All Innovation articles – Page 87
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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.
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CommentChris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation
Labour’s tenure has seen massive progress in areas including access to services and cardiac and cancer care. But the greatest changes must now follow fast - things can only get different
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HSJ PartnersInnovation - harnessing the power of communities
Charles Leadbeater is the co-founder of Participle, which innovates new approaches to public services.
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NewsNHS market reforms are not linked with better care
The introduction of competition to the NHS cannot be shown to have improved the health service, and may have produced extra costs.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Crossing the Chasm
You can surmount resistance to change, say Jonathan Bloor and Edward Miles
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CommentMark Britnell on the future of Agenda for Change
Agenda for Change does not need to be scrapped and renegotiated - just applied properly
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NewsNHS needs 'business model' change, says former Brown adviser
The NHS needs to change its “business model” to survive investment cuts, Gordon Brown’s former adviser on public service transformation has said.
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NewsNHS Confed challenges construction industry to innovate
The NHS Confederation has challenged the construction industry to create a new generation of affordable, flexible primary care facilities.
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NewsMaking safety a board priority is a winning move
HSJ is delighted to announce that Ann Farrar and colleagues from Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust and Phao Hewitson and colleagues from Walsall Hospitals Trust are the joint winners of the HSJ and Nursing Times Patient Safety Award for Board Leadership.
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NewsHome care ‘could save NHS more than £1bn a year’
The health service could save more than £1bn each year by increasing the number of patients it treats at home rather than in hospital, according to a report seen by HSJ.
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HSJ PartnersThe quality & productivity innovation challenge – getting over ourselves
In the first of a year-long series on healthcare innovation, NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, Jim Easton, explains why innovation is so important to the future of the NHS.
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HSJ PartnersAn introduction to First Thursday
I am delighted to introduce this year-long series of articles about innovation from leading thinkers and practitioners around the world.
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NewsCall to address £23bn cost of dementia
Dementia costs the country £23bn a year - more than cancer and heart disease combined - but receives a fraction of the funding, according to a “wake up call” report.
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NewsDH to expand integrated care pilots through 'good will'
The Department of Health is looking to expand its integrated care pilot scheme by “harnessing good will”.
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NewsElder care pilot slashes hospital admissions
A pilot programme for improving care of older patients has slashed hospital overnight stays and accident and emergency attendances, and produced significant financial savings.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy innovation means survival in the NHS
Innovating is an evolutionary process with trials and errors - bit it is vital in financially hard times, says Becky Malby