All Health Service Journal articles in 29 January 2009
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HSJ Knowledge
Nick Chapman / Philippa Robinson
Foreword It was always a tough ask - could the NHS fundamentally change its ways of working for elective patients, transform the quality of the service that patients experience, reduce the backlogs of long waits, and cut waiting times dramatically? "Waiting lists" and all they implied had seemingly been the ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
Success storiesAlison MooreWhen the 18 weeks target was announced in 2004 there was widespread scepticism that the NHS could ever deliver it. But in just four years patients are now getting treatment for both admitted and non-admitted pathways in this time – and the median wait is just eight weeks ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
Sustainability/transformationIngrid TorjesenIn the past, elective care waiting time targets focused on specific parts of the patient pathway – waits for outpatient appointment or operations – rather than the whole journey. This how the 18-week programme is different.Patients have been followed and their whole journey mapped for the first time. By ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Supplement / 18 weeks
Technology challengeDaloni Carlisle Clinicians identify problems that need solving, technologists develop solutions that the NHS then adopts as a way forward. Neat, but obviously in the real world it doesn’t actually work like that.In the real world there is a gap between the clinicians and industry that means innovators do ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
DiagnosticsAlison MooreDiagnostics is one of the great success stories of the 18 weeks programme: the numbers waiting more than six weeks for a test have reduced from nearly 600,000 to less than 15,000 in two years.As well as helping the NHS achieve the 18 week target, this is better for ...
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Supplements
18-week target: how we lost the NHS wait
It was always a tough ask - could the NHS fundamentally change its ways of working for elective patients, transform the quality of the service that patients experience, reduce the backlogs of long waits, and cut waiting times dramatically?
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on NHS workplace frustrations
Why do people click 'reply to all' in an email when replying to the originator alone would suffice? This normally generates a further set of emails from those copied in, asking not to be copied in.
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News
Personal branding: success at last
In the final part in her series, Debbie Smith explains how to use your personal brand to secure that big promotion
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Comment
Yi Mien Koh on the world class commissioning story
In December, the board at Hillingdon primary care trust completed its world class commissioning assurance panel day.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS discharge planning: lost for words
GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle
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HSJ Knowledge
Social marketing: the medium is the message
Health promotion suffers from a 'conspiracy of passive failure'. Could work in the North West turn it around, asks Stuart Shepherd
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Blogs
Going forwards with healthcare
There are many 'management speak' constructs that baffle, amuse and provide opportunities to be cynical about the art of management and leadership.
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on NHS kindness
At the end of 2008, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson was reported as saying that NHS staff have lost their compassion and that his organisation wants to help bring it back. I could not agree less.
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News
Rose Gibb goes to court to fight for payoff
Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, goes to the High Court today to try to get her controversial payoff.Ms Gibb, who left the trust just days before the publication of a critical Healthcare Commission report into outbreaks of C difficile, is claiming damages for ...
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News
Chief medical officer launches public health awards
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has established an annual awards event for those working in public health.
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News
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News
Leak reveals Alan Johnson's PFI concerns
Health secretary Alan Johnson's concerns about the NHS in the recession have been leaked in an email from the chair of NHS South East Coast.
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Comment
David Levy on the Clinical Leaders Network
I recently had the pleasure of attending a meeting of strategic health authority leads of the Clinical Leaders Network. There were about 30 of us in the room, in three groups.
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News
Specialist doctors say NHS is institutionally ageist
Almost half of specialist geriatric doctors think the NHS is institutionally ageist, according to a survey by Help the Aged.
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News
NHS sets itself tough targets for green future
The health service is to set itself up as a trailblazer for public sector sustainability.