All Health Service Journal articles in May 2018 – Page 2
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of NHS Support Services
Winner Lancashire Care Foundation Trust: Improving value and patient safety through the creation of a team of specialised serious incident investigators Lancashire Care FT set up an investigations and learning team, in response to concerns that the trust was not effectively learning from serious incidents. This central team now undertakes ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2018: Value and Improvement in Facilities and Estates Management
Winner Barts Health Trust – Waste management team: Sustainable Reuse & Bulk Waste Prevention Project Barts Health Trust’s waste management team – which is a partnership with Skanska’s waste contracted management services – wanted to reduce the number of unwanted bulk items which were being disposed of. Some of these ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of Diagnostic Services
Winner St Bartholomew’s Hospital – Department of Cardiac Imaging: Making MRI available for cardiac pacemaker patients Nearly half a million people in England have a cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator. Each of these patients has a 75 per cent lifetime chance of needing an MRI scan but often have difficulty accessing ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2018: Emergency, Urgent and Trauma Care
Winner University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust: UHBristol Emergency Department High Impact User Team University Hospitals Bristol FT has identified around 800 high impact users, who attended the emergency department very frequently – up to 60 times a year. This use is often associated with personal, health, mental health or housing ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving the Value of Primary Care Services
Winner West Wakefield Health & Wellbeing: Care Navigation national consultancy & training programme Sponsored by West Wakefield Health and Wellbeing trained 277 receptionists as care navigators who support patients by signposting them to alternative healthcare professionals and services in their area, such as pharmacies. This programme was developed ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2018: Improving Value in the Care of Frail Older Patients
Winner Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group and Walsall Healthcare Trust: Enhanced Health Care Model for Nursing Homes Data showed that nursing homes admissions to accident and emergency in the Walsall area usually involved the ambulance service being called and 90 per cent of these admissions were due to five reasons – ...
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HSJ Interactive
Improving efficiency in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment
MRI technology has multiple roles at multiple points throughout the prostate cancer patient’s journey right from diagnosis to monitoring disease progression, say Professor Anwar Padhani and Alistair Piggot
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News
CCGs ordered to deploy online 111 service ahead of winter
NHS England has ordered the service to bring forward the national roll-out of NHS 111 Online, to ensure the digital triage tool is in place ahead of winter, according to CCG papers.
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News
Milestone trust merger completed
A merger to create the NHS’s largest trust providing both physical community health services and mental health services has been approved by NHS Improvement.
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News
Trusts claim zero 'avoidable deaths' under 'misconceived' policy
A flagship policy that requires trusts to publish data on the number of avoidable deaths is “misconceived”, said a leading expert, after data showed many trusts reporting zero.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: Community services on the move again
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight. This week by HSJ primary and community correspondent Rebecca Thomas.
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News
Daily Insight: Jeremy Hunt's place in history
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Merger in the pipeline, fire safety risks and gender pay gap
Your essential update on health for the week
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News
Prosecution of hospital chief nurse dropped
The prosecution of a hospital trust chief nurse for false accounting has been dropped.
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HSJ Local
NHS Improvement rejects bids for small trust takeover
NHS Improvement has rejected two separate bids to take over a community trust, claiming neither submission met the full criteria.
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HSJ Interactive
Celebrating organisations where workers feel able to speak up and know their concerns will be listened to
Ingrid Torjesen writes about the new Creating a Supportive Staff Culture category in the HSJ Awards this year
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News
Visa cap is 'not logical' and threatens patient care
The government’s tier two visa cap is “not logical” and is “threatening patient care and safety”, HSJ has been told.
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News
Daily Insight: Winners and losers on finance
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership
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Comment
Patient leadership for real - The Sussex model for patient partnership
With patients as trusted equals in decision making, Sussex MSK Partnership (Central) appointed the first patient director in the NHS to facilitate patient partnerships for improvement and governance, says David Gilbert
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News
Exclusive: Chief named for biggest group of CCGs
An accountable officer has been appointed across eight clinical commissioning groups in London, covering the most populous patch of any chief officer.