All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 94
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HSJ KnowledgePete Mason on dealing with complaints
The number of serious complaints against primary and secondary care trusts was released last month as part of a review by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Beyond Crisis
The world faces critical times and must keep self renewing, says Anoop Maini
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to reduce COPD admissions with personal care plans
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the second most common cause of emergency admissions to hospital; one in eight acute emergency admissions is the result of an acute exacerbation of the condition.
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Fundamentals of the NHS
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Fundamentals of the NHS conference.
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Fundamentals of the NHS - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Fundamentals of the NHS conference.
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Joint ventures in the health sector
The detail of the white paper Equality and Excellence: Liberating the NHS and its impact and meaning has yet to emerge.
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Future opportunities for PCTs
The formation of the GP consortia bodies is being seen as an opportunity to be grasped by the best of the PCT teams.
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Forecasting methods in healthcare planning
Current healthcare planning assumes that a combination of primary and community care initiatives and public health improvements will reduce the need for hospital beds, despite an increasingly elderly population.
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Multi-source feedback
The communication of effective and constructive feedback has long been a thorny issue in many an organisation, and not least the NHS.
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Electronic prescribing
Picture the scene. A doctor is attending a Fitness to Practise hearing at the General Medical Council. She stands accused of making a prescribing error which has lost a patient his life. The doctor is now fighting for her career.
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Data protection
Recent moves by the Department of Health to tighten up on data management mean that healthcare service providers must meet the international quality standard, ISO27001.
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Cost savings and operational efficiency
The NHS currently faces a big challenge on the way in which it delivers healthcare to patients as a result of budget pressure.
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Clinical leadership
There are countless definitions of leadership, but the majority concur that leadership is about working with people and organisations to achieve goals and to produce change. While overlapping with management, there is an enhanced focus on change, vision, inspiration and empowerment.
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HSJ KnowledgeGPs get a check-up of their own as a new era dawns
Confidential assessments offered by one primary care trust helped practices to identify strengths and weaknesses in the run-up to the new commissioning arrangements. Tim Riley and colleagues explain how it was done
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Managing Oneself
The first thing to strike me about this book was its (lack of) size. Managing Oneself is a reprint of an article from the Harvard Business Review, and at 55 small pages it is a distinctly slim volume.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe big four enablers that bring about big change
Large-scale change in healthcare often fails, but the latest challenge in England of improving quality while reducing costs is possible with a four-pillar approach, write Penelope Dash and colleagues
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Pharmacy regulation
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), the new independent regulator for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy premises, launched on 27 September 2010. The establishment of the GPhC will lead to changes to the way in which the profession is regulated.
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Lean in mental health
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust forecast a saving of £16 million and a 100 per cent increase in clinical time spent with patients.
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Health and social care regulation
In the short time since the spring general election, the new coalition government has announced significant changes to the health and social care regulatory sector.
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Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) is one of the five AHSCs in England designated by Department of Health in March 2009. The designation recognises excellence in research, innovation, education and patient services which combine to provide a strong capacity for translational medicine.