All Productivity articles – Page 28
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HSJ PartnersThe quality & productivity innovation challenge – getting over ourselves
In the first of a year-long series on healthcare innovation, NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, Jim Easton, explains why innovation is so important to the future of the NHS.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS productivity: how to maximise the year ahead
Health and social care services need to fully engage frontline staff, not just leaders, to meet financial constraints while safeguarding quality delivery. Phil Kenmore explains
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NewsJohn Lewis checked out in NHS productivity drive
Politicians of all hues are talking about public services being owned by staff - like John Lewis - to increase productivity. Alison Moore examines how this might work and, where staff cannot hold shares, whether just a sense of ownership is enough
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HSJ KnowledgeIncreasing NHS organisational productivity and efficiency
Is your organisation struggling to reduce costs while maintaining or even improving the quality of services? The current economic climate means the focus is now on spending smarter, investing for the future and delivering results.
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NewsSurgery productivity tool could save trusts £1.6m a year
Trusts could save over £1.5m a year by implementing a programme that encourages operating theatre staff to work more productively.
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NewsKing's Fund: higher NHS productivity could need investment up front
Reducing variations in NHS productivity would in some cases require more investment in services rather than less, the King’s Fund has suggested.
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CommentMike Farrar on QIPP - quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
QIPP needs to become woven into the NHS’s DNA, and efficiencies come from the avoidable use of NHS resources, effective partnerships and best practice
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Blogs
Change agents for quality and productivity
If we look globally at those healthcare systems that deliver outstanding performance in cost and quality, a common characteristic is a systematic approach to capability building for improvement. How do we build this in the NHS?
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HSJ KnowledgeBook review: Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress Free-Productivity
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your workload? Find it hard to focus on the work at hand? Wish you were more relaxed and could achieve more with less effort? There is no reason to lose hope.
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NewsIt's official: NHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity rose by 1.2 per cent in 2007 and 0.7 per cent in 2006, official statistics show, reversing a seven year stretch of declining productivity.
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NewsNHS productivity unit role revealed
The NHS productivity unit will prepare the health service for the economic downturn with an initial budget of just £350,000.
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HSJ KnowledgePast, present and future productivity in the NHS
Higher performance bought with heavy investment in the NHS is in jeopardy from arbitrary cost cutting in the name of efficiency. Andrew Street reports
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NewsNHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity has improved, with the growth in the quality and volume of treatment now exceeding the increase in NHS funding.
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Blogs
NHS news blog: NHS productivity on the rise
NHS productivity has improved, with the growth in the quality and volume of treatment now exceeding the increase in NHS funding.Figures due to be published by the Office for National Statistics later this month will show that between 2003-04 to 2007-08 productivity growth was at worst static and at best ...
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Budget 2009: Improve NHS productivity or cut services - King's Fund
The NHS will face “significant cuts in its services” from 2011 unless it can become more productive, the King’s Fund said in response to today’s Budget.
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News
SHA chief Margaret Edwards to lead productivity unit
Margaret Edwards, the chief executive of Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority, has left to head up a new national NHS productivity unit.She has agreed to lead the unit, set up by NHS chief executive David Nicholson and based in NHS London, and will start as national director of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Better NHS training, improved NHS productivity
Effective training can have far-reaching benefits, as an initiative at one trust has demonstrated
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HSJ Knowledge
Increasing productivity in nursing
In a programme that pre-empted the Productive Ward initiative by a year, Ipswich Hospital trust improved its nursing services by changing the ward sister role
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS productivity shown up in a clearer light
A key feature of the NHS Better Care, Better Value indicators published by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is the ‘productivity opportunity’ figure for each PCT and acute provider.
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News
Managers to compare consultants' productivity
The Department of Health is sending data to hospital trusts that will allow them to measure consultants' activity against national rates.