All Service redesign articles – Page 185
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Pearse Butler, Eastern: 'I believe in strong, visible leadership'
Leaving the house at quarter to five on a Monday morning reminds Pearse Butler why he won't be looking to fill the role running Eastern strategic health authority on a permanent basis.
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Behind locked doors
The shocking state of some facilities at Broadmoor Hospital means staff struggle to provide modern care. Emma Dent talks to the people planning its redevelopment
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The maths behind real case management
It seems a deceptively simple plan - if you can identify the relatively small number of patients likely to use acute services intensively, you can concentrate on simpler, cheaper and more effective preventative care. It was a promise first held out in work by Kaiser Pemanente in the US and ...
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Just the end of the beginning for Monitor
With 62 members, the foundation movement is coming of age. Monitor chair Bill Moyes offers a compelling picture of where foundation trusts are heading, and outlines his vision for the regulator's future
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Hammersmith Hospitals trust to cut beds
A leading teaching hospital has warned employees that a programme of service redesign will mean treating fewer patients, in fewer beds, with fewer staff.
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Comment
MALCOLM LOWE-LAURI on Boards and Barricades
The best boards are where the debate involves all the players, is messy but retains a sense of form
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The SHA interviews, Barbara Hakin: 'I've got a very strong sense of fair'
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of East Midlands SHA
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Order in the house: will legislation strike the right balance?
The supervised community treatment order is the latest legislative tool aimed at tackling 'revolving door' patients. But does it go too far? Mark Gould hears the pros and cons
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SHA hurries to beat bad press on service review
Health chiefs at NHS South East Coast are rushing to canvass public and patient opinions before their proposals for a review of patient services in Kent get too much negative press.
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.
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Hewitt promises to back 'unpopular decisions'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has given her strongest promise yet that she will back managers wanting to drive through difficult hospital closures and service reconfiguration.
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NHS bureaucrats are holding back change
Ian Smith got to within touching distance of the NHS chief executive job last year. Here he makes the case for managers to revolutionise their focus and free themselves from Whitehall
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Ten leaders who could put reform progress back on track
What do we know of the chief executives who will be running the new strategic health authorities from next week?
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Baby Boomers strain services
The pressure of an ageing population will compel governments around the world to change the funding of public services, according to a new study from consultants Deloitte.
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Comment
We can work it out: dementia and the baby boomers
As the baby boomer generation ages, it will present some expensive challenges to services for people with dementia. Alison Moore reports
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Nurses ready to strike over pay award
Nurses have said they are prepared to strike over this year's pay award.
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PCT autonomy plans dropped
The Department of Health has backed away from proposals to give primary care trusts complete autonomy to set policies on NHS funding for continuing care.
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Service redesign 'needs scrutiny', says Audit Commission
Local government must have a stronger voice in service redesign and commissioning decisions to ensure the public's concerns are heard by the NHS, according to Audit Commission chair Sir Michael Lyons.
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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Trusts told to stop attacking each other
The primary care trust network has urged trusts to move on from blaming each other after PCTs came under attack from their acute peers.