All Service redesign articles – Page 190
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Andrew Castle on service improvement
'There is a belief in some parts of industry that better quality costs more. This is a fallacy'
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Stephen Thornton on getting engaged, committing to a partner, raising offspring
'One of the common misconceptions around patient safety work is that it is all common sense. But if it were that simple then why don't all our hospitals have a zero per cent adverse event rate?'
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Managing patients with complex chronic conditions
Derek Feeley is director of healthcare policy and strategy at the Scottish Executive's Health Department. He has just spent a year in the United States on a Harkness/Health Foundation fellowship, looking at chronic-disease management.
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National learning disabilities audit updated
The Healthcare Commission has published an update on its forthcoming audit of services for people with learning disabilities.It outlines which types of services will be reviewed, the pilot schemes now under way to test the methodology and plans for the national roll out.The update can be found ...
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How Middle England turned into a nation of reconfiguration rebels
Demonstrations against changes to hospital services have brought thousands on to the streets. Tash Shifrin spoke to some of the campaigners about their aims
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Author of reconfiguration blueprint rails against 'wrong, confusing and puzzling' opposition
The man who wrote the blueprint for Scottish health services has hit out at politicians and unions who originally backed his plans but are now opposing them as they are rolled out locally.
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GM Live 2: new dates coming
It's always good to look up old friends. How have they changed? What's better? What's worse? Over the coming months in this HSJGood Management Live gateway we will look at the progress the hosts of the first series of events are making.
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Helen Bevan on the push for productivity
'Over the past 10 years, we have learned a great deal about applying the principles of modern operations management to healthcare delivery'
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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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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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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 ...