Service design – Page 167
-
Comment
Jasbir Sunner on academic health science centres
Our vision and strategy for an AHSC, strongly supported by clinicians, bodes well for the future of hospital services in north west London
-
HSJ Knowledge
Best practice: lessons from US on patient safety
Whether its superbugs, medical error or the rise in diabetes, the US health system faces strikingly similar problems to the NHS. Andrew Castle switches on to watch.new.US documentary series Remaking American Medicine, which shows how we can tackle them.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Take the strain from DVT care
With DVT-related admissions costing Luton PCT around £1m a year, action was needed. Alison Meynell and colleagues report
-
News
Ruth hussey on offender health services
The growing prison population is a significant issue for both primary care and acute trusts. Just as general healthcare is moving towards prevention, so is criminality. We need to look at what the NHS and social care can do to stop people committing ...
-
News
DoH responds to mental health report
The Department of Health has published its response to a Joint Committee on Human Rights report on the Mental Health Bill. The report was published in February.The response took the form of a letter from health minister Rosie Winterton to the committee chair.Read the letter here
-
News
Why bed-blocking is making an unwelcome comeback
Fines for social services departments brought early success in reducing bed-blocking, but the numbers are creeping up again as more difficult problems - which may be a result of targets and choice - rise to the surface. Alison Moore investigates.
-
News
Nurses want more time on patient care, says survey
Three-quarters of staff nurses in acute trusts say they do not spend enough time on direct patient care, according to research by HSJ and Nursing Times. And nine in 10 of those believe this has an adverse impact on patients.
-
News
New national IT setback as devolution is delayed
The national programme for IT is facing another setback as it emerges that plans to enhance the role of strategic health authorities have been delayed.
-
Comment
Why the talking cure can help ease the reconfiguration blues
A list is circulating - despite Department of Health denials - of 18 trusts that have been deemed unviable in their present form and on which strategic health authorities will be acting. There will probably be few surprises in the names and no surprise that major restructuring of acute services ...
-
News
New wave of community hospitals and services
Health minister Andy Burnham has unveiled a £50m wave of new NHS community hospitals and super surgeries.Six new health centres, two new community hospitals and eight refurbished community hospitals will open across the country as part of a drive to increase capacity for minor operations, medical tests and follow-up care ...
-
News
WHO praises price cuts for HIV drugs
The World Health Organisation has welcomed the decision of Abbott Laboratories to significantly reduce the price of lopinavir/ritonavir, a second-line antiretroviral therapy to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS.WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to universal access to HIV prevention services and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS by 2010.Read more ...
-
News
Hewitt unveils patient choice plans
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced new measures to increase patient choice.The NHS Choices website will go live in July, and a pilot will see trained librarians helping the public to access choose and book.Ms Hewitt also said there will be 'free' choice of any hospital provider in the country ...
-
News
Hospices in line for refurbishment programme
Hospices are to receive £40m from the Department of Health to carry out improvement works. The money will go to 191 projects in 146 adult hospices in England.It will be spent on refurbishing and upgrading hospice areas including wards, dining facilities, gardens and IT. A further £10m will be made ...
-
News
Scottish Labour party vows to halve waiting times
The Scottish Labour party has pledged to halve waiting times to 18 weeks from referral to treatment by 2011. The promise comes in the party's new manifesto, launched today.There is also a specific commitment to cut waits to see physiotherapists, clinical psychologists and chiropodists to nine weeks by the same ...
-
News
Best practice: joining up community sport and health services
A lottery grant for school sport in Merseyside has sparked the creation of a landmark in community sport: a patch of wasteland has been transformed into a £5.2m sports and health hub, where cardiac rehabilitation happens alongside.track events and football matches. Jonathon Ives reports
-
Comment
Andrew Jones on aligning incentives
'After a few cycles in the policy washing machine, you would have thought we would all have come out looking the same colour and trying to iron out the same creases'
-
Comment
Pioneers race on but progress is measured by the backmarkers
'It is notable that not one of the 13 early achiever sites comes from NHS London or NHS East of England'
-
News
Dentists calls for contract overhaul
The British Dental Association has demanded an urgent response from the government to the overwhelming consensus that its NHS dentistry reforms are failing.In a letter to chief dental officer for England Barry Cockcroft, BDA general dental practice committee chair Lester Ellman cites the weight of evidence against the new contract ...
-
News
Audit sets out cancer care improvements
The treatment and care of cancer patients could be improved if more were done to improve record keeping, according to a report from the Information Centre for health and social care.The report found that care for one quarter of patients with throat and mouth cancer is not recorded at multi-disciplinary ...
-
News
Conservatives call for IVF clarification
The Conservatives have called on the government to explain when IVF guidance will be implemented.Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said: 'Many NHS patients are receiving only one cycle of IVF and this will be difficult for them. Labour need to explain when they will provide three cycles of IVF, as ...