All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 112
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NHS volunteering is all round value
Aintree is one of many trusts that both benefit from and give advantages to volunteers, reports Alison Moore
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HSJ KnowledgeDischarge notes: how to save time and reduce errors
The problem of delays in GPs receiving patients’ discharge details is being resolved across Cheshire through a shared electronic communications system
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Health politics
Politicians who get tangled up with healthcare usually end up regretting it. Ask Barack Obama. One day you have this dream of bringing medical coverage to 30 million of your unprotected fellow citizens. A year of drift, squabble and dodgy compromise later and your party is booted out in Massachusetts, ...
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Life Coaching
Here is how to coach managers into positive thinking, says Edna Crosby
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NHS asset management
Karen Conneely outlines the need for a single integrated asset register.
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Lean in radiology
Using lean to make an ongoing difference, achieve targets and improve staff morale
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HSJ KnowledgeTransforming community services for people with long term conditions
Community healthcare is widening the focus from just a patient’s condition to their whole life, says Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ KnowledgeLeadership: commitment beats control
Leaders will get better results through engaging staff than by presiding over a command culture, say Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and Juliette Alban-Metcalfe
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use NICE guidance to improve commissioning
Helpful guidance now explains how to make the best use of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommendations. In the first in a three part series Jennifer Taylor looks at how it is helping to improve commissioning
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HSJ KnowledgeTake action to ensure NHS data security
High profile data losses have led to tighter sanctions, which will affect NHS organisations, says Simon Charlton
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Wikinomics
This book shows how online interaction boosts business, says Samantha Allen
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HSJ KnowledgeTransforming community services: handover heralds a flexible future
Transferring community services to a foundation trust allows one PCT to focus on choice, say Jamie Foster and Jane Gateley
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HSJ KnowledgeSelf belief: give yourself some credit
Believing in yourself is essential to successful performance and has two components - self-esteem and self-confidence, says Adrian Moorhouse
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HSJ KnowledgeTotal Place: how partnerships can maximise resources
In the final part in our series on Total Place, Helen Mooney looks at how Birmingham’s Total Place pilot is focused on cutting through organisational boundaries and slashing waste while delivering better services
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HSJ KnowledgeCareer feedback - developing self awareness
If you are applying for posts do not be afraid to ask how you influenced the final decision - whether you get the job or not, says Diane Charnock
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COPD awareness
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the UK’s fifth biggest killer, each year causing more deaths than breast, prostate and bowel cancer. However, 2.8 million people are undiagnosed and unaware they have the progressive, possibly terminal disease.
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Community rehabilitation
Chase Park Rehabilitation Centre was developed in response to the needs of clients with slow stream community rehabilitation and complex care requirements.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The 80 Minute MBA
Be a master of business administration in less than the length of a train journey
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HSJ KnowledgePublic health: Birmingham gets fit with a purpose
An HSJ Award winning scheme is out to discover how much fitter a whole city can become. Stuart Shepherd reports
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HSJ KnowledgeTotal Place: why working together boosts independence
Offender management in Luton and Central Bedfordshire is cumbersome and costly. In the second article in our series on Total Place, Helen Mooney looks at how the NHS, local government and agencies are using the scheme to tackle this