All Resource Centre Data Feature articles – Page 4
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HSJ KnowledgeLower leg care: no one left out on a limb
Leg Clubs are a social model for managing treatment such as ulcer care, where patients can feel in control and share information, says Julian Tyndale-Biscoe
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HSJ KnowledgeWhen doctors network change can happen fast
Easy online access to shared information and peer discussion is proving a prime mover in engaging clinicians with quality assessment and transforming services
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to make sexual health promotion a success
Public and patient engagement in genito-urinary and HIV services in Coventry has included a comic turn and simpler branding, reports Lynne Greenwood
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat mental health service users want
Enabling mental health service users to communicate their views and direct their care requires a variety of routes, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeCare homes: getting to grips with GP retainers
GPs demanding fees from care homes must justify their charges to avoid provoking a scandal, says Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to plan for cold weather with a swine flu pandemic looming
How can trusts put intensive care plans in place this winter with a swine flu pandemic looming, asks Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeSwine flu: lessons from the first wave of the pandemic
From managing masks to shaping public messages, staff in flu hotspots have plenty of advice for trusts braced for an autumn surge in cases. By Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeGet under the skin of nursing’s real costs
The Royal College of Nursing’s briefing on payment by results stresses the need to understand individuals’ contribution to costs and quality, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to ensure patients get the right care at the right time
Deciding when to move patients off wards and into community care settings is strongly supported by an appropriateness of care tool. Daloni Carlisle explains
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HSJ KnowledgeA guide to improving services for deaf people
Deaf people’s healthcare can be greatly improved by services tuning in to better ways of communicating with hearing impaired individuals, writes Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeWays to buy in to the lung cancer strategy
To maintain momentum in fighting lung cancer, commissioners must be thinking about awareness services and multidisciplinary teams, reports Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS must look after its hidden workers
Carers play a central role in many healthcare users’ lives. Although services are recognising that they must be valued and supported, there is much more to be done to ensure this unpaid workforce’s wellbeing
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HSJ KnowledgeParatroopers mark D-Day in war on childhood obesity
Drafting in paratroopers to show overweight children that exercise is fun is just one novel initiative that has had results.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhistleblowers in the NHS: keep in tune with the law
When staff raise concerns about what is happening in their workplace, managers should not respond with a kneejerk threat of dismissal. Have a whistleblowing policy in place and be sure of all the facts, advises Jane Hobson
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HSJ KnowledgeFT competencies: a new look for leaders
The next step in the evolution of foundation trusts will require their top people to develop different leadership skills from those that did the job in the early days
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to tackle equality and diversity in the health service
NHS Employers has chosen 20 trusts as partners to lead the way on equality and diversity. HSJ looks at some of the schemes in place to improve the health service not just for patients but for its workforce too
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HSJ KnowledgeA guide to fast and seamless stroke care
Good stroke care is not just about the acute stage - services must be designed from the paramedic through to social care post-discharge.
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HSJ KnowledgeTaking the waste out of primary care processes
Training in lean techniques which have brought greater efficiency to secondary care settings is increasingly available to PCT staff.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe Patient Safety First Campaign – 12 months on
Twelve months have passed since the June 2008 launch of the Patient Safety First Campaign. Promoting a vision of an NHS with no avoidable death or harm, the campaign is helping to make patient safety the highest priority for everyone from chief executive to ward cleaner, surgeon to visiting carer.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to avoid malnutrition on NHS hospital wards
The health of many older patients is being jeopardised through lack of attention at meal times. Jennifer Taylor looks at how you can make sure they eat properly