All Service redesign articles – Page 148
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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.
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HSJ Knowledge
Reducing maternal death rates in Malawi
Maternal and neonatal death is one of the biggest healthcare issues facing developing countries. Malawi has one of the highest death rates in the world, with over 5 per cent of births ending in a fatality. To help tackle this, the Health Foundation is running a three-year programme dedicated to ...
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News
'Outdated' IT systems raise MPs' concerns
Hospitals have been forced to rely on increasingly outdated IT systems because of delays in implementing a major part of the national programme for IT, the Commons health select committee has warned.
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News
Public expecting too much as spending cuts approach
Local managers need more accountability and stronger support from politicians when making tough decisions, a think tank has claimed.
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News
Joint project to reduce falls in patients
According to a new study, closer working between pharmacy and physiotherapy services may improve care for older people at risk of falls.Research carried out at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust found that many older patients who have fallen would benefit from having their medicines reviewed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Raj Persaud on trade-offs in healthcare
The concept of 'trade-offs' is well understood in health – benefits of drugs traded against side-effects, for example, but many find it harder to juggle the trade-offs of change, says Raj Persaud.At the heart of the clinical practice of medicine is the idea of a ‘trade-off’ – we prescribe a ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Pioneer teams are overcoming anger
A programme for aggression management in secure psychiatric settings trials the latest international research, reports Louise Hunt
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HSJ Knowledge
MTAS: after the storm
The dust is still settling on the MTAS debacle, but the future of medical training is far from gloomy. Daloni Carlisle reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health special feature: inequality street
Despite a concerted effort to clean up its act, race still plays a significant part in the quality of mental healthcare that patients receive, writes Mark Gould
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health special feature: discharging responsibility
Mental health providers are working to tackle the problems of over-occupancy, length of stay and over-representation of black and minority ethnic groups. But are they doing enough, asks Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health special feature: the big issues
From vulnerable women on mixed-sex wards to continued over-representation of BME groups, Mental Health Act Commission chief executive Chris Heginbotham has a lot on his plate. Emma Dent reports
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News
Secure hospital numbers reach record high
The number of people detained in secure medium and high psychiatric wards in England reached a record high of 3,723 in July, according to a study by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. The study found that most secure patients stay for less than five years and have been admitted ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Prison mental healthcare: developing cultural competence
Link workers are enhancing mental healthcare for black and ethic minority prisoners.One such person, community development worker Irfan Mohammed, acts as a link worker for prisoners in Dorset.