All Innovation articles – Page 83
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HSJ KnowledgeHSJ Awards 2010: Acute and Primary Care Innovation
Take a look at last year’s winners to help you put together a winning entry
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NewsNHS Direct launches treatment decision aids
A trial project to provide patients with information to make better treatment decisions has been launched by NHS Direct.
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CommentMark Britnell on increasing NHS productivity
The new health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has already gone on public record to suggest that £15-20bn in efficiency savings may be needed.
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NewsNHS reputation is on a par with Iceland chain
The English NHS has a public reputation roughly on a par with frozen food retailer Iceland or the UK media sector, according to a unique analysis exclusively obtained by HSJ.
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NewsHow does your organisation approach innovation in IT?
HSJ is asking readers how their organisations approach such technologies and whether organisational policies arehelping or hindering NHS innovation.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve end of life care
The 2008 end of life care strategy allocated £286m to primary care trusts. Lynne Greenwood looks at some of the innovations and improvements being made with the cash
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HSJ KnowledgePatient safety: the human factors
‘Human factors’ can create gaps in systems that endanger patients. In the second part in our series Helen Mooney explains how self-knowledge is the first step to safer care
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CommentRichard Barker and Steve Smith: health and wealth are partners
The NHS and life sciences industry have already proven how well they can work together
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SupplementsNHS Evidence round table: stick to the facts
Using evidence to improve productivity and efficiency is not as straightforward as it might appear, as a round table of experts brought together to discuss the issue found. By Daloni Carlisle
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CommentNicky Spencer on NHS innovation
If innovation was only about generating big ideas, then things would not be so challenging. But the real expertise comes in seeing our radical ideas successfully implemented and the benefits realised.
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NewsNominate a product that is increasing efficiency and quality
HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has launched a series of awards to recognise and reward the products transforming patient care and helping healthcare professionals work efficiently.
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HSJ Knowledge
Technology in the NHS
Margaret Parton explains how NHS teams are often supportive of implementing technology while the wider system is not
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NewsPatient safety: minimum staff to patient ratios cut death rates
A major US study has added further weight to the argument that setting minimum nurse to patient ratios saves lives.
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HSJ Knowledge
Funding innovation
Dr Kathy McLean looks at how healthcare providers can make best use of the £220m innovation funding to improve working practices and deliver quality of patient care
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News'Trust' key to joint working between PCTs and pharma
Mutual trust and transparency is the key to successful joint working between primary care trusts and the pharmaceutical industry, according to a medical director who has worked for both sides.
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NewsPCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12
Primary care trusts in the East of England are planning on giving GP commissioners hard budgets next year, regardless of which party wins the election.
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LeaderAlternative providers: a good idea is a good idea, whoever had it
After three years editing HSJ I am still struck by the NHS’s antediluvian attitudes to the private and voluntary sectors. It does not want this mirror held in front of it.
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NewsNHS innovation: can the health service drive new ideas?
The NHS has grown used to a pattern of crisis followed by review followed by reform - yet many fundamentals remain little changed. Will the past keep shaping the NHS of the future or will the service explore different paths, asks Nigel Edwards
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NewsTreatment checklists cut deaths by 15pc
Treatment “checklists” have led to a 15 per cent reduction in patient deaths in three hospitals, research has shown.
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NewsDarzi warns against cutting clinical staff
Cutting clinical staff to save money in the recession would be “catastrophic” for the NHS, surgeon and former health minister Lord Darzi has warned.