All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 109
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing clinicians for leadership
Lord Darzi's review of the NHS emphasises medical leadership as one of the keys to driving up quality in the health service. Oliver Warren describes one programme that is helping to make this a reality
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Comment
Linda Havard on unlocking clinical leadership
Lord Darzi's next stage review focuses on the importance of healthcare delivery, but at the expense of the details. Are local authorities up to the challenge of meeting the review's grand vision?
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on healthy competition
The right sort of competition in healthcare is a prescription for huge gains in quality and efficiency. But while this can be encouraged partly through attractive incentives, have we been too lenient in pursuing more punitive measures?
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News
Managers losing sleep as 48-hour week nears
The clock is ticking on the European working time directive, with only a year until junior doctors’ hours are cut. Alison Moore asks if trusts are ready to make the change
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HSJ Knowledge
Devolved power flows through Darzi's vision
The next stage review's warm reception was testament to the staff and patient engagement that informed it. Now, says NHS chief executive David Nicholson, that local ownership will energise its implementation
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News
Minority staff get worse deal on jobs, pay and grievances
Widespread disadvantages faced by black and minority ethnic NHS staff have been laid bare in a stark analysis of recruitment, bullying, grievance and disciplinary rates.
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Leader
Management must do more to ensure the NHS is free of racism
Apart from legal and moral obligations to its own staff, there is an even more powerful reason why the NHS needs to be sure it is free of discrimination.
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News
London trusts join forces in research venture
University College London and four trusts in the capital are founding Europe's largest academic health science partnership.
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Comment
Simon Bird on whether clinicians are always the best leaders
It seems rather counter-cultural right now to question the drive for clinicians to take up leadership positions. However, the assumptions behind the drive, while compelling and applicable to some, should not be extrapolated across whole professions.
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Peter Reader on integrating healthcare
Lord Darzi's next stage review contains the seeds of potentially the greatest revolution the NHS has seen since it was formed - a commitment to seek expressions of interest to run 'integrated care pilots'.
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Steve Onyett on medical leadership
The Darzi review has shed new light on the challenge of letting go of central control. The idea that staff can be clinicians, partners and leaders is an engaging way of conveying that leadership needs to be widely dispersed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Delivering Darzi's vision for primary prevention
Knowsley PCT's public health practitioner model shows how GPs can become champions of prevention in primary care and deliver on Lord Darzi's public health promise. Matt Kearney explains
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News
Trusts in the dark on their role in medics' regulation
Trusts are still unclear about their role in doctors' revalidation, 10 years after the idea was first mooted.
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Leader
Workforce strategy should be driven by trusts, not regions
Among the wild cheering that accompanied most of Lord Darzi’s next stage review plans, there was a markedly more muted response to the workforce strategy.
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News
SHAs and trusts lock horns over future shape of workforce
The government’s NHS workforce strategy is sidelining trusts and fuelling rows with strategic health authorities, managers have told HSJ.Health minister Lord Darzi’s next stage review is being criticised for granting SHAs extra workforce planning powers and saying little about non-clinical managers.
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality and value push is paying off
The NHS Better Care, Better Value indicators are designed to help organisations spot opportunities for improving productivity and efficiency.
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News
No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths
No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...
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Comment
John Coakley on improving the patient experience
How can we improve customer care in the NHS? It is obviously important to seek the views of users of the service, its staff and the general public.
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Julia Riley on care of the dying
The Department of Health's end of life care strategy published earlier this month pledged to allow more people with terminal illnesses to choose where they die. Clinicians at the Royal Marsden have made this possible through a pilot scheme
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Counter Fraud Service: watching the detectives
The NHS loses tens of millions of pounds a year to cheating, but some observers are asking if the Counter Fraud Service is getting too tough. Helen Mooney reports