Acute Care – Page 418
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All-parliamentary group discusses patient safety
Health minister Ann Keen used her background in nursing to give a personal account of her approach to improving hospital safety at December's meeting of the all-parliamentary group on patient safety.
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Teaming up for patient safety
Torbay Hospital, part of South Devon Healthcare trust, is on course to cut its MRSA rates in half for 2007.Torbay is part of the Health Foundation's safer patients initiative and is twinned with Musgrove Park Hospital, based in Taunton and Somerset trust.
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Business improvement qualification helps lean champions aim higher
Airedale trust's lean champions have earned national vocational qualifications in business improvement techniques, helping them in their drive to eliminate wasteful practices and enhance patient care.
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Try the human touch
Paula Hyde and Ruth Boaden look at how HR managers have an increasingly important role in boosting performance
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Perfect match
The training of more junior staff has been neglected in the past. But an initiative that provides match-funding for investment in their skills is a big boost for those in bands 1-4, reports Stuart Shepherd
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Helen Bevan on the productive theatre
Hot on the heels of the successful Productive Ward, the NHS Institute has begun the Productive Operating Theatre programme in response to great demand.
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Putting discharge delays to bed
Better systems are needed to put a stop to bed blocking. Tom Rothwell examines the problem and what can be done to overcome it
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In the line of fire
Joining the Territorial Army develops skills such as leadership, communication, initiative and resource control. That’s why the service has much to teach managers, says Paul Gander
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coaching
Paul GanderAs with so many management ideas favoured by the private sector, coaching has been given a warm reception in many parts of the NHS.Coaching associate at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Sue Mortlock explains some of the changes that have taken place. “Many years ago, it was ...
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Steve Onyett on a network with attitude
Junior health minister Lord Darzi’s interim report on the future of the NHS highlights the importance of effective leadership and stable contexts for service improvement. It would be tragic if we missed this historic opportunity to make the best use of our current understanding of leadership and leadership development.A recent ...
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Six of the best
Six national demonstrator sites are leading the way in using a powerful new set of tools from Skills for Health to redesign jobs and services, says Stuart Shepherd
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David Lammy
John Rogers, chief executive of Skills for Health – the Sector Skills Council for the NHS, independent and voluntary healthcare sectors - interviews David Lammy, Minister for Skills and former Under-Secretary of State for Health. JR: In your current role as Minister for Skills - and in view of ...
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Waiting times: cutting inequality
Tackling health inequalities is a key part of the NHS Plan. Historically, your age, gender, ethnicity and deprivation have affected how long you wait for surgery. This inequality has been reduced across England, but data indicates it has not been eradicated.
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Questions over infection control funds
The NHS Confederation has questioned Department of Health claims that its infection control strategy is being supported by £270m of new money.
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Trusts in dark over 18-week progress
'Early achiever' trusts still cannot say if they hit the 18-week target by the end of 2007, because of delays in upgrading their computer systems.
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Ann Keen tours hospital ahead of transplant report
Health minister Ann Keen toured the dialysis unit at Hammersmith Hospital in west London ahead of publication of a report by the Organ Donation Taskforce this week.
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Exclusive: leaked letter shows tensions over C diff outbreak
A letter leaked to HSJ has revealed the strained relationship between the government and the Healthcare Commission following the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells infection outbreak.
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Frank Burns on politicians, short cuts and dead ends
Those of us interested in the genesis of high-profile national policy will have enjoyed the revelation, on Radio 4's Wiring the NHS programme, that in 2002 Sir John Pattison, then responsible Director for NHS IT, was given all of 10 minutes to make a pitch to the then prime minister ...
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MMC specialty training recruitment 2008 - dates announced
The Modernising Medical Careers programme board has written to doctors outlining the high-level principles agreed by the board and setting out the dates between which the majority of recruitment for specialty training programmes in 2008 will take place (5 January to 16 May).
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Contract proposals for staff and associate specialists
The government has agreed to the new contract for staff and associate specialist doctors negotiated between NHS Employers and the BMA, subject to adoption of changed transitional arrangements.