All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 75
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CommentSophia Christie on getting the best from GPs
Successive governments have attempted to engage primary care in commissioning in recognition of the sector’s vital role in demand management.
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CommentC difficile lessons: getting to the bottom of complex health problems
Are there lessons from the C difficile experience with wider health policy implications, ask Annalijn Conklin, Sharif Ismail and Tom Ling
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NewsDoncaster hospital trust begins search for medical director
A Yorkshire hospital has started its search for a new medical director after announcing the current director will retire in 2010.
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NewsBoost for Scottish telehealth
More patients in Scotland could soon have the chance to conference with their GPs via a webcam after the announcement of new plans to integrate NHS 24 with the Scottish Centre for Telehealth.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhen doctors network change can happen fast
Easy online access to shared information and peer discussion is proving a prime mover in engaging clinicians with quality assessment and transforming services
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NewsTraining blamed for hospital deaths
Death rates in hospitals are more to do with poorly trained medical staff than complications from major surgery, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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NewsMedical negligence proposals would force managers to confess
NHS managers could be made to confess and apologise if patients are harmed due to medical negligence.
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NewsFT warning over competition panel ruling on consultants
Foundation trusts have warned most decisions on allowing consultants to work for other providers will need to be decided individually, despite a co-operation and competition panel ruling last week that attempts to prevent such work were anti-competitive and undermined patient choice.
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NewsGordon Brown pledges to 'beat cancer in this generation'
Prime minister Gordon Brown has pledged to “beat cancer in this generation”.
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CommentThe four hour A&E target: an accident waiting to happen?
While many have commended the government’s achievement of the promised four hour waiting target in accident and emergency, there are still concerns over whether this comes at the expense of quality and patient care
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NewsHospital changes prescription practices after chemotherapy overdose
A Bristol hospital has announced a range of “robust” changes to its prescription practices after a consultant killed a patient by accidentally administering a chemotherapy dose four times higher than the recommended limit.
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NewsDoctors 'can inform on patients' - GMC
NHS doctors can break patient confidentiality by reporting knife injuries to the police, according to new General Medical Council guidelines.
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NewsNurses urged to show savings
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is to calculate and publish “opportunity savings” in 10 changes to the way nurses work.
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NewsNHS competition panel rejects limit on consultants’ work outside their contracts
The co-operation and competition panel has said that restrictions on consultants working for other providers during their non-contractive hours are anti-competitive and against NHS principles.
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CommentGary Belfield on world class commissioning
World class commissioning is not a status to be achieved and retained but an ongoing process of improvement which has patients’ changing needs at its heart
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NewsSurgery productivity tool could save trusts £1.6m a year
Trusts could save over £1.5m a year by implementing a programme that encourages operating theatre staff to work more productively.
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News'Mortality rates rise when new doctors start work'
Death rates for emergency patients jump 6 per cent when newly qualified doctors start work, according to the largest ever study of hospital mortality rates.
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HSJ KnowledgeImproving relationships between NHS managers and clinicians
Clinicians and managers must build better working relationships, but to do this their priorities must first be reconciled, write Pauline Owen and Colin Gautrey
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NewsPrivate Mid Staffs inquiry criticised
A closed-doors inquiry into the “shocking” number of deaths at Stafford Hospital has been criticised before it has been held.
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HSJ KnowledgePatient safety: how to connect with its human side
Training, systems and process design help all health team members prioritise safe patient care, says Stuart Shepherd