All Service redesign articles – Page 142
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New hope for people with long-term conditions
A new £4.95m Health Foundation initiative working with patients and staff across theUKhas offered new hope to people with long-term conditions. The Co-creating Health project will empower local people with long-term conditions to take control of their lives by encouraging better partnership working between patients, doctors and nurses.
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Patient choice: a systematic approach
Another 'once in a lifetime' review of the NHS is upon us and despite the inevitable cynicism, there appears to be good reason to believe that Lord Darzi's review will bring a step change in the quality of care, writes Natalie Grazin
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LMCs don't want polyclinics
GPs are set to challenge Lord Darzi’s blueprint for the NHS inLondon.BMA local medical committees inLondonhave called in doctors from the Royal College of GPs and the London Deanery in a bid to commission research that challenges what they say are assumptions in the plan.GPs are particularly anxious about the ...
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Patient involvement: young clients can become the boss
Getting users to shape a support service for young people was a tricky balancing act but worth the effort, writes Lizzie Neill
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Foreign affairs: migration and the NHS
Uncertainty about the number of migrant workers in Britain means that planning for demand on local NHS services may become increasingly tricky, writes Alison Moore
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Mental health at work: down should not mean out of a job in the NHS
People with mental health problems often get chewed up and spat out of work. The NHS can lead the way in breaking a vicious circle that has a high price for both employee and employer, says Steve Shrubb
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Conservatives defend district general pledge
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has defended the Conservative party's pledge to 'save' district general hospitals.
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Comment
Darzi report message is clear: reform faster
Lord Darzi's interim report for his review of the NHS clears the way for private sector providers to break the logjam over GP access.
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Data Briefing: new era of mental healthcare insights
National mental health policy is moving on from the detailed specification of service inputs required by the national service framework to a greater focus on care outcomes.
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Report questions strategic health authorities' role in junior doctor 'crisis'
An independent inquiry into the junior doctors' recruitment 'crisis' has called for a national committee to scrutinise strategic health authorities' workforce planning.
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Whipps Cross should remain acute hospital, says emergency czar
The national emergency access director has recommended that Whipps Cross University Hospital trust should remain a full acute hospital.
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Patient Centred Care
WinnerLeedsPCT'What Works?' pharmacy needle exchangeA pharmacy based needle exchange service providing sterile injecting equipment or ‘works’ to drug users in Leeds had no guidelines, governance or contracts - and was becoming increasingly fragmented.Needle exchange was established in the 1970’s and continues to play an important role in reducing the spread ...
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Improving patient access
WinnerBoltonPCTMusculoskeletal Clinical assessment and Treatment Service (MSK CATS)The professionalism and ambitious breadth of work in a holistic and systemic approach were just some of the qualities in theBoltonentry that stood out for the judges. The panel also appreciated the strong focus on quality, an evidence-based methodology and robust outcome measures ...
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Service design: how does it feel to be our patient?
An unusual change project drafted in anthropologists to explore patients' experiences. Stuart Shepherd takes a look
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Mental health innovation
Winner Oxfordshire PCTThe jointly commissioned by the local authority and PCT service delivers a single screening and referral process for children's mental health services. Any agency including health can access the service though a referral form which includes the views of the child and their family about what service they ...
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Urgent improvement not needed, Confederation says
Surveys show that patients are generally very happy with the NHS services they receive and 'urgent improvement' is not needed, according to the NHS Confederation.
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Clinical service redesign
Winner Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Salford PCTA new model of care for neuroscience disorders was developed in order to meet the 18 week targets.The existing service model was overwhelmed, with 11 week waiting times for first outpatient appointment, 13 weeks for a routine MRI and a further ten weeks ...
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Primary Care Innovation
Winner Bradford and Airedale teaching PCTSelf injury ServiceDespite the fact that a recent study has shown that as many as 11 per cent of 16 year old girls self-injure, the lack of compassion that they and others like them frequently experience in A&E, along with an overall dissatisfaction with the ...
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Comment
Michael White on the shadow health secretary
Now that Gordon Brown has started to open up in public and chancellor Alistair Darling has put a couple of jokes into his conference speech, there is no stopping the confessional flood in politics. Even Andrew Lansley has been affected.
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.