All Service redesign articles – Page 189
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Health Foundation extends Safer Patients Initiative
Twenty hospitals will today receive £165,000 each under a scheme to improve patient safety. Funded by the Health Foundation charity, the Safer Patients Initiative will see a tailored package of support for each hospital including access to international experts. The four hospitals in the scheme since its launch in 2004 ...
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Andrew Jones on conspiracy or cock-up
'It could be kindly argued that, by general lack of enthusiasm, a third of the country is yet to churn out any meaningful health activity data, yet alone customise or dynamise it to specific local goals. Perhaps more telling is that two-thirds have yet to even put together a simple ...
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Service-line economics goes to the heart of patient care
As we reveal this week, foundation regulator Monitor will be consulting trusts on compliance guidance to push the adoption of service-line economics (feature, page 22).
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And so to bed The problem with mental health inpatients
Mental healthcare faces a problem of bed shortages for inpatient care, but while a large part of the solution might be stronger community support rather than increasing the number of available beds, there is still a need in some places to boost their number. Mat Kinton and Suki Desai explain
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Belfast to get extra mental health services
A dedicated self-harm team, four additional cognitive behavioural therapists and a primary care mental health team for young people are to begin work in the North and West Belfast trust area. The services are part of the area's action plan on renewing communities.
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HSJ Knowledge
Resource to improve primary mental health services launched
The Care Services Improvement Partnership has published a practical guide to was produced as part of the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE, now part of CSIP) primary care and commissioning programme and aims to offer best-practice guidance for improving primary care mental health services.
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HSJ Knowledge
Care services efficiency delivery: demand forecasting and capacity planning
The care services efficiency delivery programme was established by the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of Releasing Resources to the Front Line, Sir Peter Gershon's review of public sector efficiency.
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New campaign focuses on health benefits of green spaces
Natural England, the new organisation that brings together English Nature, the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service has launched a campaign to emphasise the benefits to mental and physical health of spending time outdoors among wildlife and the natural environment.Find out more about Breathing Spaces ...
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Nicholson urges MPs to show courage on reconfiguration
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has urged MPs to concentrate not just on 'how many hospitals we have, but how many lives we can save and improve'. The plea was contained in an impassioned letter laying out the case for service reconfiguration.
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Rights and responsibilities is the issue on the Cabinet table
The government believes it has to reassert its power to make policy in response to the Brown-Blair faction-fighting of the autumn. Public services is one of six policy areas under debate (the others include the role of the state, crime and security) and the first to arrive on the Cabinet ...
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DoH publishes assistive technology report
The Department of Health has published a report highlighting how assistive technology can play its part in meeting the challenge of caring for an ageing population in the community. The report, Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology 2005-06, covers research projects in ...
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Government announces carer arrangements
The government has defined 'carer' with regard to new rights from 6 April next year for carers to request flexible working arrangements from their employers.Employment relations minister Jim Fitzpatrick announced today that the rules will cover employees caring for an adult who is: their spouse, partner or civil partner; a ...
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When Norma, Dot and Beckie had their say about NHS care...
A pioneering consultation event in Liverpool last week believes it could show the way forward in engaging the public in service redesign. Jeremy Davies was there
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HSJ Knowledge
Predicting the future
Cutting emergency hospital admissions among those with long-term conditions would save the NHS millions. But how can those at risk be identified, traced and their needs addressed? Daloni Carlisle looks at two solutions
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Chronic diseases threaten economies
Chronic diseases including heart and lung disease, cancer and diabetes should be more prominent in international development agendas as they threaten the economic growth of the developed and developing worlds, according to a new report.The report by the Oxford Health Alliance found that chronic diseases can cost up to 6.8 ...
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Liam Hughes on joint working
Solid local partnerships are essential for PCTs to achieve their objectives for local communities
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More choice for mental health service users
Mental health service users will have powers to chose their own path through services and retain more control over their lives and the treatments they receive under new guidance, Our Choices in Mental Health, published today by the Department of Health.www.mhchoice.org.uk
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Report targets partnership working between health and schools
The Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Health have published a report on how extended schools can help health professionals achieve targets on issues such as teenage pregnancy, immunisation and childhood obesity. The Extended Schools and ...
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Minister puts onus on trusts to negotiate unbundled tariff
Primary care and acute trusts need to negotiate their own ways to unbundle the payment by results tariff, health minister Lord Warner said as he launched the 'road test' of next year's tariff.
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Managing a merger? Don't lose the plot
A new era of NHS mergers is upon us. But lessons from the business world show that they can be painful and uncomfortable. Steve Downing outlines a theatrical route to tackling the problems