All Public and patient involvement articles – Page 23
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Leader
Public engagement with service information is key test of choice
HSJ editor Alastair McLellan’s leader.
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Comment
Readers' letters – 31 May 2012
Information strategy leaves a gap between rhetoric and reality; and a sore point on nurse registration.
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News
Cameron introduces 'family and friends' hospitals rating
A system for ranking NHS hospitals by patient satisfaction in “real time” will be introduced across England from April next year, the prime minister has announced.
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HSJ Local
Royal Wolverhampton produces newspaper
PERFORMANCE: A West Midlands hospital has produced its own four-page newspaper to be distributed to more than 100,000 homes.
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Comment
Patient preferences matter: another call for doctors to change
Do clinicians really know what patients want?
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HSJ Knowledge
How patient perspectives can help improve service design
Patient opinions are a precious source of information. Natalie Cook and Keith Miller explain how to make listening to them a fundamental part of service design.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to make equality and diversity a central part of your organisation
Three leaders discuss how they are working to make equality and diversity part of their organisation’s DNA.
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HSJ Local
Shropshire Healthwatch consultation
STRUCTURE: Shropshire Council has launched a consultation on plans to set up its local Healthwatch.
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News
Information strategy details: Lansley promises online GP access to 'end 8am rush'
The health secretary has promised patients easier interaction with GP practices, as he published the long awaited NHS information strategy today.
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HSJ Local
Governor elections for Mid Staffs
STRUCTURE: Elections will be held to fill six public vacancies on the council of governors at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and candidates are being urged to come forward to represent their areas.
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Leader
The data debate needs a dose of pragmatism
Things could quickly turn sour despite best intentions of data-sharing plans.
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Comment
'A culture shift can help reduce prescription wastage'
Patient involvement is paramount to prescription policy.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to improve commissioning for long term conditions
Don Redding of National Voices identifies three types of people who can enhance the commissioning of services for people with long term conditions.
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HSJ Local
Circle publishes Hinchingbrooke patient feedback
Hinchingbrooke Hospital - the first acute NHS hospital to be run by a private company - is collecting feedback from every patient and publishing it on its website.
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HSJ Local
Staffordshire trusts join new patient body
STRUCTURE: A raft of NHS organisations have signed up to a new independent body created by a Midlands county council to improve public confidence in the health and social care sector.
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Comment
'The reforms could be the coalition's poll tax'
We will know by 2015 whether the public’s NHS experiences mean Andrew Lansley has pulled off this massive gamble, says Ipsos MORI’s chief executive Ben Page.
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HSJ Local
New patient body praised in Staffordshire
STRUCTURE: A Midlands county council has been praised for creating an independent body to bring together patient advocacy and health service information into a single body.
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Blogs
Are online patients empowered patients?
Liberating health data can stimulate innovation and get patients involved in their own health, according to one speaker at a US event. Pamela Garside blogs about whether this approach could take off in the UK as well.
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Comment
Nigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded
Does the Health Act leave Lansley powerless?
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HSJ Knowledge
From healthcare to self care: services that help patients look after themselves
Dee Kyne explains how investing in a service redesign secured savings for one practice and health improvements for its patients.