All articles by Jennifer Taylor – Page 3
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HSJ Knowledge
How 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 Partners
How to use business intelligence to guide decision making
Business intelligence transforms consumers of information into analysts, who can drill into data and understand it. Such information has become an increasingly important commodity in an NHS environment of tightening finances alongside a drive for efficient, high quality services and balanced budgets.Clinicians and managers at the operational level need to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
A quality shift in staff rostering
Software that allocates staff safely and appropriately while helping to meet their shift preferences is also helping to save trusts’ money. Jennifer Taylor logs on
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HSJ Knowledge
What mental health service users want
Enabling mental health service users to communicate their views and direct their care requires a variety of routes, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
How to plan for cold weather with a swine flu pandemic looming
How can trusts put intensive care plans in place this winter with a swine flu pandemic looming, asks Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
Swine flu: lessons from the first wave of the pandemic
From managing masks to shaping public messages, staff in flu hotspots have plenty of advice for trusts braced for an autumn surge in cases. By Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
Get under the skin of nursing’s real costs
The Royal College of Nursing’s briefing on payment by results stresses the need to understand individuals’ contribution to costs and quality, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to improving services for deaf people
Deaf people’s healthcare can be greatly improved by services tuning in to better ways of communicating with hearing impaired individuals, writes Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
Call of the wild: the future threat of animal diseases
With the world watching the spread of swine flu, Jennifer Taylor looks at why infections originating in animals can be deadly to humans and asks how we can try to reduce the chances of them spreading to and between people
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HSJ Knowledge
How to tackle equality and diversity in the health service
NHS Employers has chosen 20 trusts as partners to lead the way on equality and diversity. HSJ looks at some of the schemes in place to improve the health service not just for patients but for its workforce too
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to fast and seamless stroke care
Good stroke care is not just about the acute stage - services must be designed from the paramedic through to social care post-discharge.
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HSJ Knowledge
Taking the waste out of primary care processes
Training in lean techniques which have brought greater efficiency to secondary care settings is increasingly available to PCT staff.
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Supplements
Round table - health Innovation: the future's bright
As spending is reined in the NHS must find ways to increase quality without raising costs. The answer, according to chief executive David Nicholson, is innovation. Jennifer Taylor finds out how the NHS can become cutting edge while stimulating economic growth
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HSJ Knowledge
Safe liaisons for patients in need of psychiatric help
An assessment team based in a general hospital can make all the difference to a patient’s care where there are mental health issues to consider. Jennifer Taylor reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient involvement: advance care planning gives peace of mind
In July the government will publish guidance on advance care planning. Jennifer Taylor finds out how you can give patients approaching the end of life the care they want
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HSJ Knowledge
Assisted suicide: a fitting end
Public opinion runs high over severely ill people seeking access to a service allowing them to take their own life under clinical control. Could current law on assisted suicide be changed? Jennifer Taylor reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving stroke care: fast thinking
Despite being one of the country's biggest killers and the largest cause of disability, stroke only recently gained a national strategy. Now the drive for faster intervention is giving it a much needed boost. Jennifer Taylor reports
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS compensation culture: do patients justice
The time taken to settle negligence claims against the NHS compares well with the insurance industry. But trusts could act quicker, or avoid litigation altogether by offering an apology. Jennifer Taylor reports
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HSJ Knowledge
Smooth operators
A programme targeted at surgeons and anaesthetists aims to ensure consistently excellent practice in operating theatres, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
Making time fly
Emails, meetings, sorting out that pile of paper: Jennifer Taylor looks at how the Productive Leader programme helps you cut tasks down to size
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