All Change management articles – Page 25
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CommentYour Humble Servant: home front
‘We’re invading your privacy at home, and turning it into the outpatient clinic’
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CommentNHS efficiency savings could get a rough ride
What is the difference between a cut and an efficiency saving? And will patients be able to tell the difference?
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HSJ KnowledgeRenegotiating NHS contracts: how to avoid the pitfalls
Renegotiating or exiting NHS contracts may seem an obvious way to make savings but the process must be approached with caution, advises Robert McGough
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NewsNHS London volunteers external oversight in 'Lansley tests' over reconfiguration plans
NHS London could lose its responsibility for applying the four tests Andrew Lansley has ordered all hospital reconfiguration plans to meet.
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CommentCompetition could change the face of healthcare
Competition could change the health landscape in the same way it did with gas, electricity and telecoms
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HSJ KnowledgeA social plan to ease NHS savings pain
The Canadian approach in the 1990s to making society-wide budget reductions has some highly relevant lessons for an NHS facing spending constraints now, says Phil Kenmore
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CommentMark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?
Australian interest in foundation trusts has thrown their achievements into stark relief
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CommentThe right way to form GP consortia
GP commissioning consortia will not be created by guidance notes from the Department of Health. Nor will they be formed by primary care trusts and strategic health authorities suggesting the necessary population size for efficient commissioning.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to retain talented staff
As the cuts make everyone’s job feel harder, roleplay workshops can help managers make staff feel valued
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CommentTeam survival in troubled times
In the NHS’s rush to do more with less there is an inevitable temptation to merge teams, or broaden the remit of existing teams. If clarity of aims - the core requirement for effective team working - is sacrificed, inefficiencies result.
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NewsGovernment urged to plan for ageing population
A charity has urged the government to plan for the “significant challenges” of funding an ageing population as new figures showed more people than ever are celebrating their 100th birthday.
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HSJ Knowledge
Lean strategy in the NHS
With growing financial pressures in health care, successful efforts to improve operational efficiency are becoming increasingly important. We present seven critical success factors in the successful implementation of lean in health care, identified through a review of the literature and two case studies. Consideration of these critical success factors may ...
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Comment'I am now chairing the Andrew Lansley Action Squad'
‘As you can imagine it’s a busy time with new directives coming thick and slow. The team members have become adept at scratching their heads, then armpits and finally groins as they try to work out how to operationalise the sophisticated actions that arise from the no top-down reorganisation reorganisation ...
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CommentPublic health needs a long vigil
Public health must be protected from short term raids on its funding by acute services
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to identify people with the skills and abilities you need
Implementing the best people strategy is tricky at the best of times, let alone in the current climate. But there are opportunities for those willing to plan ahead
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NewsGovernment warned over rate of job losses
The government has been urged to approach spending cuts like a middle-distance runner rather than a sprinter, making sure that most public sector job cuts take effect after 2013.
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CommentJon Restell on why managers are worth it
“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” But words can hurt - words can burn like acid.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Putting Patients Last
Here is how to avoid courting failure in NHS business, says Rachael Rowe
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NewsLondon in talks over PCT mergers
NHS London and the Department of Health are in talks about merging London’s 31 primary care trusts into just six bodies, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has paved the way for primary care trusts to be merged as a means to make significant savings while implementing the health white paper.