Service design – Page 122
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Comment
Jon Restell on keeping managers in the NHS
Sixty per cent of the people who will make up the NHS workforce in 10 years are already employed in the service. This is the latest fancy dan statistic to drop into any workforce discussion.
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HSJ Knowledge
Delivering 18 weeks: the steps to success
Meeting the December 18-week referral to treatment target will be a challenge for many hospitals, especially those that missed the March milestone. Heather Lawrence, Kieran Brett and Michael Macdonnell explain how Chelsea and Westminster foundation trust hit the target nine months early
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Leader
Young promises new regime will deliver speed and independence
The language used by the chair of the Care Quality Commission in her interview with HSJ was typically clear, robust and ambitious.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving quality: a perfect 10 from patients
The next stage of NHS reform will be about improving quality - and an ambitious outcomes measurement regime will be crucial, say Jon Sussex and Adrian Towse
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News
Guilty by emission as carbon cuts loom large
The NHS emits a million tonnes of carbon a year, but it must cut this figure drastically. Helen Crump asks whether trusts are giving this issue the priority it requires and highlights some innovative ideas.
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News
Cornwall cancer treatment centralisation plans
Your comment on our proposals to relocate upper gastrointestinal cancer surgical services to improve clinical outcomes was very perceptive in setting out the challenges we face.
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News
Disgusted by Cornwall cancer conflict
I read with disgust your comments on the planned removal of cancer services from Cornwall to Plymouth.
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Comment
Linda Havard on unlocking clinical leadership
Lord Darzi's next stage review focuses on the importance of healthcare delivery, but at the expense of the details. Are local authorities up to the challenge of meeting the review's grand vision?
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HSJ KnowledgeAdmissions up for treatable illnesses
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions are long-term health conditions that can often be managed with timely and effective treatment without hospitalisation.
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News
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on following Darzi
I have been hearing talk along the lines of 'Darzi will never take off'. Some of this is wishful thinking (fearful acute trust) or something like first night nerves (empowered but apprehensive PCT).
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News
Reconfiguration panel is left kicking its heels
The independent reconfiguration panel has been left with no referrals to examine after delivering three reports to the health secretary.
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HSJ Knowledge
Devolved power flows through Darzi's vision
The next stage review's warm reception was testament to the staff and patient engagement that informed it. Now, says NHS chief executive David Nicholson, that local ownership will energise its implementation
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News
Holistic approach to sexual health
One element of GP involvement in sexual health services which I think has been missed from the report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health is their potential role in practice based commissioning.
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News
Nuffield hopes to avoid merger with health science plan
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre trust is seeking to stave off the threat of a merger by forming an academic health science centre with Oxford University.
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Comment
Helen Bevan on paths to improvement
The title of Lord Darzi's report - High Quality Care for All - proclaims the significant and welcome focus on quality improvement in the next phase of NHS reform.
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HSJ Knowledge
Under the radar: BME mental health
Language barriers and stereotyping mean the mental health needs of black and minority ethnic older people are going unseen by commissioners. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Comment
Peter Reader on integrating healthcare
Lord Darzi's next stage review contains the seeds of potentially the greatest revolution the NHS has seen since it was formed - a commitment to seek expressions of interest to run 'integrated care pilots'.
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News
Solihull care trust appoints interim chair
Jenni Ord has been appointed as interim chairman of Solihull care trust.
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Leader
Venomous rhetoric blocks better services
The row in Cornwall over plans to move a cancer service out of the county encapsulates the struggles primary care trust managers face when trying to improve services.
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News
Joint appointment smooths way for Kingston merger
Kingston primary care trust and council are consulting on plans to integrate. The PCT and local authority have appointed the first joint director of finance as part of a move to promote greater partnership working.