All articles by Alison Moore – Page 72
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SupplementsHSJ special supplement: primary care
This week’s HSJ supplement takes a look at primary care, featuring articles on regulation, referral management, community services and sustainability.
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SupplementsWill commissioning reform aid integration? A special HSJ supplement
A special supplement from HSJ, in association with KPMG, this week looks at whether reforming how healthcare services are commissioned can break down the existing barriers to offering and delivering integrated services.
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NewsEighty trusts call in lawyers over board level exits
Nearly 80 NHS organisations have employed law firms to deal with the departure of board members over the past five years, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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HSJ KnowledgeMaximising the mutually beneficial value of apprenticeships in acute care
The value of apprenticeships is proving to be beneficial to an acute hospital trust, its staff and its patients. Alison Moore finds out how both parties are getting the best out of apprenticeships.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow third sector hospital ownership is keeping healthcare close to home
The transfer of an NHS community hospital to charitable ownership is helping provide key healthcare services to users closer to home, as Alison Moore discovers.
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HSJ KnowledgeMusculoskeletal services: accessing physio need not be a pain in the neck
A dedicated phone line can help patients to self-manage or to see a physiotherapist sooner, says Alison Moore
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy patient safety should remain the priority in healthcare
Responsibility for the safety of patients is a cornerstone of healthcare. Alison Moore looks at how changes to the NHS will affect its approach to this fundamental commitment.
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CommentImproving end of life care: how IT processes can help comply with final wishes
Many terminally ill patients have strong views on where they would like to die and IT is offering healthcare professions a method of responding, says HSJ’s Alison Moore
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HSJ Local
Care eclipsed by 'management goals' at Suffolk mental health trust
PERFORMANCE: A Suffolk mental health trust’s governance and leadership was criticised in an independent review commissioned after the suicide of an inpatient and following nine homicides caused by service users and former service users over two years.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a chemotherapy outreach service is putting care into the community
An outreach chemotherapy van is part of a new approach to improving care delivery in the community, says Alison Moore.
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SupplementsManaging long-term conditions: an HSJ special report
Alison Moore and Daloni Carlisle look at the increasing importance of improving care for patients long-term conditions in an HSJ special report.
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HSJ KnowledgeAre commissioners in it for the long haul?
Long-term conditions are likely to take centre stage as GPs get to grips with commissioning - but reforming care for patients with chronic diseases may require changes closer to home, says Alison Moore.
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HSJ KnowledgeGood call: why telehealth is so important to patients with long-term conditions
Telehealth will be one of the weapons in the armoury of the NHS as it deals with the increasing number of patients with long-term conditions. Alison Moore asks whether telehealth will be the next big thing and what the barriers are to wider use.
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SupplementsA new era for IT? A special HSJ supplement
The IT revolution has started. The way information is collected, and the technologies available to utilise it, is transforming previous approaches to healthcare. Now all clinicians have to do is embrace the change, and reap the rewards…
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SupplementsThe £80bn man: GPs get ready to hold the NHS budget
HSJ’s special supplement on GP commissioning looks at the challenges facing commissioners in the new NHS.
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News£252m underactivity bill sparks renewed calls for contract renegotiations
The NHS has paid £252m to private providers for work that was never carried out, leading to renewed calls for contracts to be renegotiated.
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NewsMidwife-led units threatened by falling birth rates
Standalone midwife-led centres are under threat from high costs and falling numbers of deliveries, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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NewsHalf of PCTs employing temporary executives
Almost half of primary care trusts have executive directors working in an “interim” or “acting” capacity, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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NewsShake-up opposed by Lansley gets green light
A controversial reconfiguration criticised by Andrew Lansley before he became health secretary has finally been given the go ahead.
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NewsYork PCT financial problems probed
A strategic health authority has launched an independent review into the finances of a cash-strapped primary care trust.