All Service redesign articles – Page 151
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Comment
Target-driven department is off the mark
'Reforming the DoH to make it an effective and respected department is an important step on the road to rebuilding NHS confidence in the government'
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News
DoH misses deadline as it fails to deliver own turnaround plan
The Department of Health has missed its own deadline to publish plans on how it will address a catalogue of corporate failures set out in a government review.
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News
Wave three treatment centres axed
The cancellation of the next wave of independent sector treatment centres has raised questions over the government's commitment to using private sector companies in the NHS.
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News
Deferrals and delays put applications target at risk
Prospective foundation trusts are facing delays to their authorisation of up to six months, Monitor has admitted.
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News
Agenda for Change aims 'unfulfilled'
The majority of managers have been found to support Agenda for Change even though it overspent by millions of pounds and has failed to increase productivity.
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DoH demands better access for patients
Primary care trusts will have to demonstrate 'tangible improvements' in patients' access to GP services by the end of the year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on telling tales
'It was my first real local experience of the power of the patient's story, and has led to dramatic improvements in our stillbirth rates today'
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HSJ Knowledge
New media - new medicine?
Innovative projects in patient care are making good use of new media, write Shak Gohir and Eve Knight
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HSJ Knowledge
Public health and service integration
The Role of Public Health in Integrated Services is a 48-page discussion paper that provides an overview of the scope of public health practice. It outlines some of the tools and techniques that might be used in designing and evaluating integrated services, and explains how they might be used as ...
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on the importance of partnerships
'With the little wisdom, insight and maturity that I hope I have developed with age and experience, I am able to confess that some inter-organisational relationships suffered as I pursued system-wide strategic change'
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Comment
Dr Maire Smith on nurturing innovation
'NHS staff have a wealth of ideas and a number of these could be translated into tangible benefits, not only for the patient, but also for the organisation'
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Comment
Carers must be treated with dignity
Lord Darzi has been asked by the health secretary.to review the main challenges facing the NHS, including ensuring that care for people with long-term conditions is joined-up, patient focused, offers best value and is delivered with dignity in the best location for each patient, which for many will be their ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Promoting partnerships through the Integrated Care Network
The Integrated Care Network plays a key role in promoting partnership working in the health service. Julia Thompson reports on its work
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HSJ Knowledge
Assessing how well your team works
A simple assessment can help managers evaluate how well their team is performing.
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HSJ Knowledge
Adult care joint ventures
The Integrated Care Network's report Adult Care Joint Ventures: aspirations, challenges and options sets out to explore radically alternative models of adult care services commissioning and provision.
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HSJ Knowledge
Safe crackers
Putting patient safety at the heart of NHS services needs a significant cultural shift. HSJ and Microsoft brought together key leaders to ask how to make this happen
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News
Reforms hitting children's surgery, says royal college
Competition between hospitals is damaging the collaboration needed to provide better children's surgery, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned.
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News
New PSAs will boost local freedoms
Trusts are to be given greater freedom from central government to set their own local priorities and spend government funding as they see fit.
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Contract dispute could drive wedge between GPs and PCTs
Moves to change the terms of GP contracts in Suffolk could spark 'ructions' between primary care trusts and GPs across the country.
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News
Ministers must win battle on provision to fulfil early promise
'While other parts of the public sector have learned to work with a mixed economy, the NHS still flinches at the idea of private involvement'