All Service redesign articles – Page 124

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    Helen Bevan on the NHS as a global leader

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    I have just returned from Saskatchewan, Canada. I was invited to the province as a 'critical friend' of its healthcare transformation strategy.

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    NHS60: A dramatic revolution

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    Daloni Carlisle charts 60 years of the developing role of the NHS manager

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    NHS60: What's the verdict?

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    We invite three health pundits to pull no punches and deliver their judgments on the past and future of the NHS

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    NHS60: Patients first

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    The views of the most important person in the health service were scarcely considered in the early days. Don Redding looks at how patient power has evolved

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    NHS60: The team dream

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    The germ of multidisciplinary teamworking existed even in 1948 and has blossomed in recent years, reports Stuart Shepherd

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    NHS60: Retrospective

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    Former chief executives and health authority leaders compare their challenges and ambitions with the picture they see emerging for managers today. By Alison Moore

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    NHS60: The expert patient

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    Just as the internet has evolved into a web of ordinary people sharing information, we are entering a new age of user participation in health services, says Humana's Tom Granatir

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    NHS60: Frontline pharmacy

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    The community pharmacist’s invaluable role in dispensing prescriptions and advice is sure to expand into delivering some primary healthcare services, says Lloydspharmacy

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    NHS60: Oil in the wheels

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    The Tribal consultancy says policy change sets off an emotional cycle in those affected - but resistance can be smoothed out

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    NHS60: If the care fits

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    Experts predict a future in which primary care will be delivered by a variety of suppliers in integrated packages tailored to individual needs, reports Ingrid Torjesen

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    NHS60: The reinvention of hospitals

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    A ramshackle collection of impoverished hospitals dotted the NHS landscape in 1948. Anthony Harrison charts the transformation that has created the modern secondary care scene

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    NHS60: Déjà vu

    2008-06-30T09:00:00Z

    Healthcare has moved on apace since 1948, with treatments that would have amazed medics of the time. Yet in other areas time seems to have stood still, says Niall Dickson

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    Prison mental health services - jailhouse blues

    2008-06-27T09:00:00Z

    Faced with huge numbers of mentally ill offenders, London's forensic mental health services are struggling to cope. Rebecca Norris reports

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    New tool to assess patient involvement

    2008-06-26T14:02:00Z

    The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.

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    Royal College sets out alternative to polyclinics

    2008-06-26T13:55:00Z

    The Royal College of GPs has published its alternative model to polyclinics - primary care federations, in which groups of GP practices would work in partnership primarily in existing buildings to deliver better patient care.

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    Michael White on public health

    2008-06-26T09:00:00Z

    The other weekend I found myself discussing the public sector with an old leftie who had worked most of his life in housing and hated what he feels the Blair-Brown governments have done. In a word, marketisation.

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    Darzi set to put commissioning at centre stage

    2008-06-26T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi's next stage review is expected to put primary care commissioning centre stage and set national standards for the quality of treatment.

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    Radical ideas can keep service out of casualty

    2008-06-26T09:00:00Z

    On the eve of Lord Darzi's next stage review, the new director of the Ambulance Service Network says ambulance services' impact can extend far wider than just emergency care and help reduce inequalities

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    Media Watch: the service's 60th anniversary

    2008-06-26T09:00:00Z

    Coverage of the health service's pending diamond jubilee spans the good and bad.

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    Pilot trusts hire PR firm to keep project in public eye

    2008-06-25T09:00:00Z

    The six pilot community foundation trusts have hired a public relations firm to promote their primary care trust provider model.