All Service redesign articles – Page 138
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HSJ Knowledge
Andrew Castle on streamlining processes in the NHS
Why not find out why a process risks wasting money rather than add another process to try to check it, says Andrew Castle
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News
NHS Shared Business Services not obligatory
NHS organisations will be given incentives but not forced to use NHS Shared Business Services for back-office administration, according to Department of Health finance deputy director Peter Coates.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ review of the year: jobless doctors, lethal bugs and a £1.8bn pile of unspent cash
A year with more than its fair share of drama saw medics on the streets, C difficile in the wards, Blair and Hewitt on the way out - and an embarrassing surplus in the bank. By Richard Vize
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HSJ Knowledge
Reducing length of stay
It has long been recognised that some hospitals have longer lengths of stay than others. The true extent of the variations becomes starkly apparent when trust-by-trust data is closely analysed. According to information supplied by NHS trusts to data warehouse HES for 2005/6 (the most recent available), patients’ hospital ...
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News
Emergency reconfiguration plans approved
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has endorsed two separate plans to concentrate emergency services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Creating the perfect acute hospital
Judges for the HSJ Award for acute healthcare organisation of the year said if you pulled together all the best practice around the country, you would have the perfect trust. So what would it look like, asks Daloni Carlisle
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HSJ Knowledge
Cost-saving pilots
Two projects in the East Midlands are not only achieving better outcomes for people with enduring mental illnesses but making significant cost savings.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on service co-design
When will we stop paying lip service to patient involvement? Can we truly say 'we are putting the patient at the centre of everything we do'?
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HSJ Knowledge
Survey of readers on the NHS's past, present and future
The fact that the NHS exists is its greatest strength, according to a survey of over 1500 NHS managers. When surveyed about the NHS's past, present and future, a third said its very existence is its greatest asset, closely followed by the fact that care is free at the point ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Managing patients' expectations of the NHS
Media storms over postcode lotteries reveal the extraordinarily high standards demanded by the public. Jessica Allen argues that reform of PCTs is the best way to steer expectations and drive up service quality
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HSJ Knowledge
Leading the way on diabetes
Developing leaders in healthcare is integral to improving the quality of care for patients with conditions such as diabetes. However, it is increasingly accepted that all team members need to be involved if lasting improvements are to be made.
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News
Scotland aims to improve dementia diagnosis
Targets for early diagnosis of dementia, guidance on supporting people with substance misuse and mental health problems, and a mental health collaborative to drive change around targets have been announced in Scotland.
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HSJ Knowledge
Secure care: improving life in locked wards
The latest specifications for housing patients in medium secure care clarify the rules and include welcome proposals to improve life in locked wards. Rebecca Norris reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Productive ward: making time to improve patient care
Frontline staff will be able to devise their own strategies for spending more time with patients under productive ward. Alexis Nolan reports
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News
GP abortion trials begin
Trials have begun to test whether early abortions could be carried out safely in GP surgeries in England.
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Comment
Simon Stevens on the science of incentives
During the coffee break at a seminar I once attended, I let slip that I thought two of my fellow panellists seemed 'quite switched on'. 'Yes,' a delegate replied, 'they've both got a Nobel Prize'. Umm, amazing powers of insight, Stevens.
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News
London trust praises devolution
University College London Hospitals foundation trust is claiming significant savings and improvements in service quality by devolving budgets to clinical leads and directors.
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News
Figures underpinning Darzi's London review 'dodgy'
Questions have been raised over the 1.4bn annual savings identified in junior health minister Lord Darzi’s blueprint for healthcare in London.
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HSJ Knowledge
Personalised healthcare: put the customer in control
Evidence demonstrates that customising services is effective - patient outcomes are improved and the provider gets better value for money. Angela Coulter and Don Redding argue for a personal health service
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News
Polyclinic plans will face local opposition warns Darzi adviser
Plans for new polyclinics will meet stiff local opposition, a primary care adviser to Lord Darzi's health service review has warned.