All Change management articles – Page 18
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Comment'Local healthcare cannot be delivered by giant commissioning bodies'
The key to healthcare delivery models lies within natural communities – not in bloated commissioning organisations, says Charles Alessi.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to deliver a successful and sustainable hospital transformation
How do you deliver long term transformational change at your hospital when the immediate concern is short term cost improvement? McKinsey senior expert Neil Griffiths has some ideas.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?
Social enterprises are starting to find that the odds are not in their favour in a cut-throat market, which could make for a bleak picture in a decade’s time, says Noel Plumridge.
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NewsMost senior leaders failing to create 'strong work climates'
Three quarters of the most senior NHS leaders are “not creating strong work climates”, according to an analysis seen by HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping leadership by managing unconscious behaviour
Improving leadership within an organisation through identifying our subconscious behaviour can galvanise a workforce and deliver better performance, write Nicholas Bradbury and Barbara Moyes.
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Comment'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook review: How to have Creative Ideas
NHS Trafford service reform lead Hannah Lowry reviews How to Have Creative Ideas by Edward de Bono, and asks whether it can help the NHS develop new solutions to old problems.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow service line management can inspire improved behaviours throughout NHS organisations
Service line management can empower frontline clinicians to make the changes the NHS needs for future viability. The big challenge is changing the way NHS organisations are managed, says Chris Calkin.
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Comment'Make change a mantra, and lead the patient centered revolution'
Traditional financial incentives have led to behaviours that serve the interests of organisations, not those of patients. It’s time to lead a revolution for change, and make healthcare a patient centered
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HSJ KnowledgeThe critical need to evaluate and improve back office functions
The health reforms have ushered in a difficult period for health service providers to deliver improving services, but just as challenging is the crucial reorganisation required to improve the back office functions that support frontline services. Claire MacConnell explains.
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NewsLondon NHS strategy has 'no clear lead'
The NHS in London faces a “strategic vacuum” with no clear lead to drive through change, The King’s Fund has said.
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NewsFarrar: innovation needs 'management culture' shift
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar has called for more tolerance of risk taking among NHS leaders to encourage innovation.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to reduce future risk by recycling past value
Remembering what we know is both good risk management and helps maximise benefits from past investments, especially in this period of transformation, writes Andy Ward.
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HSJ KnowledgeTrust me, I'm a leader: creating a climate for higher performance
Managers will need to build a culture of mutual ownership and trust, rather than leading from the front, to affect the breadth of change to combat the cold economic front sweeping across the NHS, say John Drew and Helen Bevan.
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HSJ KnowledgeHealthcare without wires: the next generation of technology for health organisations
The use of wireless technology in healthcare looks set to become the norm. Dominic List looks at the benefits for organisations ready to adopt the new generation of technology.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy resilience is key to leadership in a changed NHS
Leadership styles from the times of plenty must give way to new approaches, say Jeanne Hardacre and Jane Keep from The Centre for Innovation in Health Management.
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NewsClusters ordered to begin stocktake of 75,000 service contracts
Primary care trust clusters will have to complete a detailed stocktake of their 75,000 service contracts by the end of March 2012, in preparation for transferring them to successor commissioning bodies the following year.
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SupplementsNew ways of working: an HSJ report on Leadership and Workforce
What are the new skills that will be required of managers, leaders and the frontline workforce post-reform?
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Comment'A new procurement model could fall foul of inertia'
Despite talk of opening up NHS procurement, the same old system looks unlikely to be phased out just yet, writes Noel Plumridge.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow scenario planning can inspire creative approaches to innovation
Supporting and organising efforts to create and use innovative technologies is more difficult than ever but a recently developed set of future scenarios may help spur some creative planning, write Clive Savory, Joyce Fortune and Geoff Peters.