Service design – Page 187
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How Buckinghamshire is moving opthalmology closer to home
There is a lot of rhetoric about moving care closer to home but how easy is it and can quality be maintained?
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Practitioner view: Measuring outcomes in mental health and social care
Measuring outcomes is a direct way to improve the quality and accountability of services. It can help us to improve our understanding of the impact of services on people's lives. Those who use services and carers need reassurance that treatments and care provided are producing results for them as individuals, ...
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Mike Cooke on mental health
'We have to dance, sing and juggle, often at the same time - and now we need more proof we are accountable'
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Autonomy is key to applying lessons from private sector
'Do NHS managers really believe the 'myth' that public sector values are at odds with what Tony Blair called 'proper business management techniques'?'
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Efficiency drive lies at the heart of PM's uncompromising message
The prime minister's interview with HSJ this week poses important questions for health service managers. Among the familiar - the NHS is important, managers do a good job - are some more subtle but pointed messages.
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Mark Britnell on starting life as an SHA chief exec
'I recently chaired a conference where it was put to me that I would be neither a poacher nor a gamekeeper but rather the pheasant!'
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Ten leaders who could put reform progress back on track
What do we know of the chief executives who will be running the new strategic health authorities from next week?
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Don't leave unhappy medics to stew
'And there will be more points of conflict to come, such as the issue of where doctors work as opposed to where they are needed.'
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Good buy to all that: the need for procurement focus
With the government set to become a major purchaser of public services far more attention must be paid to the procurement process, warns Ann Rossiter of the Social Market Foundation
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Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders
One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'
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Sophia Christie on primary care
'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'
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Progress is about perception as headlines and reality clash
While optimism over the NHS is low, the public's feelings about services and choice are more positive. These contradictory perceptions mean GPs, managers and the DH have their work cut out ensuring patients 'interpret' reforms favourably, write MORI's Ben Page and Jonathan Nichols
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Mike White on politics
'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'
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Barometer: mental health September 2006
Mental health chief executives surveyed for Barometer report high levels of confidence on recruitment of medical, nursing and therapy staff.
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Simon Stevens on long tails and J curves
'Bremmer's book turns in a clever explanation for why things often get worse before they get better'
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Day case rates
Marc Farr says day-case rates over the last three years have shown little sign of improvement