All Resource Centre Data Feature articles – Page 2
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS referral management: how to get it right
Referral management can save money but its guiding principles must be about quality - not just blanket cuts in numbers referred, say Chris Naylor and Candace Imison
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HSJ KnowledgeA telemedicine solution to stroke care
Telemedicine using broadband has enabled a faster stroke response with significant savings in Cumbria and Lancashire, as Hedley Emsley and colleagues explain
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HSJ KnowledgeStop lethal blood clots: get good ideas into circulation
In Salisbury work on upgrading risk assessment for lethal blood clots halved secondary venous thromboembolism rates in two years, reports Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgePublic health: Is your activity on target?
In the second part in our series on social marketing, Stuart Shepherd looks at an online toolkit that can help improve productivity and service quality by targeting resources effectively
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HSJ KnowledgeA rapid return to high quality NHS reporting
Michelle Rhodes and Jim Hatton explain how their trust’s emergency department acted decisively to bring performance reporting and data quality up to the mark
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HSJ KnowledgeExpert patients: everyone can benefit
Self management can improve outcomes and quality of life for patients while cutting the demand for NHS services and associated costs. Jim Phillips explains
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to tackle poor housing standards and improve health
Environmental health officers and advocates in Liverpool used PCT funding to help reduce poor housing standards that harm health. Marie-Claire Kidd reports
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HSJ KnowledgeCost effective commissioning for rheumatoid arthritis
Agreed standards for early diagnosis aim at managing inflammatory arthritis better and making savings as a result, say Richard Watts and Jenny Snell.
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HSJ KnowledgePlugging the inequality gaps with prevention
A workforce in the West Midlands uses its community knowledge to help some of the most at-risk and disadvantaged people, as Stuart Shepherd explains
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HSJ KnowledgeMental health innovation: how to drive quality from pilot to practice
Mental health services are providing the NHS with clear examples of quality and productivity projects that have significant outcomes, says Andy McKeon
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HSJ KnowledgeEssential items for your NHS recession survival kit
The lean thinking needed during hard economic times is an eye opener for better management, says Phil Kenmore
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HSJ KnowledgeCapturing the costs of community services
Evidence is essential to designing community services that truly transform care delivery rather than simply shift vulnerable budgets, warns Noel Plumridge
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HSJ KnowledgePublic engagement: how foundation trusts fish for members
Staging activities and projects with popular appeal helps foundation trusts boost membership, says Ann McGauran
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HSJ KnowledgePatient safety: falls prevention
Assessing patient at risk of falling should not be left to nurses and geriatricians alone but must involve professionals from across disciplines, says Helen Mooney
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HSJ KnowledgePatient safety: the human factors
‘Human factors’ can create gaps in systems that endanger patients. In the second part in our series Helen Mooney explains how self-knowledge is the first step to safer care
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how green are your care pathways?
The way forward in carbon reduction is through creative commissioning for pathways of care. In the final part in our series on sustainability, Jennifer Taylor looks at how the new approach is gaining momentum
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS sustainability: moving care into the community
More care in community settings is a must for a sustainable NHS as well as a healthier environment, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: keep NHS procurement carbon conscious
Procurement is the NHS’s biggest carbon producer but this trend can be countered, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS sustainability: how to achieve long term efficiencies
Moving care closer to home and focusing on prevention are ways to achieve long term efficiencies, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how to cut costs and your carbon footprint
NHS organisations with sustainability policies may be helping to save the planet but closer to home they are also driving performance, says Jennifer Taylor