All Education/training articles – Page 19
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NewsIndustry can help design out human error, says safety tsar
The NHS must do more to prevent patient harm by working with industry to design out human error, according to the new national patient safety director.
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NewsTrusts expected to create new patient safety director role
All NHS trusts will be expected to appoint patient safety directors working at a senior level within a new national structure designed to deliver “uniformity” and help reduce patient harm.
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NewsNew mental health role labelled a 'nonsense sticking plaster'
Experts have questioned the decision to introduce a new mental health role in schools, rather than upskill the existing registered nurse workforce.
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NewsConsultants brought in to advise on overseas recruitment
The government has awarded a contract worth almost £100,000 to research how the UK can expand its healthcare education and training offer to overseas students.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Community or Primary Care Services Redesign (North/Midlands/East)
Conexus Healthcare – National consultancy and training programme on care navigation In West Wakefield, calling a GP surgery involves a conversation which goes far beyond exploring when a doctor might next be available. In 2014, the area pioneered the care navigator role – giving receptionists the skills and information to ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2018: Enhancing Care by Sharing Data and Information
Sherwood Forest Hospital Foundation Trust – Reasonable adjustments and more for patients with a learning disability Sponsored by When staff at Sherwood Forest Hospital FT compared primary care registers of people with known learning difficulties to the registers held by the trust, something became immediately clear: theirs contained ...
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Revealed: Junior doctor whistleblowing case cost NHS £700k
A whistleblower’s four year legal challenge cost the NHS nearly £700,000, it has emerged.
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HSJ LocalTrust in £100,000 court battle over alleged trademark breach
A mental health trust has been taken to court after being accused of breaching a trademark over its name for a specialist service.
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NewsExclusive: Public want new NHS money to go on cancer and staff, not digital
The public’s highest priorities for new NHS funding are cancer care and staffing, while their lowest are digital access and better services for vulnerable groups.
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NewsRCS: Outsourcing surgery damages training
The transfer of a “substantial volume” of NHS work to the independent sector has “negatively impacted” surgical trainees, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned.
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CommentWorkforce shortages are a greater challenge to the NHS than funding
Lack of skilled staff is already impacting access and quality of care, and without a shift in workforce policy the situation will worsen over the next decade, warn Anita Charlesworth, Candace Imison and Richard Murray
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HSJ Interactive
Empowering the frontline to lead transformation
Nitin Chaturvedi and Akshay Agarwal discuss how empowering clinicians to lead transformation efforts will create an NHS fit for the future
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NewsRegulators 'refuse to back' research investment at deficit trust
A London teaching hospital has found itself unable to “secure regulator support” for a new research institute because of its financial problems, a board report reveals.
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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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NewsNHS blocked from accessing apprenticeship levy funds
Government rules are blocking NHS trusts from accessing the apprenticeship levy funds, an NHS Improvement director has said.
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CommentThe chancellor got lucky this Budget but can that luck hold?
Anita Charlesworth notes that the chancellor narrowly avoided the impossible political choice of making good on the extra £20.5bn promised for the NHS with tax increases but the underlying reality remains unchanged
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CommentWhy Plymouth hospital is 'insourcing' an elective unit
University Hospitals Plymouth has announced a novel partnership with Care UK, for the independent provider to carry out a large amount of elective surgery. Ann James, Plymouth chief executive, and Jim Easton, of Care UK, explain the project.
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NewsRegulators missed chance to stop care scandal - report
Disjointed regulators failed to prevent a major patient safety failure over winter, a new report reveals.
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NewsDoubling the number of medical students is ‘not affordable’
Doubling the number of medical students is “not affordable”, the chief executive of Health Education England has said.
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NewsNHS to train nurses in using safe staffing tools
Senior nurses will be trained in how to use the Safer Nursing Care Tool to help tackle inconsistent safe staffing plans in the NHS.