All Service redesign articles – Page 4
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CommentNHS leaders do not have the data they need to keep patients safe
James Titcombe, Melanie Leis, and Peter Howitt delineate the major themes of a roundtable to address challenges in improving patient safety, emphasising the need for data sharing nuances, cultural shifts, optimising limited resources, prioritising workforce plans, and staff well-being
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CommentDelay cost lives during the pandemic, let's not repeat that mistake with climate change
Covid’s harsh lessons underscore the urgency for NHS-led climate action, emphasising efficiency, innovation, and immediate intervention to protect lives and the planet, writes Luke O’Shea
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CommentICS teething troubles are the price they must pay for success
Richard Taunt says ‘grounded hope’ about integrated care systems might hold the key to their success.
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NewsWard staff ‘must accept extra workload to help A&E’
Hospitals are being prevented from adopting models which spread risk away from emergency departments because other teams refuse to take on the extra work, according to a top accident and emergency doctor.
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CommentNHS Different is 'amazing'
In this blog, first published in the NHS England ICB Bulletin, the newly appointed head of NHS Different, Joy Hunter, traces the organisation’s history and sets out her overarching ambitions
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HSJ InteractiveRoundtable: Understanding challenges in nuclear medicine delivery
Wilmington Healthcare organised a roundtable meeting, fully funded by Advanced Accelerator Applications, a Novartis company, to understand the need for investment in nuclear medicine for cancer treatment by NHS and the need to expand MRT to ensure UK cancer patients were not left behind
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HSJ PartnersHow insourcing models can be better integrated to support wider NHS services
Martin Watts explains how insourcing services can be more effective when better integrated with day-to-day NHS activities
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Developing a Positive Safety Culture Award
Partnered by WINNER Hywel Dda UHB - Multidisciplinary Maternity and Neonatal Risk and Governance Team: Changing Workplace Culture Around Adverse Events in Maternity and Neonatal Care
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year
WINNER Guy’s & St Thomas’ FT: Mechanical Life Support
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CommentUnearthing the hidden riches of your organisation’s data
The board of directors at AphA write on ways an organisation can benefit from proper refinement of data, shedding light on three critical functions – business intelligence, data science and analytics
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CommentWhere to find the answers to the NHS’s problems
To solve some very significant NHS problems, one place to look is the part of the NHS family outside the formal NHS – social enterprises, writes Richard Taunt
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CommentThe wretchedness of NHS financial planning
The past few years have seen central sustainability funds and incentive schemes created and destroyed. Richard Murray and Siva Anandaciva explore and shed light on NHS’s dysfunctional financial planning
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CommentThe NHS needs a dedicated agency to drive the use of new technology
A serious strategy to innovate is needed to save the health service. Barbara Harpham gives an insight on how this can be achieved
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CommentMobilising the goalposts for a better NHS
The NHS Blithering ICB is learning to live with complexity, ambiguity and an unconscious top team as it goes on a journey to meaningful change. By Julian Patterson
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HSJ PartnersGuidance on bladder cancer needs to be more specific still
Efforts to reduce variation in treatment for bladder cancer are welcome, but panellists at a recent roundtable event spoke of the need to develop more specific approaches to target patients at the highest risk of poor outcomes
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News‘Fewer managers’ calls are ‘nonsense’, says NHS England review author
The health service has failed to invest enough in primary care and prevention, according to a new report for NHS England, whose author said the service had been ‘fixated’ on acute care for the past two decades.
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CommentSocial investment funding: a lifeline for the NHS
The potential for social investment has been demonstrated on an individual service level and now is the time for it to fuel ICS-wide innovation funding to support transformation and improve patient care, writes Katy Nex
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HSJ PartnersThe role of electronic bed management technology in driving capacity improvements
Nick Sinclair, chief operating officer at Medway Foundation Trust, on why the NHS needs to think differently about operations and bed management to drive sustainable healthcare delivery
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CommentHopson: covid proved charities are 'key strategic partners' for the NHS
NHS England chief strategy officer Chris Hopson urges new approach to partnership working with charities.
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CommentThe five steps needed to make NHS Impact successful
Penny Pereira and Malte Gerhold discuss the five guiding principles that will aid providers, ICSs, and national officials in implementing NHS Impact to ensure that it does not fall short like earlier national reform programmes