Service design – Page 115
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HSJ Knowledge
Making time fly
Emails, meetings, sorting out that pile of paper: Jennifer Taylor looks at how the Productive Leader programme helps you cut tasks down to size
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News
PCTs outsource provider arms to foundation trust
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees teaching primary care trusts have outsourced their entire provider arms to a local foundation trust.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on the NHS and the credit crunch
We seem to be officially heading into recession. Even if it is shallow and short, this will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable.
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News
North East Ambulance Service reform plans 'can go ahead'
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has thrown out an attempt by Tees Valley councillors to halt plans to reform the North East Ambulance Service.
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Supplements
Time and motion: a programme for NHS efficiency
Welcome to the special HSJ supplement on the Productive series.
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HSJ Knowledge
Providing healthcare on a small island
Some islanders 'would rather be crippled than go to the mainland for an operation'. Alison Moore reports on the goldfish-bowl world of remote island healthcare
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News
Health inequalities: wealthiest overfunded as the poor lose out
NHS services in the poorest and most needy parts of the country are being systematically underfunded to the benefit of the healthiest and wealthiest.Analysis by HSJ of the budgets allocated to GPs to pay for drugs and hospital care for their patients show that the wealthiest tenth of the population ...
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News
Monitor chair calls on PCTs to set out plans for services
The coming years will see an increase in foundation trusts running primary care services, as well as culls of failing hospitals, executive chair of the regulator Monitor Bill Moyes has predicted.
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News
Alan Johnson wants fewer London PCTs
Alan Johnson has called for a debate about whether there are too many primary care trusts in London. The health secretary told HSJ that he didn't think having 31 PCTs covering London was 'the most sensible arrangement'.
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News
Welsh NHS watchdog orders protocol review after murder
The NHS watchdog in Wales is calling on mental health service managers to review protocols for helping people with personality disorders, following a murder by a patient.
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News
Johnson keeps the faith on inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson says the life expectancy gap is closing and he is promising the end of GP shortages. There is more to do but this is no time for a 'counsel of despair', he tells Rebecca Evans
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News
NHS constitution consultation
The comments in HSJ bear no resemblance to the reality of the consultation on the NHS constitution in the East of England.
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HSJ Knowledge
Well-being pilot helps mental health service users
A local initiative offering a holistic approach to recovery and well-being has been successfully piloted in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
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HSJ Knowledge
Dying: open debate on the last taboo
Dying is a part of the life cycle yet many health professionals are afraid to discuss it. We must start talking about this if we are to give patients the best chance of a good death
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Comment
Nigel Edwards on NHS exceptional case panels
Over the summer no media report on the state of the NHS was complete without mention of the postcode lottery in treatments, either through challenges to primary care trust exceptional case panels or the perceived ethics of the current rules on top-ups.
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News
Why a health service redesign hit the rocks
With controversial reconfiguration plans in Sussex appearing shelf-bound, Alison Moore looks at the lessons for other trusts and asks whether changes on that scale are just too unwieldy to succeed
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News
Angioplasty to be primary heart attack treatment
NHS commissioners have been asked to develop a national network of cardiology services capable of delivering primary angioplasty as the main treatment for heart attacks.
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News
NHS absence from individual budget trials was 'missed opportunity'
The failure to involve the NHS in individual budget pilots was a 'missed opportunity' and deeply regretted by the social services staff who took part.
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News
Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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News
Alan Johnson orders trusts: cut waits for speech therapy
NHS organisations must work with allied health professionals to bring down 'unacceptable' waiting times for services such as speech therapy, health secretary Alan Johnson has told them.