All Service redesign articles – Page 182
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HSJ Knowledge
How to commission high quality, low cost health care
The 152 new primary care trusts are tasked with becoming strategic commissioning bodies. This means they must procure a range of provision for local people, which meets their health needs and delivers health improvements, by securing the highest value for their limited money. Stating the task is easy. Delivering it ...
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Practitioner view: Measuring outcomes in mental health and social care
Measuring outcomes is a direct way to improve the quality and accountability of services. It can help us to improve our understanding of the impact of services on people's lives. Those who use services and carers need reassurance that treatments and care provided are producing results for them as individuals, ...
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Comment
Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders
One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'
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Sophia Christie on primary care
'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'
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Carnall looks to establish the capital's long-term credentials
When Ruth Carnall took over as interim chief executive of NHS London in August 2006, she said she would manage it as though she were there for the long term.
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Cliff Prior profile: 'The only thing you can't predict is where it will go'
In his new job heading a group of not-for-profit organisations, former Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior will have a key role in reshaping community services. But first he has to explain what it is all about
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NICE hits out at 'flawed and inaccurate' cancer care report
An international report that claims the UK has among the worst access to cancer drugs is 'flawed' and 'inaccurate', the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said.
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Report calls for royal pharmaceutical college
Pharmacists should get their own royal college to unite the profession and give it a stronger voice, the government has concluded.
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Management skills call for trainee docs
Doctors should learn management as part of their undergraduate training, the British Association of Medical Managers and the British Medical Association has said.
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MPs call for PFI training
Staff who renegotiate the refinancing of private finance initiatives often 'lack commercial awareness' and must receive training, a Commons committee has found.
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Conservatives call for a halt to constant change
The NHS needs urgent action, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has told his new opposite number.
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Ex SHA leaders call for a 'radical' vision
The government must paint a coherent vision of the NHS's future and give more support to managers in implementing it, according to senior leaders leaving their posts this week.
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The SHA interviews, David Flory: 'People might say I'm cool and calculating. I'm not'
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of North East SHA
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Burns claims political pressure over PCTs
A long-standing senior NHS leader has spoken out to challenge government decisions on new primary care trust boundaries.
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Marketing code is 'overly bureaucratic'
The proposed NHS code of marketing has come under fire from the advertising industry and NHS communications professionals.
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The SHA interviews, Candy Morris: 'You need to help others build capacity and capability'
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of South East Coastal SHA
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How Buckinghamshire is moving opthalmology closer to home
There is a lot of rhetoric about moving care closer to home but how easy is it and can quality be maintained?
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CommentSimon Stevens on Brown's opening salvo
‘Mr Brown has chosen an issue that explicitly requires him to choose sides: patients v professionals’
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The SHA interviews,Mark Britnell: 'I didn't leave a good trust to be a performance management monkey
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of South Central SHA
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Mark Britnell on starting life as an SHA chief exec
'I recently chaired a conference where it was put to me that I would be neither a poacher nor a gamekeeper but rather the pheasant!'