All Health Service Journal articles in 12 April 2012 – Page 2
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HSJ Knowledge
How staff can lead the way in a redesign
There is no shortage of examples of staff-led redesign saving money while improving care - the workforce just needs the permission to do it, writes RCN chief executive Peter Carter.
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HSJ Knowledge
How an NHS-pharma partnership is improving prevention
By partnering with a pharmaceutical firm an East Midlands trust became the first in the region to achieve a major target for VTE risk assessment. Scott Savage explains.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to put great ideas into serious practice
Amazing ideas ran freely through one trust but it did not know how to make them a reality until it embedded innovation as a core value, explains Tony Bell.
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Comment
Tim Wilson: thirty good men and true
Reassurance, respect, relationships, responsibility and reporting.
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HSJ Knowledge
Diagnosis: earlier
Research has found that for many patients diagnosis is too slow, so an alliance of patients, professionals and charities is campaigning for earlier action
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: quiet panic at the DH
It is, as they say, the quiet ones you have to watch.
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HSJ Knowledge
In detail: how Kettering tackled VTE
How did Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust meet the national VTE assessment target? Scott Savage explains.
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Comment
Paul Corrigan: the integration conundrum
It seems to me that the more everyone agrees with the policy of integrated care, the further away the reality of integrated practice seems to be?
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Comment
Don Redding: give the public remote control
To create a mandate for the commissioning board that truly belongs to the public, the government should take a cue from the BBC.
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Comment
There are no clear winners from the new price-setting regime
Who stands to gain most from Monitor’s new power to dictate “local modifications” to the price of NHS services?
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HSJ Knowledge
Get to grips with qualification change
Is 2012 crunch time for EU recognition of professional qualifications? Elisabetta Zanon finds out.
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HSJ Knowledge
Board brilliance unpacked
What is it like working with a high performing NHS board? Penny Lock and Margot Corbin took a look inside the very best.
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HSJ Knowledge
How Colchester brought its services back in-house
Nick Chatten, Philip Kitchener and Marcus Hill explain in detail some of the issue they faced when Colchester brought its facilities services back in-house
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HSJ Local
Analysed: Birmingham and Solihull CCGs find their form
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: how the CCGs in Birmingham and Solihull are shaping up, and their plans to tackle QIPP.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why one trust brought all its facilities services back home
Why did one trust decide to return its estates and facilities services back in-house, what were the challenges and was it worth it in the end? Nick Chatten and colleagues explain.
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News
Acute trusts absent from local wellbeing boards
Emerging health and wellbeing boards believe they will successfully shape local health policies and drive service integration. But many boards still lack input from NHS providers, a survey shared exclusively with HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Knowledge
Serious about improving care? Then use the net promoter score
Health professionals are being urged to consider the way they measure the effectiveness of the care they give in a bid to further improve patient experience.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 12 April 2012
Are 12-hour nursing shifts harming care? Plus a tribute to a popular manager.
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News
Doctors: disabled patients get poorer care in hospital
A poll of hundreds of hospital doctors and GPs has found most believe patients with a learning disability get poorer care than the rest of the population.
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