All Diabetes articles – Page 3
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Improving the value of diagnostic services award
Winner University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust: The scarred liver project The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust have developed a new diagnostic pathway to identify patients with chronic liver disease. Those with risk factors – hazardous alcohol use and/or type 2 diabetes – are invited ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Diabetes care initiative of the year
Winner Barking and Dagenham Clinical Commissioning Group: Tackling inequalities in diabetes care in Barking and Dagenham – local improvement scheme The 37 practices in Barking and Dagenham CCG have improved their care of diabetic patients with 67.2 per cent of patients receiving the eight care processes recommended by National Institute ...
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HSJ AwardsWinners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2019
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2019 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
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HSJ InteractiveRoundtable: Tackling rising cases of long-term conditions
An HSJ and Roche roundtable looked at how integrated care can drive a population management approach to long-term conditions
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: 200 more male nurses? A drop in the ocean
Staffing is the issue most often keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to both the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and ...
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CommentNew QOF will improve quality of diabetes care
The new QOF will mitigate previous concerns about it encouraging mismanagement of complex patients and its retention will aid practices’ business continuity. By Robin Hewings
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CommentLocal organisations can help implement the long-term plan
Alex Lohman explains how local healthcare organisations and charities with expertise in managing specific health conditions – like sight loss and how to avoid it – can help meet the goals of the long-term plan
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NewsAnger as NHS England accused of public health 'land grab'
NHS England has been accused of a “crude” attempt to engineer a “land grab” after its NHS long-term plan suggested a diminished role for local government in public health.
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CommentWill the NHS long-term plan actually change health inequalities for BAME communities?
Dr Melrose Stewart writes that the NHS long-term plan is far from revolutionary when it comes to addressing healthcare inequalities
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CommentThe prevention agenda can tackle devastating diseases
The health and social care secretary’s prevention vision could, if given the backing it needs, really change the odds for people affected by heart and circulatory disease. By Simon Gillespie
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CommentDiabetes: Helping hospitals learn from each other
Emily Watts outlines the recommendations of a new report on how hospital stays can be made safer for people living with diabetes and explains how hospitals that have adopted the recommendations are benefitting
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What the long term NHS plan will - and won't - do for integration
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping policy, providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Target inequalities, invest in general practice
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping policy, providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentThe NHS at 70: same, same but different?
Looking at a broad range of data, new health trends have emerged over the past seven decades leading to changing patient demands and fluctuating satisfaction levels with the NHS, notes Gillian Prior
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CommentA new deal with the public
It’s time to revisit what people can expect from the NHS and what their obligations are in return, writes Chris Ham
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CommentClose the gaping gap between policy and people’s lived reality
What does the 10 year plan, now being worked up by the NHS, need to contain to bridge the distance between policy and the lived reality of people using services, wonders Charlotte Augst
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NewsWinners revealed for HSJ Value Awards 2018
Twenty organisations have been honoured in the 2018 HSJ Value Awards – which recognise and celebrate outstanding improvements in care quality and efficiency made by NHS staff.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving Value Through Better Diabetes Care
Winner North West London Collaboration of CCGs: NW London diabetes transformation programme The project aimed to improve outcomes for diabetics in the community by reducing variation in the care they received. GP networks received performance related payments according to whether they meet certain quality indicators, including meeting the percentage of ...
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CommentA new funding settlement needs to put the NHS in everyone’s pocket
Smart use of funding can help people to benefit from digital innovations in health and care
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CommentEqually Well UK: bridging the divide between mental and physical health
The Equally Well UK initiative aims to improve the physical health of people living with mental illness through collaborations with organisations across the health system, says Andy Bell