All Education/training articles – Page 23
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of NHS Support Services
Winner Lancashire Care Foundation Trust: Improving value and patient safety through the creation of a team of specialised serious incident investigators Lancashire Care FT set up an investigations and learning team, in response to concerns that the trust was not effectively learning from serious incidents. This central team now undertakes ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of Diagnostic Services
Winner St Bartholomew’s Hospital – Department of Cardiac Imaging: Making MRI available for cardiac pacemaker patients Nearly half a million people in England have a cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator. Each of these patients has a 75 per cent lifetime chance of needing an MRI scan but often have difficulty accessing ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of Primary Care Services
Winner West Wakefield Health & Wellbeing: Care Navigation national consultancy & training programme Sponsored by West Wakefield Health and Wellbeing trained 277 receptionists as care navigators who support patients by signposting them to alternative healthcare professionals and services in their area, such as pharmacies. This programme was developed ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving Value in the Care of Frail Older Patients
Winner Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group and Walsall Healthcare Trust: Enhanced Health Care Model for Nursing Homes Data showed that nursing homes admissions to accident and emergency in the Walsall area usually involved the ambulance service being called and 90 per cent of these admissions were due to five reasons – ...
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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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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: The Use of Information Technology to Drive Value in Clinical Services
Winner Imperial College Healthcare Trust – Department of Neonatology: Integrated Family Delivered Care Project (IFDC) Parents with premature or unwell babies can have very little involvement in caring for their babies while they are in a neonatal unit. Imperial College Healthcare Trust devised a programme to help ...
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Expert BriefingHow £250m of capital funding slipped away
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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HSJ LocalChair steps down at special measures trust
The chair of an acute trust in special measures has announced he will step down at the end of this month.
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HSJ LocalNew academy to recruit nurses with 'exceptional academic ability'
A nursing academy designed to attract and retain students with “exceptional academic ability” to improve patient safety is being launched at Exeter University in collaboration with local NHS trusts.
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NewsGovernment could scrap 'NHS England ringfence' in long term plan
Ministers could scrap the “ringfence” around the NHS England budget to include other arm’s length bodies as part of the government’s long term funding plan, HSJ has been told.
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CommentKarin Smyth: Do away with tax benefits for wholly owned companies
Wholly owned companies drive a further fragmentation of the NHS and ignore the strategic drive towards partnership and cooperation across systems, opines Karin Smyth
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NewsPrivate hospital group criticised for governance failures
A private hospital group has been told it must improve its corporate governance after a number of its sites were criticised in a leadership review by the Care Quality Commission.
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CommentBrexit: Crucial to get the right workforce solution
If the government gets the workforce solution on the road to Brexit wrong and there are shortfalls in health and social care recruitment from EU countries, serious action such as increasing pay levels to make jobs in the sector more desirable to UK workers and increasing immigration from other countries ...
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News'Golden hellos' offered to postgrad nurses to fill staffing gaps
Some postgraduate nurses will be offered £10,000 by the government to tackle staff shortages in specific areas of nursing.
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CommentMaking demand and capacity planning more robust
Paul Stroner gives an update on a programme by NHS England and NHS Improvement that aims to improve demand and capacity modelling in elective care
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NewsStaff fear speaking up over child abuse in NHS
Unwillingness to challenge senior staff and fears over how managers respond is stopping NHS staff raising concerns about child abuse perpetrated out by their colleagues, a public inquiry has been told.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: How to spend it best: theft, teaching and toxin-taming
Andy Cowper discusses three themes of theft, teaching and toxin-taming that should inform the NHS turnaround strategy
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CommentIncrease the provision of perinatal mental health services to train psychiatrists
We need each generation of perinatal psychiatrists to lead the development of the next and wider teams to be knowledgeable about the issues, risks and care of all women of childbearing potential, writes Dr Liz McDonald
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Royal college revalidation advice 'not consistent' with GMC
A review into medical workforce revalidation has questioned the role of royal colleges and suggested the need for new specialty specific guidance.
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CommentVolunteering - a game changer in healthcare
If we unlock the full potential of volunteers in the NHS, we could embed a culture where hospitals and communities work more closely together. By Paddy Hanrahan