All Service redesign articles – Page 99
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News
NHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn
NHS organisations are preparing to have to shave a third off their running costs if the Conservatives take power next year.
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HSJ Knowledge
When doctors network change can happen fast
Easy online access to shared information and peer discussion is proving a prime mover in engaging clinicians with quality assessment and transforming services
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Comment
Stephen Eames on defending district general hospitals
Reconfiguration of acute and community services is bound to be on the cards again, once the dust has settled on the autumn QIPP and Monitor downside submissions.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to make sexual health promotion a success
Public and patient engagement in genito-urinary and HIV services in Coventry has included a comic turn and simpler branding, reports Lynne Greenwood
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HSJ Knowledge
Operating theatre management
In 2007 we examined initiatives to improve throughput of operating theatres in a large teaching hospital, with 52 operating theatres each running at an estimated cost of £4800 per day, and performing 50-60,000 operations per year.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on no-frills healthcare
Who actually likes Ryanair? For the benefit of sustainably minded readers who would not dream of blowing their hard earned moolah on a cheap weekend in Bratislava, the Ryanair pricing model starts with an unfeasibly small headline fare, supplemented by an increasingly imaginative list of charges.
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Comment
Gary Belfield on world class commissioning
World class commissioning is not a status to be achieved and retained but an ongoing process of improvement which has patients’ changing needs at its heart
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News
Surgery productivity tool could save trusts £1.6m a year
Trusts could save over £1.5m a year by implementing a programme that encourages operating theatre staff to work more productively.
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HSJ Knowledge
How digital NHS services make use of the personal touch
Joel Bailey looks at how NHS organisations are incorporating information technology into service design to improve patient experience and outcomes
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News
London PCT and council consider merger
Waltham Forest council is attempting to merge with NHS Waltham Forest in a bid to protect the primary care trust before a potential reorganisation of London’s health structures.
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Comment
Chris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation
Tighter budgets and more integrated care mean the co-operation and competition panel must change tack away from its old policy of relying on competitive markets
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HSJ Knowledge
Book Review: Emergence - The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
How communities evolve gives clues to better healthcare, says Steven Johnson
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News
'NHS must be protected' - Unison
Unison has called on NHS workers to unite and press for a temporary ban on the provision of public health care by private companies.
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Comment
Mike Farrar on QIPP - quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
QIPP needs to become woven into the NHS’s DNA, and efficiencies come from the avoidable use of NHS resources, effective partnerships and best practice
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS staff benefits: for the chop?
Cherished perks for NHS staff such as workplace nurseries and subsidised canteens could be the first thing cash-strapped employers look to cut. Alison Moore investigates
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Comment
John Redwood on NHS efficiency
Having experienced success and failure in a wide variety of organisations, the former Welsh secretary spells out his recipe for an effective and efficient NHS
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Comment
Sophia Christie: in the NHS, information is power
“When I started in 2006… my health was of low standard, I was overweight and had low self esteem due to several strokes.
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News
DH is told 137,000 NHS posts must go in next five years
The Department of Health has been told the NHS in England will need to slash its workforce by 137,000 if it is to achieve its planned £20bn savings by 2014, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
AIDS prevention
The Newham and Tower Hamlets HIV/AIDS Prevention Partnership is a joint initiative funded by NHS Newham and NHS Tower Hamlets.
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HSJ Knowledge
Integrated care: pride of the community
District nurses embody the high quality workforce envisioned by Darzi, but the sector lacks the commitment to attract new nurses to this 150 year old service, says Daloni Carlisle