All Acute care articles – Page 423
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Equality duties
Despite the scathing and sceptical reaction from the press, the decision to implement a policy which provides for seriously ill Muslim patients to have their beds turned to faceMeccais a sensible and pragmatic action.It comes in response to the positive equality duties which are now imposed on NHS trusts in ...
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The benefits of picture archiving technology
The national IT programme is proclaiming a triumph at last, says Lyn Whitfield
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Engaging clinicians in NHS leadership
John Clark and colleagues report on a project that aims to break down bunker-like regimes and involve medical staff in trust leadership
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CMI
A new report suggests that organisations in the health sector have a misplaced confidence about their ability to cope with uncertainty and change.The survey, carried out by the Chartered Management Institute, shows that, of the top concerns raised, only 51 per cent of organisations in the health sector believe that ...
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Comment
Trevor Ludlam on
The National Programme for IT was established to deliver front-line systems and services that would deliver major benefits for NHS organisations, staff and patients. Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service has been steadily turning the vision of integrated information, communication and technology into a reality.Having just retired as director of Nottinghamshire Health ...
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The information highway
Two doctors are transforming the way in which the NHS collects and uses data, says Daloni Carlisle
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News
Bromley Hospitals trust fails cleanliness spot check
Bromley Hospitals trust has been rapped for breaching the hygiene code after a Healthcare Commission spot check.
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News
Unison takes Monitor to court in wake of income cap silence
Unison has launched judicial review proceedings against foundation trust regulator Monitor in a bid to stop trusts using arm's-length organisations to expand private patient work.
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News
Council opposes East Sussex maternity plans
Changes to maternity services in East Sussex have been put on hold after the county council's health scrutiny committee referred the plans to the health secretary.
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News
'Pay for performance' could be next, says NHS medical director
The NHS medical director has warned managers of the national clinical audit programme that they 'must deliver' or they could lose their contract.
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Patient reports are simple and useful
Despite all the data flowing around the NHS, the question of whether the patient feels better after a procedure is an extremely difficult one to answer. Some clinicians keep their own records, but more often than not they are interested only in whether what they did was successful from their ...
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Making 2008 the year of race equality in the NHS
With the new year come new opportunities to improve the health service and strengthen its commitment to racial equality. Helen Hally shares her NHS wish list for 2008
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Making 2008 the year of race equality in the NHS
With the new year come new opportunities to improve the health service and strengthen its commitment to racial equality. Helen Hally shares her NHS wish list for 2008
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Sexuality - stamping out discrimination in the workplace
Equality campaigns in health and social care have often overlooked the issue of sexuality and it is time that this changed, says Blair McPherson
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Sexuality - stamping out discrimination in the workplace
Equality campaigns in health and social care have often overlooked the issue of sexuality and it is time that this changed, says Blair McPherson
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Social movements in the health service
A hospital division has achieved unified working by agreeing a charter for staged change, write Jon Baber and Mary Sexton
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Stephen Ramsden on punitive processes
How best can we drive up quality and safety in the NHS? The Darzi review will be important in determining the right balance between regulation and organisationally driven approaches. This is not an either/or scenario. We need both, but too much regulation will be counter-productive and demoralising to staff.
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System change hits activity records
Over the second quarter of 2007-08 the overall performance of NHS organisations as measured by the Better Care, Better Value indicators has fallen slightly, but the overall change since the start of 2006-07 is still impressive.
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News
Watchdog gives maternity services a 'wake-up call'
NHS trusts have accepted that last week's Healthcare Commission report into maternity services should serve as a 'wake-up call' but have complained that the review's methodology may have treated them unfairly.
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News
Hospitals are 'fast tracking' elderly into care, CSCI finds
A damning report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection has implicated NHS hospitals in an unfair tendency to 'fast track' elderly people into care homes.