All Facilities management articles – Page 34
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SupplementsDivide and conquer: how patient segmentation can beat inequality
Tackling health inequalities is one of the most complex and important tasks facing the healthcare system today.
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HSJ Knowledge
Carbon reduction
Increasing hospital efficiencies is a pressing issue for trusts. In 2008, the Government passed the Climate Change Act, which aims to achieve an 80 per cent cut in CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2050.
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CommentDavid Peat on embracing NHS change
Attitudes to the idea of change have always fascinated me. And I suppose I’m revisiting the concept since I’m on the verge of changing my own role in the NHS by moving on to take up a new post at strategic health authority level.
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HSJ KnowledgeFacilities: Patient safety by accident or design
Improving building elements such as layout, lighting and signage can make a huge difference to avoiding accidents such as slips, trips and falls. Louise Hunt reports
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Comment
Andrew Craggs on safe thinking
Imagine a patient who falls in a pothole on his way to a clinic on the main footpath. He sustains severe head injuries and subsequently dies.
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HSJ KnowledgeFacilities: Implementing the NHS carbon reduction strategy
The Climate Change Act has set some tough targets for cleaning up the environment. The NHS carbon reduction strategy should help trusts to achieve it. Stuart Shepherd explains
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NewsEccleshill to stay in Care Quality Commission’s spotlight
An independent treatment centre has been warned the Care Quality Commission will continue “to cast a very bright light” on its services to ensure it continues to improve.
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NewsNHS asset sales are unlikely to meet Treasury expectations
The NHS will struggle to provide the Treasury with its expected windfall from asset sales, Department of Health data shows.
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Surgicentre contract signed after six years
An independent treatment centre that will treat up to 15,000 NHS patients a year has been given the go-ahead - six years after it was first proposed.
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NewsPressure on to outsource NHS back offices
NHS organisations will come under pressure over the next year to outsource their back offices and make savings in the region of 20-30 per cent, yesterday’s Treasury report on efficiency suggests.
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New unit to squeeze efficiencies from public sector
A new Whitehall unit should be set up to squeeze efficiencies out of the public sector property portfolio, Lord Carter’s review has recommended.
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Fears grow over capital for NHS schemes
There are growing concerns about the availability of capital funding for NHS schemes.
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News
NHS Confederation outlines principles for fair car parking fees
A cancer charity has slammed the NHS Confederation’s position on hospital car parking fees as “morally wrong”.
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Accountancy change means LIFT schemes could be squeezed
The Audit Commission has ruled that most primary care buildings funded by private finance initiative-style schemes, worth £1.34bn in total, should be moved onto NHS balance sheets this April.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeliver dignity with single sex wards
With the health secretary effectively fining hospitals that are still using mixed sex wards from 2010, action is needed now to segregate patients says Daloni Carlisle
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SupplementsProCure21: better buildings
The NHS has in recent years undertaken the largest hospital building programme in its history.
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News
C difficile outbreak leaves three hospital patients dead
Three patients have died as a direct result of a C difficile outbreak at hospital in the South East.
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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LeaderNo excuses in this new era of regulation
With the Care Quality Commission going live next Wednesday, the Healthcare Commission has published a swathe of reports before its demise.
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News
Mid Staffs was 'off SHA radar'
Cynthia Bower has hit back at criticism that she could have done more to prevent problems at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust in her former role as chief executive of NHS West Midlands.