practice, but to see the benefits for themselves. Alexis Nolan reports
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Data briefing: what affects same-day discharge rates?
Over recent years there has been a growing trend in the number of non-elective patients discharged on the same day as they were admitted.
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Sheffield makes advance in endoscopic practice
In many cases patients with suspected early stage bowel cancer face the prospect of major surgery, intensive care and considerable changes to their lifestyle.
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Health outcomes measurement in Southwark adult mental health services
The CSIP project is linking with local services to share best practice and learning.
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Data briefing: cutting emergency admissions
Recent data briefings have presented trends in emergency admission rates per strategic health authority and the national picture remains very variable. This data briefing presents a case study from one trust and its experience of the practical issues in reducing such rates.
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Admissions: cutting excess bed days
Avoiding hospital admissions and reducing stays are ongoing priorities for primary care and acute trusts.
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Legal briefing: treatment abroad
The large numbers of patients heading overseas to avoid NHS waiting lists, or to access cheap private treatment, are well documented.
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HSJ supplement: leading on change
Despite many local examples of well-managed change, it would be hard to say that, overall, change management - the subject of this supplement sponsored by Managers in Partnership - has gone smoothly during the last year in England’s health service.
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David Lee on drugs and safer services
There are no magic wands when it comes to combating illicit drugs on our wards but the drug dogs pilot has certainly given us plenty to think about in our ongoing struggle for safer services.
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Cold comfort for the waitbusters
From planner to manager, Matthew Kershaw finds himself with the challenge of delivering the care pathway he helped to develop
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National audit for mastectomy and breast reconstruction
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care's national clinical audit support programme has begun a new audit for the Healthcare Commission to look at the quality of mastectomy and breast reconstruction care.
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Quality beyond NHS borders
What does quality in healthcare now mean, how is it measured around the world and how well do the NHS's systems measure up globally? Simon Leary and Rachel Abbott report
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Gail Richards on local area agreements
'If the first phase of LAAs has concentrated on designing and ensuring focused target delivery, albeit in partnership, now we need to ask whether this is sufficient.'
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Social enterprise conference speeches
NHS Networks, in collaboration with the Department of Health social enterprise unit, the Social Enterprise Coalition and the Cabinet Office, organised a one-day conference on social enterprise in London on 10 October 2006.
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The future of the NHS complaints procedure
Reforms to the complaints process are intended to produce a fundamental shift away from attributing blame. Tony Yeaman explains
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Frank Burns on collective failure
The national IT programme has failed to achieve and responsibility over the longer run ultimately must lie with the senior management community at every level
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Lyn Whitfield on big government
'Neither doctors nor the public seem convinced of the need for the national database element'
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Alan Maynard on outcomes
'Most of our customers survive the NHS even though we do not measure whether they feel better as a consequence'