All Service redesign articles – Page 34
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NewsCounty to develop “single service” pathology joint venture
Four acute trusts to work together on shared services Still to decide where non-urgent services will be based Union warns of transport difficulties Acute trusts across Kent have agreed to create a joint venture to deliver a single pathology service for the county, despite years of work, developing ...
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NewsFlagship learning difficulty programme branded a "failure"
A flagship national programme to move people with learning difficulties out of hospital has been branded a “failure” by a former minister after it emerged areas were struggling to set up specialist community services.
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HSJ LocalICS launches two new eating disorder teams
An integrated care system has set up two new community eating disorder teams as part of regional two year devolved commissioning pilot.
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HSJ LocalMajor reconfiguration aims to ease financial pressure
Leaders in the north east are drawing up plans to shake up emergency and elective care services as part of a second wave of hospital reconfiguration due for consultation next year.
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NewsThreatened heart unit relocates to meet new standards
A major hospital trust is to relocate its children’s heart services to ensure it meets new standards set by NHS England.
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HSJ PartnersUsing trusts' own data to identify improvement opportunities
Four Eyes Insight helps NHS trusts improve operational productivity. In this second of two articles, the company explains what it can add to trusts’ own efforts to become more productive across their clinical services and how its support for their improvement has expanded to cover a range of hospital operations.
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NewsThree hospital trusts to form alliance
Three acute trusts in the South West have agreed to form a hospital alliance focusing on identifying gaps in workforce and capital across the region.
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HSJ InteractiveTransforming care with innovative estates
An integrated care centre with a focus on proactive assessment is preventing multiple admissions among frail residents, says Alison Moore
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HSJ InteractiveBlurring traditional boundaries to strengthen primary care
Each new integrated care system demonstrates a new species of leadership, focused as much on the system and the population it serves as on individual organisations, writes Michael Macdonnell
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CommentIntegrated care has the potential to improve health outcomes
Chris Ham and Anna Charles outline the findings and recommendations of the health and social care committee’s review of integrated care development in the NHS
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HSJ LocalTrust considers centralising elective activity ahead of winter
East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust is considering centralising its elective orthopaedic services to help it better cope with next winter.
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HSJ Local
Three trust partnership finds £4m investment for community services
New models of working between three London mental health trusts has delivered new investment in services worth more than £4m, HSJ has learned.
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NewsWinners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2018
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2018 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Acute Service Redesign
Winner Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust: Single Clerking at BSUH: Redesigning the Acute Floor The single clerking project at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust involves the first doctor to see the patient completing full, high quality clerking, with no re-clerking later by another doctor. Unnecessary delays for patients ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Community Health Service Redesign
Winner Whittington Health Trust: eCommunity Growing demand on district nursing services run by Whittington Health Trust had led to demand exceeding capacity, multiple moved appointment times for patients and long distances between allocated visits. The eCommunity project aimed to maximise efficiency through using software to allocate patients and appointments to ...
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HSJ LocalBreaking: Acute and mental health trusts to merge
An acute hospital trust and mental health and community trust could merge into a single provider.
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CommentHow can pharma support NHS service change?
Steve How, Paul Midgley and Oli Hudson, of the Wilmington Healthcare Consulting Team, find some answers in NHS England guidance for commissioners
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NewsHospital chain expands after CEO retires
A West Midlands hospital chain will expand to cover three trusts, following the resignation of a neighbouring trust’s chief executive.
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CommentIntegration is not all about structure or organisational form
It is high time the community health sector was brought in from the cold and used as a willing flexible partner to redesign care for urgent and long care needs of our local populations, writes Matthew Winn
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health to keep services after divestment plan reversed
Community services will remain at Southern Health Foundation Trust after the new leadership team opted against a proposed divestment.