All HSJ Knowledge articles – Page 125
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Fly on the wall tool
Health and social care are labour-intensive service industries which are currently facing enormous change. Achieving staff engagement, excellent leadership and clinically focused organisations, particularly when 1.3 million NHS staff members are involved, calls for some radical rethinking of about how individuals learn and may achieve change in their working practices.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Learn here about the biology of feeling under pressure, says David Lewis
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HSJ KnowledgePCT commissioners' fertility conference video archive
Is wishing to start a family a medical need or lifestyle choice? This is just one of the questions facing commissioners.
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HSJ KnowledgeIs PFI funding built to last?
Backing for building projects is proving hard to come by, with high borrowing rates and comatose bond markets.Steve Wright considers how to fund your estate upgrade
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HSJ KnowledgeWays to buy in to the lung cancer strategy
To maintain momentum in fighting lung cancer, commissioners must be thinking about awareness services and multidisciplinary teams, reports Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeSnakes on the make: do you work with a psychopath?
Is your organisation harbouring a psychopath? These people can be found among those impressive but ruthless types who cut a swathe to the jobs at the top. Jenny Rogers explains how to spot them
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HSJ KnowledgeGet a load of me: the biobank boom takes shape
The UK Biobank was sold as being a far reaching study into the world of genetics, but how will its potential for altruism fare against its potential for commercialism?
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: The Tipping Point - How little things can make a big difference
Discover why behavioural change can be infectious
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to take a whole family approach to mental health
The latest guidance on treating parents with mental health problems suggests a whole family approach is the surest way to improve care and end stigma
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS must look after its hidden workers
Carers play a central role in many healthcare users’ lives. Although services are recognising that they must be valued and supported, there is much more to be done to ensure this unpaid workforce’s wellbeing
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Safety walkrounds
Royal Brompton and Harefield foundation trust’s first organisational value is: “We believe our patients deserve the best possible specialist treatment for their heart and lung condition in a clean, safe place.” To promote this idea of safety as a priority, the trust signed up to Patient Safety First in ...
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NHS marketing
In Hounslow a focused marketing campaign has helped ensure strong take-up rates of services at the area’s polyclinic.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe tension between religion and healthcare
When the religious beliefs of an NHS employee run contrary to trust policy, the result is often headline grabbing conflict. Louise Hunt looks at a modern day dilemma
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Nudge - Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness
This book promotes choice not coercion for social marketing
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to use an ASBO to prevent bad behaviour
Employees should not work in fear. NHS organisations can apply for a controlling order against threatening members of the public, advise Judith Sharratt and Gemma Brannigan
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HSJ KnowledgeParatroopers mark D-Day in war on childhood obesity
Drafting in paratroopers to show overweight children that exercise is fun is just one novel initiative that has had results.
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HSJ KnowledgePowerful chemistry: PCTs under fire for not aiding pharmacy growth
Pharmacists have the potential to deliver a far wider range of services than at present - but the opportunity will be missed if primary care trusts do not act, writes Graham Clews
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Reckoning with Risk
We can all get to grips with statistics when they are presented properly
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HSJ KnowledgeSmoking cessation: how clinicians can break the habit
GPs and nurses who treat smoking as a clinical dependence and not just a lifestyle choice are more effective in referring people to cessation services.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhistleblowers in the NHS: keep in tune with the law
When staff raise concerns about what is happening in their workplace, managers should not respond with a kneejerk threat of dismissal. Have a whistleblowing policy in place and be sure of all the facts, advises Jane Hobson