Service design – Page 116
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Michael White on keeping patients out of hospital
It is not often you read of a new controversy in the Sunday papers and stumble on what looks like the answer in Hansard before bedtime. It happened this week. Here goes.
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Patients get right to self-refer to physiotherapists
Patients will be able to self-refer to allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, speech therapists, dieticians and podiatrists, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.The British Medical Association warned that although the move could improve access it could lead to services being overstretched.
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Super trusts: unite and conquer
Five of the country's top performers are banding together to gain international renown for their research and healthcare. Will these new supercentres lead to competition or collaboration in their pursuit of glory? Ann McGauran finds out
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Helen Bevan on large-scale change in the health service
A sea change is happening in the way we approach large-scale change in the health service.
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Designing healthcare environments
These days designers don't just do dresses, they can also sketch out new environments that can improve the lives of patients and public service staff, says Deborah Szebeko
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Integrated care pilot sites sought
The Department of Health is looking for primary care trusts ready to commission new services from innovative groups of clinicians in a bid to pilot integrated care.
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Focusing on health inequalities
Bristol primary care trust is using an enhanced equality impact assessment to reduce health inequalities by transforming the way it allocates funds
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Making lean thinking work in the NHS
To be successful, lean principles have to inform everything an NHS organisation does. Here, the chief executive of Royal Bolton Hospital foundation trust explains how he and his staff are putting this into practice
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NHS Alliance conference begins with social enterprise rallying cry
The NHS Alliance has begun its annual conference in Bournemouth with a call to arms for the social enterprise movement.
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NHS Alliance rallying cry for social enterprise
The NHS Alliance has begun its annual conference in Bournemouth with a call to arms for the social enterprise movement.
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Stephen Eames on managing by fear
Up here in the North East the community is still reeling from the collapse of Northern Rock and is now watching with horror the ongoing farcical spectacle that is Newcastle United Football Club.
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Healthcare funding: is there enough to go round?
As new treatments and an ageing population put ever more pressure on health systems across the world, future governments will have to rethink the way that they are funded.
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Patients' voices in danger of drowning in paperwork
Patients could be put off taking part in NHS outcome measurement by overwhelmingly long questionnaires, market researchers fear.
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GP practice fights PCT over branch surgery
A GP practice is fighting a primary care trust, claiming it stopped its planned branch surgery because it would compete with another new practice.
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West Sussex puts hospital plan on ice after backlash
A hospital reconfiguration plan has been suspended two years after controversial plans were first floated.
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Trusts expect tight pinch from 2010
Real terms cuts expected to payment by results tariffTough road ahead for aspirant foundationsQuery over future of capital investmentStaff costs may fall in real terms
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Annual health check: London's NHS trusts slide down rankings
London is falling behind the rest of the country for service quality despite launching its Darzi plan a year before other regions.
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Develop minor injury/illness services
Research identifies that on average, 75 per cent of attendances at an emergency department are minor. In terms of policy and dynamic action, this majority is ignored. Yet by fully developing the minor injury/illness service, the pressure on emergency departments would be relieved.
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David Allen on letting the public shape the NHS
The government has published another NHS white paper in which politicians tell the public what sort of health service we must receive. It is time this changed.
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Rise in GP practices offering extended hours
A census carried out on 22 September shows that 51.4 per cent of GP practices are now offering extended hours.