All Innovation articles – Page 77
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SupplementsIs telehealth the future? An HSJ special supplement
This special supplement looks at telehealth case studies, the benefits telehealth could bring for patients and clinicians, and the skills health leaders need to implement successful technology programs.
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CommentNick Seddon: healthcare reform's new dawn
Radical thinking from radical people is the only way forward if the health service is to thrive, says Nick Seddon.
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HSJ Local
South Warwickshire set 'challenging' £10m QIPP target
FINANCE: South Warwickshire Foundation Trust has been set a “challenging” efficiency target of £10m for 2012-13.
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Comment
Ali Parsa on great mistakes
I started my career as an academic. My research objective: to come up with a fluid dynamic formula to predict the complex interaction of waves and currents in turbulent flows.
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Comment
John Appleby on risking failure
In his book Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford retells a moving and excellent story about Archie Cochrane’s efforts to conduct a clinical trial in a German internment camp.
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Comment'Failure is necessary to breed success'
In his book Adapt, economist and journalist Tim Harford argues that failure is a necessary stage in success, and that experimentation and risk-taking are more effective than an overarching grand plan. Jennifer Taylor explores how these ideas could be translated to the NHS.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to cut overnight stays and improve trauma pathways
The unpredictable nature of trauma injuries has led one trust to call for an innovative approach to managing their surgical treatment. John Lloyd and colleagues explain how to cut overnight stays.
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HSJ KnowledgeEmbracing new technologies can drive innovation in healthcare services
New technologies and the benefits they could bring to the NHS are being held back by a reluctance in the service to commit to embracing such innovations. This must change, argues Neil Moat.
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HSJ Local
Commuter influx sees NHS Westminster selected to pilot GP choice scheme
PERFORMANCE: The central London borough of Westminster is one of the pilot PCTs in a scheme to allow patients to choose their GP practice.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy reconfiguration remains a difficult balance between commissioners and providers
The judicial process that saw a public consultation on children’s congenital heart services quashed following the Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust’s legal challenge has lessons for future NHS consultations, says David Mason.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy engaging the workforce helps enhance service innovation
To fully capture and stimulate NHS service innovation, Academic Health and Social Care Networks must go beyond striving to bring remote research into practice and include a focus on workforce innovation. Laurence Benson explains.
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HSJ Knowledge
The benefits of delivering healthcare in patients' homes
Taking patients out of the hospital and successfully providing their care at home is certainly achievable, and Mehmood Syed looks at steps commissioners and providers can take to ensure home is where the health is.
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CommentAndrew Lansley: competition is critical for NHS reform
The section of the Health Bill which seeks to increase competition within the NHS is the focus of the growing row over the legislation. Here, in an exclusive article, a defiant health secretary Andrew Lansley champions the importance of competition.
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NewsNHS manager launches care home rating website
An NHS manager hopes to improve national care standards by launching what she says is the first live, independent ratings website for care homes.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a 'bottom-up' approach to innovation is making service improvements easier
Adopting a bottom-up approach to driving clinical improvements in a traditionally top-down health service is making a significant difference to the collaborative projects being run in north west London by the National Institute for Health Research, writes Ganesh Sathyamoorthy.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to make change management a driver of quality care
Delivering an improved level of quality in patient care through change management is certainly achievable, but the vision and the process must be visible and understood at all levels of your organisation, say Marie-Clare Mendham and Seraphim Patel.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy taking a national approach could kick-start technology adoption in the NHS
High costs, complex planning and ‘pilot-itis’ are all common hurdles to technology adoption. Sally Chisholm argues a coordinated national approach could help overcome them.
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HSJ Knowledge
How implementing digital dictation encouraged one trust to review its service provision
One trusts move to digital dictation from an outdated process not only improved efficiencies in that area, but also allowed them to review other services in order to drive new process efficiencies throughout the hospital. Gunther Empl explains.
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Comment'Don't rush through regulation at the expense of innovation'
The PIP breast implant scandal has raised difficult questions for trusts and clinicians about the faith they place in the reliability of medical devices they use.