All Productive ward articles – Page 3

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Christine Beasley on how staff can revolutionise the NHS

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    I have been involved with the Productive Ward, designed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, from the very beginning of its development, and personally launched the initiative at the Royal College of Nursing conference in 2007. Since then, I have kept a close interest in its progress.

  • News

    Productive Ward

    2008-11-01T11:24:00Z

    Ward nurses spend an average of just 40 per cent of their time on direct patient care, according to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

  • Supplements

    Time and motion: a programme for NHS efficiency

    2008-11-01T01:00:00Z

    Welcome to the special HSJ supplement on the Productive series.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS Institute's burning ambitions at end of the beginning

    2008-10-02T09:00:00Z

    For three years the NHS Institute has been improving services by helping trusts innovate. Now, says its chief executive, it relishes the challenge of expanding its role without diluting its benefits.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Increasing productivity in nursing

    2008-06-20T09:00:00Z

    In a programme that pre-empted the Productive Ward initiative by a year, Ipswich Hospital trust improved its nursing services by changing the ward sister role

  • News

    Managers urged to use time efficiently

    2008-06-19T09:55:00Z

    Senior leadership teams in the NHS could save more than 2,000 hours a year by making meetings more efficient, attendees at the NHS Confederation annual conference have heard.

  • Comment

    Helen Bevan on implementing Darzi

    2008-05-19T09:00:00Z

    What will it take to deliver the recommendations of Lord Darzi's next stage review?

  • News

    £50m for productive ward roll-out

    2008-05-09T12:47:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced a £50m fund to support the national roll-out of the Productive Ward programme.

  • Comment

    Helen Bevan on workload liberation

    2008-04-21T09:00:00Z

    Over the last decade, I have made many attempts (some documented in this column) to improve my personal work systems and processes but struggled to sustain them under the burden of a growing workload.

  • Comment

    Tackling violence

    2008-03-13T09:00:00Z

    Despite the lack of a national standardised training scheme for dealing with violent patients, there are developments taking place in managing violence, writes Rob Grant

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Helen Bevan on the shape of things to come

    2008-02-25T09:00:00Z

    I'm proud to be a Coventry resident. Among Coventry's many attributes are a) it's the home of the NHS Institute and b) it has its own Ikea store.

  • News

    Ann Keen pledges to support Productive Ward

    2008-01-28T17:35:00Z

    Health minister Ann Keen has pledged her support to the Productive Ward programme, which is designed to help ward nurses release more timefor direct patient care.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Helen Bevan on the productive theatre

    2008-01-21T09:00:00Z

    Hot on the heels of the successful Productive Ward, the NHS Institute has begun the Productive Operating Theatre programme in response to great demand.

  • News

    In this week's HSJ

    2007-12-13T09:00:00Z

    NewsFoundation trusts seeking to maximise income from private patients have been dealt a blow this week by legal actions involving their regulator Monitor and the Charity Commission.Hospitals say they have been hit by a 'frightening' shortage of locum staff because of changes to junior doctors' training.Reducing health inequalities, cutting healthcare-acquired ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Productive ward: making time to improve patient care

    2007-12-10T09:00:00Z

    Frontline staff will be able to devise their own strategies for spending more time with patients under productive ward. Alexis Nolan reports

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Productive Ward programme extends its reach

    2007-10-16T12:26:00Z

    The drive to develop tools to help acute staff improve their ward processes and help nursing staff spend more time on patient care has moved forward with the creation of 10 'learning partner' trusts and two 'whole hospital' sites to road test the draft modules.

  • News

    Upcoming Productive Ward events

    2007-10-16T00:00:00Z

    HSJ and sister title Nursing Times have teamed up with the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement to hold events at each of the four Productive Ward test sites.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Clinical service redesign

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Salford PCTA new model of care for neuroscience disorders was developed in order to meet the 18 week targets.The existing service model was overwhelmed, with 11 week waiting times for first outpatient appointment, 13 weeks for a routine MRI and a further ten weeks ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Helen Bevan on the best practice puzzle

    2007-07-23T00:00:00Z

    'When a new idea is adopted by around 15-20 per cent of the target, it is likely to take on a life of its own and spread naturally'

  • News

    Case managers make all the difference

    2007-04-30T10:04:37Z

    When my mother was near death from kidney failure in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, US, I was amazed that she was stabilised and transferred to an excellent rehab centre in one week. I was amazed again when the rehab centre had her mobile, on a stable dialysis regime and ...