All Service redesign articles – Page 176
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Doctors question NHS Direct
Doctors have called on the government to re-evaluate NHS Direct as it is increasing their workload.
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Trusts urged to tackle patient dignity issues
The Healthcare Commission has called on the NHS to look again at how it respects patient dignity, in relation to hospital food, help with eating and mixed-sex wards.
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A different kind of revolution
Northern Ireland's streamlining of its public sector promised to be a less brutal process than England's. But some big holes in performance measurement brought challenges of its own, writes Daloni Carlisle
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Think tank slams 'dysfunctional' DGH reforms
The government has been criticised for its dysfunctional handling of hospital reconfiguration in a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research this week.
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ISTCs: wave three under way despite doubts
The Department of Health is pushing ahead with wave two of its independent sector treatment centre programme despite scant evidence of value, HSJ understands.
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Design for living
The targets may have been narrowly missed, but meticulous planning of care pathways and a focus on sustainability are driving radical improvements to cancer treatment. And Daloni Carlisle says there's more to come
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Lansley demands health inequalities drive
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has called for fresh policies to reduce health inequalities across London.
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In defence of e-patient records
It hasn't been often over the last few years that I have found myself agreeing with ITRichard Granger (News, 3 May) but here here!
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Managers must dig deep for new skill set
Overcoming complex NHS management challenges - insularity, short-termism and a sometimes crippling hierarchy - will require major changes to the way managers operate, argues Nigel Edwards
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Johnson stalls on Manchester decisions
Health secretary Alan Johnson has postponed a crunch decision on two contested service changes in Greater Manchester.
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'Micro-management' fears spark debate on regulation
Fears are growing that trusts could be shackled by increasing control from the centre as government and regulators attempt to get a tighter grip on performance.
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Simon Stevens on the great pbc debate
PBC is desirable but sadly not workable as a universal mechanism. It wasn't in the 1990s, and it isn't now
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Nuffield pulls out of theatres deal
The second wave of the Department of Health's independent sector treatment centre programme has been dealt a further blow, with Nuffield Hospitals pulling out of negotiations to provide mobile operating theatres across the West Midlands.
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The SHA interviews, David Nicholson: 'I can be direct. I drive things hard'
Laura Donnelly interviews the then new chief executive of London SHA
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Patient data records proof 'patchy'
Evidence to suggest the NHS care records service will save thousands of lives is 'patchy', the government has admitted.
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Danger signals on safety
There is little doubt that theHealthcare Commission's healthcheckrating is far more searching than its predecessor, the star-ratings
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Deficit forces cuts rethink
North and East Hertfordshire trust is planning extensive changes to services to reach break-even.
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MP wants medics in uniforms to cut infection
Doctors should change into uniforms on entering hospital to help stop the spread of infections, according to an MP whose local hospital became the first to be served with a hygiene improvement notice.
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Efficiency: realising potential to cut waste
Three factors are key to rapid improvement in NHS productivity and efficiency: a focus on what is known to work; follow the lead set by the best; drive improvement through measurement.