All Health Service Journal articles in 28 November 2014
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CommentTime to tackle spiralling Scottish outpatient waits
Attention needed to restore short waiting times in Scotland
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Ebola lesson 4: development of interprofessional teams and leadership skills
Teamwork can accelerate leadership development
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HSJ KnowledgeEbola lesson 3: how to use volunteers' Ebola experience in the UK
The NHS needs to draw on staff with the appropriate training, experience and confidence to handle this kind of situation safely
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Ebola lesson 2: dealing with the psychology of Ebola
A campaign of consistent, clear and calm messages can help overcome hysteria caused by a crisis
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HSJ KnowledgeEbola lesson 1: the importance of infection control
The Ebola crisis has revealed some inadequacies with screening and the flow of patients through processes like decontamination. Infection control must be the bedrock of all health systems
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HSJ KnowledgeThe Ebola crisis: four lessons for the NHS
How a British team in Sierra Leone helped boost the health system
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NewsTrusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent last year
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CommentBuilding future NHS organisations starts with citizens
Empower patients to take more control over their own care
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HSJ PartnersDelivering new models of care: a recipe to avoid failure
Transformational change need not fall at the first hurdle
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HSJ LocalProposed merger between Kent CCGs dropped
STRUCTURE: A proposed merger between two clinical commissioning groups in Kent has been dropped following indications from NHS England that CCG mergers will not be supported.
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HSJ LocalSolent blames agency costs for unplanned deficit
FINANCE: A community and mental health provider has blamed increased agency spending and difficulties delivering its cost improvement plan for a £7.1m unplanned deficit halfway through the financial year.
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CommentFour reasons to be optimistic about the future of healthcare
Why the future is looking brighter
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NewsMonitor: Role for competition in new provider landscape
Competition in the NHS will retain a key role in delivering high quality and ‘efficient’ care in the new landscape carved out by the NHS Five Year Forward View, a Monitor official has indicated
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HSJ PartnersComplete our short survey on NHS purchasing
The NHS is facing its biggest financial squeeze in its history over the coming years. It is constantly looking to be more efficient and make savings, but what does procurement look like and how it could be improved?
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SupplementsClinical engagement roundtable: Take the doctors shopping
What role should clinicians have in procurement?
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HSJ KnowledgeBristol takes a modern approach to commissioning mental health services
The CCG has overhauled the commissioning process
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CommentEnd Game: The world news according to video linked Stevens
NHS England chief gets an unexpected earful
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NewsCCGs poised to defy pharma by switching to cheaper, unlicensed drug
Clinical commissioning groups across England are mulling the use of an unlicensed drug which could save the NHS millions of pounds, HSJ has learned
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CommentNational tariff must balance risk between national and local commissioners
Harder to work together
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SupplementsChris Ham on ‘bilingual’ clinical leaders
Leaders have to be fluent as managers and clinicians