All Service redesign articles – Page 101
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS marketing
In Hounslow a focused marketing campaign has helped ensure strong take-up rates of services at the area’s polyclinic.
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Comment
Michael White on the future of healthcare funding
For a politician in his situation, care services minister Phil Hope was in a remarkably cheerful mood when I caught up with him to find out how well - or badly - his department’s latest green paper had been received.
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Comment
Paul Corrigan on commissioning strategy plans
Nearly all primary care trust commissioning strategy plans describe a rationale for their intentions over the next five years. Tailored to the health and healthcare needs of their population, they describe future actions which intend to move activity out of secondary care, and cut emergency admissions and attendance at A&E.
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Comment
Stephen Eames on the need to make changes
Sunday morning and it looks as if it is going to be a hot day - a precursor to a long hot summer dominated by organising surge plans to combat pandemic flu, while digesting the impact of another central initiative on quality, innovation, improvement and productivity, otherwise known as “QIPP”.
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Comment
Joan Saddler on patient centred services
Actively seeking out and acting on patient feedback to shape services is still far from the norm but is fundamental to putting quality at the heart of the NHS.
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News
London agrees stroke and trauma overhaul
Plans to overhaul stroke and major trauma care in London have been approved by a committee of the city’s primary care trusts.
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HSJ Knowledge
Paratroopers mark D-Day in war on childhood obesity
Drafting in paratroopers to show overweight children that exercise is fun is just one novel initiative that has had results.
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HSJ Knowledge
Powerful chemistry: PCTs under fire for not aiding pharmacy growth
Pharmacists have the potential to deliver a far wider range of services than at present - but the opportunity will be missed if primary care trusts do not act, writes Graham Clews
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News
NHS Alliance voices fears on integrated care scheme
A proposed integrated care scheme between City Hospitals Sunderland trust and Church View Medical Practice is not in the best interests of patients, says the NHS Alliance.
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Comment
The social care green paper: What's in it for the NHS?
NHS managers could be forgiven for asking why they should be interested in the government’s long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care. The prospect of swine flu, shifting political priorities and impending fiscal gloom might seem enough to worry about.
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News
Pathology service shake-up starts to take shape
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has approved in part proposals to reorganise pathology in Lincolnshire.
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Comment
Andy McKeon: saving £15bn-£20bn will be no summer holiday
This summer senior NHS managers have been set a problem they will still be studying for months ahead - how to save £15bn-£20bn over three years from 2011.
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News
Minister seeks urgent talks on ambulance cuts
The rural development minister for Northern Ireland has expressed grave concerns about a proposed cut to regional ambulance services.
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Comment
Does my daughter have swine flu?
It’s been a tough month for my 12-year-old; she dislocated an elbow on an activity trip, was involved in a car accident, and then, last Friday, went down with suspected swine flu.
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News
Public views sought on plans for new North East hospital
Proposals for major changes to NHS services in Northumberland and North Tyneside have been put out for public consultation until July 28.
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HSJ Knowledge
Know the figures behind the facts on health inequalities
In an age of information overload, the need for relevant data is growing as boards face tough decisions on reducing health inequalities, as Stuart Shepherd explains
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Supplements
Transforming Community Services
See the attached file for our in-depth look at the programme that will lead delivery of the next stage review vision for primary and community care.
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Leader
Targets’ rebirth as NHS constitution rights will not ensure a cultural shift
Labour claims it is planning another healthcare revolution.
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News
Firms fight to the death for NHS construction projects
Construction consultancy and building firms are offering NHS organisations “suicidal rates” in a desperate bid to keep afloat during the recession, HSJ has been told.
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News
Monitor hails Darzi progress report
Attempts by health minister Lord Darzi to boost clinical leadership in the NHS have been welcomed by Monitor, the foundation trust watchdog.