All Health Service Journal articles in 29 January 2009 – Page 4

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    Ali Mohammed on NHS workplace frustrations

    2009-01-26T01:00:00Z

    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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    18-week target: how we lost the NHS wait

    2009-01-26T01:00:00Z

    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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    HSJ supplement / 18 weeks

    2008-12-08T14:47:38Z

    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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    HSJ Supplement / 18 weeks

    2008-12-08T14:41:38Z

    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 supplement / 18 weeks

    2008-12-08T14:34:40Z

    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 supplement / 18 weeks

    2008-12-08T14:28:50Z

    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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    Nick Chapman / Philippa Robinson

    2008-12-08T14:22:40Z

    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 ...