Acute Care – Page 397
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Communicating major change in the NHS
How can you woo the workforce into embarking on change rather than alarm them with the unknown? Dominic Walters explains
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Hilary Thomas on caring for the whole patient
My 75-year-old father has recently had a coronary angiogram and been referred for bypass graft surgery. When I was a cardiology senior house officer in the Jurassic period, he would never have been referred for such surgery at this age.
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HIV services: caring for older patients
As people with HIV/AIDS live longer, services must adapt to meet the needs of more patients and the first generation of HIV-positive pensioners. Emma Dent reports
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Paul Dutton on failing NHS foundation trusts
The Department of Health this month issued a consultation paper that rules out insolvency for hospital trusts that are failing financially, a move that risks undermining the original concept of what foundation trusts were meant to be and achieve.
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Preventing NHS data security slip-ups
Simplifying the way users log on to computer networks can help NHS organisations increase their efficiency and improve compliance with data security requirements. Nick Lamidey explains
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Healthcare providers respond to public reporting
In the wake of health minister Lord Darzi's push for quality measurement as a driver for change, there is already renewed interest in public reporting.
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ISTCs: where are all the patients?
Under-capacity independent sector treatment centres look set to leave the health service £350m out of pocket, despite an upturn in the number of patients treated. Could a system facelift improve usage? Alison Moore investigates
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Moyes warns: invest in governance
Foundation trusts have been warned they are not investing enough time or money in memberships and boards of governors. The Department of Health may reassert its control if an organisations cannot prove it is locally accountable, said Bill Moyes, executive chairman of regulator Monitor.
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Andrew Lansley backs value-based drug pricing
Pharmaceutical companies should be paid according to the benefits that their drugs bring to patients, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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Northwick Park Hospital cleared over maternity deaths
An investigation into maternal deaths at Northwick Park Hospital has found the trust innocent of any wrongdoing.
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Lord Carter to head up NHS competition panel
Lord Carter of Coles is to be the first chair and director of the NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel.
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Stroke services improving - Royal College of Physicians
Stroke services have shown marked improvement in the last two years, an audit by the Royal College of Physicians has shown. The audit of 224 hospitals in all areas of the UK except Scotland found near universal provision of specialist stroke beds.
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NHS failure regime: up to 92 trusts may be culled
The Department of Health expects to cull up to six hospital trusts a year under its new failure regime, figures in its impact assessment reveal.The document shows the DH expects to save £200m a year under the plans, which are out for consultation. It focuses on six trusts affected by ...
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NHS in virtual reality: second sight
The virtual world of Second Life has a health service, so you can now tour a cyber polyclinic. Daloni Carlisle explains
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HSJ KnowledgeComparing UK maternity services
Recently, HSJ looked at spending and productivity in England and Scotland. This article investigates differences in the maternity services across three countries (England, Northern Ireland and Wales - reliable data for Scotland was not found for the whole period).
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Comment
Ali Mohammed on caring for NHS staff
Having just returned from holiday, I am once again struck by how much attention goes into the little things done by industries that focus heavily on customer care.
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Neil Goodwin on chief executive boredom
I have been reflecting on my time as a chief executive, specifically that in the latter part of my career I experienced increasing periods of boredom.
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Health system integration: straight to the point
Data analysis is revealing why people make inappropriate calls to the emergency services and prompting the discovery of new solutions to the problem, reports Stuart Shepherd
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View from the floor: end of life care
Helene Hibbert is a Macmillan occupational therapist. She works in end of life care at St Mary's Hospital in London's Imperial College Healthcare trust
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HSJ KnowledgeReducing the traffic death toll
Why are the media and public not campaigning for new laws that would reduce road traffic collisions, particularly when nearly a half of all UK road deaths (40 per cent) involve young people?