All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 67
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy effective teamwork is a cliché crucial to collaboration
Peter Homa discusses the vital place of effective teamwork in healthcare delivery.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow diabetes data can unlock more funding for services
The best practice tariff for paediatric diabetes presents a major opportunity for childhood diabetes specialists to attract important funding for under-resourced services. But to capitalise, clinicians must demonstrate they are meeting national guidelines and delivering best practice, says John Sanderson.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow HealthWatch can help support local economies
Ross Griffiths explores how HealthWatch bodies have the opportunity to support local health economies and their scope for innovation in delivering care.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow patient perspectives can help improve service design
Patient opinions are a precious source of information. Natalie Cook and Keith Miller explain how to make listening to them a fundamental part of service design.
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HSJ KnowledgeAn innovative approach to redesigned oncology services
Developing a successful acute oncology service to admitted patients and those in A&E called for some innovative thinking, explain Rob Smith and colleagues.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CCGs can make the best use of tightening resources
CCGs will face enormous pressure to make spending decisions in a transparent and effective way. Gary Belfield looks at how they can make the most of their cash.
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HSJ KnowledgeEnhancing communication between GPs and hospital consultants
Dr Matthew Lewis explains how the approach at his trust is improving the quality of patient referrals, and communication between primary and seconday care clinicians.
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting CCGs working with health and wellbeing boards
Giles Peel looks at the ongoing development of health and wellbeing boards, and their burgeoning relationships with clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to make equality and diversity a central part of your organisation
Three leaders discuss how they are working to make equality and diversity part of their organisation’s DNA.
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HSJ KnowledgeResults: chief executives survey on what makes an FT excellent
A survey of chief executives reveals insight into what they believe can make a foundation trust excellent, report colleagues at Finnamore.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow international health links can help the NHS workforce develop
Brenda Longstaff explores how health links between the NHS and developing countries deliver benefits to the NHS workforce.
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HSJ KnowledgeOpen your ears to whistleblowing
National policy is in place to encourage whistleblowing, but employers need their own strategies to promote a truly transparent culture. Jennifer Taylor finds out how to remove the barriers to openness.
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HSJ KnowledgeThriving in the NHS - five tips for healthcare leaders
Redundancies, reduced budgets and endless uncertainty. Being a senior manager in the NHS certainly brings its challenges. But there is a way to turn almost every high-pressure situation into an opportunity to shine, as Judith Krichefski explanis.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe issues facing 'suitable alternative employment' changes
Sejal Raja considers the issues faced by employers when seeking to redeploy employees and justifying that the new role is suitable alternative employment to avoid a redundancy payment being made.
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HSJ KnowledgeAnalysing the results of the largest ever stroke care survey
The Stroke Association conducted the largest ever survey of stroke survivors undertaken in the UK to get a better understanding of the issues facing stroke survivors in their daily lives. Joe Korner looks at the responses.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe six steps to delivering better stroke care
Five years on from the National Stroke Strategy, London has turned around its performance. Alec Fraser, Sue Fenwick Elliot and David Cohen explain how the changes were made.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to utilise the technology that can transform urgent care
Technology that could revolutionise care has already been developed, so how do we roll it out to all of the NHS, ask Jim Parle and Terry Young.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy stroke care in England needs modernising further
The inconsistency in stroke care across England shows that although some issues have been addressed, there is still room for improvement, says Damian Jenkinson.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to implement evidence-based stroke care
Alec Fraser and colleagues discuss four challenges that were overcome in successfully implementing better stroke services.
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HSJ KnowledgeDial Q for quality: the programme helping healthcare leaders deliver change
To improve quality leaders must focus on relationships that facilitate change. Daloni Carlisle looks at a project to develop the right skills.