All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 205
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Storing up trouble: the problem with materials
Seven months ago I joined the NHS from a role in operational management in manufacturing. One of the first things I noticed is that we seem to have missed the point on managing materials.
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Outcomes measures tools
A range of good quality outcomes measures tools exist to help us collect information in a structured and evidence-based way. These tools contain a set of questions - the same questions are answered at agreed points in a person's care over time in order to track changes. People coming into ...
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Power of two
A new bill will oblige councils and primary care trusts to work together. In a joint feature with Local Government Chronicle, Kaye McIntosh asks how it will work in practice
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Under pressure
The national IT programme is in all sorts of trouble, with problems ranging from slow uptake to embattled suppliers. Andy Cowper looks for the silver lining and signs of progress
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What's quality?
With the emphasis on financial turnaround and the 18-week target, the primary focus of most organisations is finance and delivery. Patient experience and service quality do not seem to get the same attention. But does better-quality healthcare cost more money, or less?
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The safer sex
Medium secure provision for women has been inadequate, but services tailored to their needs are now being provided. Emma Dent reports
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At your service
The government and PCTs are contemplating the benefits of community foundation trusts, but are they really the future for provider services, asks Kaye McIntosh
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Sounding off
With the incidence of mental illness among deaf people high and specialised services almost non-existent, getting help can be difficult. Emma Dent explores the gaps in care
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alan Maynard on outcomes
'Most of our customers survive the NHS even though we do not measure whether they feel better as a consequence'
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Lyn Whitfield on big government
'Neither doctors nor the public seem convinced of the need for the national database element'