All Service redesign articles – Page 146
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HSJ Knowledge
Day-case rates
Recent research by Dr Foster and the NHS Institute analyses productivity opportunities across a range of key areas such as reductions in emergency admissions, statin prescribing and increases in day-case rates. For the last of these there the most recent quarter shows an opportunity of£12m, down from£16m in Q1 2006. ...
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News
SNP calls for fast-track reforms
Scotland's new SNP health secretary has called on NHS boards to accelerate the pace of change to give patients the services they deserve.
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HSJ Knowledge
Maggie Rae on building trust
Competence-based work and well-defined skills are key to an effective workforce. My civil service colleagues benefit greatly from the Professional Skills for Government training they get. Of course, experience and creative thinking are also part of a well-rounded person.However, you can have all the skills, intelligence and qualifications you like, ...
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News
PCTs to consult on Darzi's London blueprint
NHS London has asked the capital's primary care trusts to form a joint committee to carry out consultation on junior health minister Lord Darzi's report, A Framework for Action.The joint committee would be responsible for approving the consultation document, considering the impact the proposals would have on health inequalities and ...
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PCTs assured over ICATS liability
Primary care trusts in the North West will not have to pay out if the number of patients using privately operated clinical assessment services is lower than anticipated.NHS North West has moved to allay concerns that PCTs across the patch would be forced to pay for the integrated clinical assessment ...
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Comment
Anna Donald on drugs in the headlines
Hardly a day passes without press reports on products of one kind or another, be they heart drugs, vitamin tablets or laser surgery.Of late: the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos may cause heart failure. Our national heart disease director Professor Roger Boyle thinks all men older than 50 should take ...
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News
Inquiry calls for action on age discrimination
Age barriers to mental health services must be removed to end widespread discrimination against older people, a national inquiry has found.The UK inquiry into mental health and well-being in later life found that 3.5 million older people who experience mental health problems do not have access to adequate services and ...
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Johnson and Darzi start public engagement events
Health secretary Alan Johnson and junior health minister Lord Darzi have begun meeting the public in what the Department of Health has called 'one of the largest engagementeventsin the history of the NHS'.
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News
Open up primary care, says CBI
New commercial providers such as supermarkets and pharmacies should be brought in to challenge existing poor provision in primary care, according to the Confederation of British Industry.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Thornton on engaging clinicians
'One of the most powerful motivating factors for clinicians to be involved in improving services is seeing its direct impact on the quality of patient care'
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HSJ Knowledge
Transforming care at the bedside
Health Foundation quality improvement fellow, Annette Bartley has been asked by the Welsh Assembly to pilot a programme to transform bedside care based on her fellowship research in the United States.
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HSJ Knowledge
David Amos on the case for change
'The experience of the Blitz was used as evidence that, on the whole, people wanted to stay put - sixty years later, and the NHS is at it again.'
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HSJ Knowledge
Lesley Wright on walking the walk
'Many healthcare teams are undertaking the lean approach and systematically removing waste to improve the flow for patients.'
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News
Specialist services essential in diabetes care
A new publication from the diabetes specialist services liaison group highlights the challenges that diabetes poses for the NHS and how specialist services can help overcome them.
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News
NHS London outlines plans for the capital
NHS London has outlined the steps it will take to implement change in the capital's healthcare services.
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HSJ Knowledge
A look at long-term care
The national framework for NHS continuing healthcare comes into force on 1 October. Eve Francis gives a legal perspective on the implications of the framework for PCTs and NHS trusts and the pros and cons of the new regime
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News
Wanless warns of spending 'hell'
The NHS faces a 'hell of a job' after failing to deliver major advances in productivity and public health, Sir Derek Wanless has told HSJ.
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Comment
Michael White on former health secretary Stephen Dorrell
When I rang him he said the NHS has 'gone full circle' since Labour came in and abolished the internal market in 1997
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News
Trust escapes repayment of debts
A trust which was threatening to make hundreds of staff redundant has been told it need not pay back £20.7m historic debt - provided it manages its finances better.
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News
Potential return to huge debt in three years' time
The man who laid the ground for the massive spending boost to the NHS has warned that the service could be up to £15.2bn short again in three years.