Acute Care – Page 417
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HSJ Knowledge
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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HSJ Knowledge
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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Women consultants 'treat fewer patients'
Rising numbers of women consultants could lead to a long-term decline in productivity, academics have warned.
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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.
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HSJ Knowledge
Franklin Oikelome and Ronny Flynn on the NHS equality record
The NHS is the largest single employer in the UK, employing over a million people. Since its inception, it has relied on a workforce with a high proportion of black and minority ethnic staff, many of whom were actively recruited in the 1950s and 1960s to pioneer the new health ...
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Out of the picture
The NHS is still dragging its feet on race equality, especially in top posts. So will the relaunched Breaking Through programme kick-start the revolution, asks Caroline White
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Cambodia
In the second of series on volunteering abroad, Patricia Sloan talks about how she is settling in to a new life in Cambodia.It is exactly two months since I left from Manchester Airport outward bound for Phnom Penh and into the unknown. I had spent the weeks prior to ...
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Ann Keen pledges to support Productive Ward
Health minister Ann Keen has pledged her support to the Productive Ward programme, which is designed to help ward nurses release more timefor direct patient care.
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Lesley Wright on making everyone a quality manager
Quality is something we all hear a great deal about. But when asked the question 'how do you define quality?' many stop, pause and think, and a period of silence is followed by a variety of responses.
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Ken Jarrold on an NHS birthday to remember
This year could be the best for the NHS in England for some time. Challenges will not be in short supply, including the 18-week target, infection control, foundation status and maintaining hard-won financial stability. However, it should be the first year for a while that is not dominated by financial ...
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Anger over C difficile pay-off
The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.
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Streamlining interpreting services in the NHS
Changing the way interpreting services are used can save money and improve patient care, as Roz de Silva explains
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News
Ash's payout unlikely to mean flood of claims
Actor Leslie Ash's £5m compensation will not lead to a flood of successful complaints, the NHS Litigation Authority has underlined.
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Women denied pain relief during childbirth
Women are often left alone during childbirth and denied proper pain relief according to a survey.
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Private patients' unpaid bills leave trusts chasing millions
NHS trusts and foundation trusts are owed millions in outstanding fees from private patients, HSJ has learned.
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Accessible MRI scan plan backfires
A hospital trust's attempt to provide accessible MRI scans for some of its patients has left it nursing a bill of around £10,000 per scan.
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Comment
Hospital beds - dispelling myths
Throughout the NHS's history, politicians have been under pressure to protest against proposed hospital closures. But having more beds is not always better. In fact, too many hospital beds can lead to imbalances in overall health service provision and damage the quality of services, argues Richard Banyard
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KSF – the challenges ahead
Affecting around 1 million NHS staff on Agenda for Change terms and conditions, the Knowledge and Skills Framework is now helping many NHS trusts to achieve their workforce priorities. It supports them in re-designing their services, as well as in developing and retaining their workforce and engaging with their staff. ...
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Gillian Hastings on a patient safety revolution
Working in quality improvement, we hear constant sound bites about the need to change the organisational culture in healthcare and develop a culture of patient safety. But what does this change involve and how can we help bring it about?