All Health Service Journal articles in May 2018
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Primary care initiative of the year
Winner Healthier Fleetwood Primary Care Home: Resident empowerment and service integration In 2014, GP services in Fleetwood were at risk of falling over with a shortage of GPs and a high proportion of people with long-term conditions in the town, creating high demand for services. This has changed due to ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Community health services redesign
Winner University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust: Find and treat – healthcare for homeless and vulnerable people The University College London Hospitals FT’s “find and treat” services target homeless and vulnerable people who are at high risk of tuberculosis, blood-borne viruses and other serious health problems. It uses state-of-the-art diagnostic ...
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LeaderJeremy Hunt: a ‘good’ health secretary?
Jeremy Hunt’s tenure as health secretary - the longest there has been - has come to an end. HSJ editor Alastair Mclellan reflects on his achievements and missteps.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Clinical leadership and safety
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Repudiation, legislation and the long term NHS plan
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior bureau chief Dave West.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Acute Service Redesign
Winner Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust: Single Clerking at BSUH: Redesigning the Acute Floor The single clerking project at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust involves the first doctor to see the patient completing full, high quality clerking, with no re-clerking later by another doctor. Unnecessary delays for patients ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Community Health Service Redesign
Winner Whittington Health Trust: eCommunity Growing demand on district nursing services run by Whittington Health Trust had led to demand exceeding capacity, multiple moved appointment times for patients and long distances between allocated visits. The eCommunity project aimed to maximise efficiency through using software to allocate patients and appointments to ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of Surgical Services
Winner University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust: Savings to the Health Economy – Introduction of Mechanical Thrombectomy, a new minimally invasive surgical technique University Hospitals of the North Midlands Trust has introduced a new mechanical clot extracting interventional technique for patients with strokes. The previously gold standard treatment – thrombolysis ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Mental health
Winner Devon Partnership Trust on behalf of South West Regional Secure Services: South West Regional Secure Services – Wave One New Care Model Pilot A year ago, over half of South West patients requiring low or medium security mental health beds were being treated outside of the region. They also ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving Value Through Innovative Financial Management or Procurement
Winner Public Health Wales: Reuse and refurbishment of furniture through circular economy procurement Public Health Wales was previously split between many buildings with varying amounts of space and facilities, which did not meet the needs of the organisation. The decision was taken to move to one large ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Enhancing Value Through Increasing Patient Safety and Reducing Litigation
Winner Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in collaboration with Yorkshire and Humber AHSN Improvement Academy: Yorkshire Safety Huddles Clinical incidents can involve patient harm, demoralise staff, and have a financial impact on the organisation involved. Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, in collaboration with Yorkshire and Humber AHSN Improvement Academy, introduced daily safety ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving Value Through Better Diabetes Care
Winner North West London Collaboration of CCGs: NW London diabetes transformation programme The project aimed to improve outcomes for diabetics in the community by reducing variation in the care they received. GP networks received performance related payments according to whether they meet certain quality indicators, including meeting the percentage of ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
Winner North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust: Medication reduction in a Learning Disability inpatient service People with learning disabilities often end up on anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medicines in an attempt to control their behaviour. This prescribing is not always based on clinical indications and can sometimes continue for years. The trust ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Specialist Services
Winner University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust: Mechanical Thrombectomy in Stroke – Produces Improved Clinical Outcomes and Cost Benefits University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust has introduced a new mechanical clot extracting interventional technique for patients with strokes. The previous gold standard treatment – thrombolysis – was only effective in ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Training and Development
Winner University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust: Medicines Learning Portal An online site helps junior pharmacists to develop the skills they need to solve the common clinical problems they are likely to encounter in the early days of their career. This is delivered through online text, images, quizzes, audio, clinical scenarios ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: The Use of Information Technology to Drive Value in Clinical Services
Winner Imperial College Healthcare Trust – Department of Neonatology: Integrated Family Delivered Care Project (IFDC) Parents with premature or unwell babies can have very little involvement in caring for their babies while they are in a neonatal unit. Imperial College Healthcare Trust devised a programme to help ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Workforce efficiency
Winner Conexus Healthcare: GP Care Wakefield Providing accessible same day access to primary care is one of the keys to controlling accident and emergency attendances. Conexus was commissioned by the clinical commissioning group to work with practices and patients to design a way to offer same day GP and advanced ...
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HSJ InteractiveWinners of 2018 HSJ Value Awards revealed
The HSJ Value Awards 2018 honour projects that deliver improvements for patients
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Clinical Support Services
Winner Access Health Care: CareSnap Wound Management Access Health Care identified problems with recording wounds or moles due to issues with digital cameras, images not uploading properly or being of poor quality, and the need for significant note taking. As a solution it created an app – CareSnap – which ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2018: Communication
Winner Mersey Care Foundation Trust: Staff Engagement Sessions – No Force First Mersey Care FT’s “No Force First” scheme attempts to reduce the use of physical restraint on mental health and learning disability inpatients and improve their experience in hospital. The trust recognised that communication was a key part of ...