All Innovation articles – Page 81
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve end of life care
The 2008 end of life care strategy allocated £286m to primary care trusts. Lynne Greenwood looks at some of the innovations and improvements being made with the cash
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HSJ KnowledgePatient safety: the human factors
‘Human factors’ can create gaps in systems that endanger patients. In the second part in our series Helen Mooney explains how self-knowledge is the first step to safer care
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SupplementsNHS Evidence round table: stick to the facts
Using evidence to improve productivity and efficiency is not as straightforward as it might appear, as a round table of experts brought together to discuss the issue found. By Daloni Carlisle
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CommentRichard Barker and Steve Smith: health and wealth are partners
The NHS and life sciences industry have already proven how well they can work together
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CommentNicky Spencer on NHS innovation
If innovation was only about generating big ideas, then things would not be so challenging. But the real expertise comes in seeing our radical ideas successfully implemented and the benefits realised.
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HSJ Knowledge
Technology in the NHS
Margaret Parton explains how NHS teams are often supportive of implementing technology while the wider system is not
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NewsNominate a product that is increasing efficiency and quality
HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has launched a series of awards to recognise and reward the products transforming patient care and helping healthcare professionals work efficiently.
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NewsPatient safety: minimum staff to patient ratios cut death rates
A major US study has added further weight to the argument that setting minimum nurse to patient ratios saves lives.
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HSJ Knowledge
Funding innovation
Dr Kathy McLean looks at how healthcare providers can make best use of the £220m innovation funding to improve working practices and deliver quality of patient care
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News'Trust' key to joint working between PCTs and pharma
Mutual trust and transparency is the key to successful joint working between primary care trusts and the pharmaceutical industry, according to a medical director who has worked for both sides.
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LeaderAlternative providers: a good idea is a good idea, whoever had it
After three years editing HSJ I am still struck by the NHS’s antediluvian attitudes to the private and voluntary sectors. It does not want this mirror held in front of it.
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NewsPCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12
Primary care trusts in the East of England are planning on giving GP commissioners hard budgets next year, regardless of which party wins the election.
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NewsNHS innovation: can the health service drive new ideas?
The NHS has grown used to a pattern of crisis followed by review followed by reform - yet many fundamentals remain little changed. Will the past keep shaping the NHS of the future or will the service explore different paths, asks Nigel Edwards
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NewsTreatment checklists cut deaths by 15pc
Treatment “checklists” have led to a 15 per cent reduction in patient deaths in three hospitals, research has shown.
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CommentChris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation
Labour’s tenure has seen massive progress in areas including access to services and cardiac and cancer care. But the greatest changes must now follow fast - things can only get different
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NewsDarzi warns against cutting clinical staff
Cutting clinical staff to save money in the recession would be “catastrophic” for the NHS, surgeon and former health minister Lord Darzi has warned.
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HSJ PartnersLearn from leaders in innovation
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HSJ PartnersInnovation - harnessing the power of communities
Charles Leadbeater is the co-founder of Participle, which innovates new approaches to public services.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Crossing the Chasm
You can surmount resistance to change, say Jonathan Bloor and Edward Miles
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NewsNHS market reforms are not linked with better care
The introduction of competition to the NHS cannot be shown to have improved the health service, and may have produced extra costs.