All Service redesign articles – Page 137
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News
Review of free personal care to report in March
Lord Sutherland today confirmed that the independent funding review of free personal and nursing care in Scotland, which he is leading, is on track to report at the end of March.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health partnership sets out to boost physical health
Improving the quality of life for people with severe and enduring mental illnesses has been the focus of a partnership in Bolton, writes Alan Jones
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News
NHS bodies ill-equipped to cope with challenges, survey suggests
Health sector organisations are over-confident about their ability to cope with uncertain times, according to new data. The findings suggest that employers in the sector are taking too many risks with their business, despite identifying the key challenges they face.
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Community hospitals grab local care lifeline
Two years after Our Health, Our Care, Our Say promised to shift care away from the acute sector, community hospitals are redefining how they provide services. Alison Moore looks at the emerging models and asks what has held up progress
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News
Commission calls for power to suspend non-executives
Chairs and non-executive directors of hospital and primary care trusts that have lost the confidence of their local communities could face suspension in future.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on resource allocation
Buried on page 39 of the 2008-09 operating framework are two bland statements. The first says primary care trusts will receive an increase of 5.5 per cent or £3.8m in revenue allocations in 2008-09, with allocations announced for one year and no changes to PCT baselines.
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News
Auditors sceptical about cull of arm's-length bodies
Finance experts have questioned the value for money of a major Department of Health review aimed at cutting spending on arm's-length bodies.
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HSJ Knowledge
CSIP Positive Practice Awards
The 2007 CSIP Positive Practice Awards aim to celebrate excellence in health and social care.
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HSJ Knowledge
High-Impact Changes in Mental Health Award
Category: High-impact changes in mental healthWinner: People using specialist eating disorders service by improving flowContact: Ruth Carson, tel 0151 4717751E-mail: Ruth.Carson@merseycare.nhs.ukA year ago at theLiverpooland Sefton Eating Disorders Service, part of the Merseycare trust Eating Disorder Clinic, clients could expect to wait 33 weeks or more for an appointment.Clients and ...
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New Ways of Working Award
Category: New Ways of WorkingWinner: The Bromley and Greenwich New Ways of Working projectSince 2002, Oxleas foundation trust's mental health services in Bromley andGreenwichhave been operating aNew Waysof Working programme.Feedback from service users, carers and GPs revealed that a review of outpatient clinics and acute inpatient services was needed to ...
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Ann Keen pledges to support Productive Ward
Health minister Ann Keen has pledged her support to the Productive Ward programme, which is designed to help ward nurses release more timefor direct patient care.
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Supplements
Service transformation special report
The NHS Integrated Service Improvement Programme has brought about big changes, but the need for an integrated approach to service transformation has never been stronger.
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HSJ Knowledge
Strength in numbers - mental health partnerships
The providers of services for people with schizophrenia in Liverpool saw ISIP as a great chance to bring the NHS and local authority together, as Helen Mooney explains
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HSJ Knowledge
At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease
ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore
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HSJ Knowledge
Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need
To help simplify highly complex emergency care processes, one health and social care community has signed up to a whole-system change programme. By Daloni Carlisle
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HSJ Knowledge
View from the front line: redesigning care
Understanding the concerns and challenges facing staff on the ground is essential to good management. In this new series HSJ goes back to the floor to get the views and opinions of frontline workers
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News
Patients report poor access to GP services
One in five patients is still finding it difficult to get a convenient appointment to see their GP, a survey by consumer campaigners Which? has found.
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News
Darzi seeks patients' views on NHS
Junior health minister Lord Darzi is today meeting NHS staff, patients and members of the public.More than 1,000 people will be asked to give their views on the NHS in general and particularly on their feelings about GP access and opening hours.
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Lib Dems set out plans for future NHS
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has outlined plans for a £2bn 'care guarantee' plan for elderly people, a new patient contract and directly elected health boards as part of his proposed NHS reforms.
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Comment
Hospital beds - dispelling myths
Throughout the NHS's history, politicians have been under pressure to protest against proposed hospital closures. But having more beds is not always better. In fact, too many hospital beds can lead to imbalances in overall health service provision and damage the quality of services, argues Richard Banyard