All Service redesign articles – Page 8
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HSJ PartnersCommunication systems must be updated if patient initiated follow up is to work effectively
This approach to appointment management has enormous promise, says Jane Tyacke, but getting it right means updating how the NHS communicates with patients
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CommentCommunity referrals can relieve burden on primary care
The pandemic has worsened health and wellbeing for many and widened inequalities further. Link workers can improve outcomes for people whom GPs may struggle to support and help achieve better results, writes Julie Bass
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NewsTrust seeks £30m for hot/cold split of orthopaedic services
An acute trust is seeking £30m in national funding to build a new elective care centre which it says would cut outsourcing costs and increase activity across its integrated care system.
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CommentFrom 'hospitality to health', enabling career change
Anchor institutions create local economies that serve people, place and planet, writes Conrad Parke
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CommentThe NHS needs 'space' to deal with years of 'chronic intense pressure'
In 2022, we need to think more about people working under chronic intense pressure and the only way to manage this pressure and sustain good work is to create as much space as possible for ourselves and our staff, writes Jon Restell
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HSJ InteractiveHow leaders can embed collaboration in integrated care systems
The culture of shared purpose and joint endeavour demonstrated during the pandemic will be needed to ensure the success of integrated care systems. An HSJ webinar explored how collaboration can be embedded. Alison Moore reports
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HSJ PartnersTo get elective care right, we need better ways for patients to share when they’re worried there’s a problem
Too often the ‘break glass in case of emergency’ process is broken itself, says Jane Tyacke. Improving communication can address that.
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CommentPutting neighbourhoods at the heart of integrated care
Leaning into neighbourhood working offers a threefold benefit: reducing demand on the health and care system, developing community resilience and enabling retention through delivering new models of care. By Toby Lewis
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CommentThe five habits of 'learning health systems'
During the past 18 months, healthcare systems have had to cope with the immense challenges of dealing with the unknowns. Dr Jenny Shand and Rachel Penniston shed light on the five features of a successful learning health system
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CommentThe removal of competition from the NHS is good news for the acute 'oligarchs'
The new legion of ICS leaders has some difficult problems to grapple with as the current acute system is akin to public sector oligarchs with a monopoly on staff, capital estate and coded activity, writes John Bennett
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CommentLaunching an EPR during the pandemic
The NHS needs access to the right technology and our leaders need to be making the right technology decisions, highlights Dr Ayesha Rahim
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CommentJulian Patterson: Willy Wonka and the transformation factory
New factory manager gears up for full production as NHS transformation drive gets underway, writes Julian Patterson
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CommentHow to make sure good analysts really can 'save more lives than a good anaesthetist'
When I think of ‘good analysts’ I picture someone striving to ‘improve decision quality’ for system leaders. Such good analysts really can save lives, writes Andi Orlowski
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HSJ PartnersLearning how to integrate, New York style
Experience from the Big Apple is helping to inspire an ICS workforce pilot in Hampshire, writes Nicola McQueen
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CommentWe need to make health inequalities everyone’s business
The NHS has to prioritise reducing inequalities in health, but the most important solutions are not always in its gift, write Stephen Bradley and Tom Gardiner
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CommentWhat are the reasons for high intensity A&E use?
To take action means looking out for people who are frequently attending anywhere in the health and care system, not just A&E, and referring them to dedicated services. By Julia Munro
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CommentJackie Daniel: NHS leaders must stand up for planet
As leaders in healthcare we have an important responsibility to speak out and to take action in tackling the climate crisis, writes Dame Jackie Daniel
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CommentDoing things differently to help GPs transform care and reduce demand
Matt Kearney on supporting primary care to do things differently and at scale as we emerge from the pandemic
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CommentGreening the NHS is about more than net zero
Tackling climate change and its health effects will be a key matter of board governance and leadership. By Nicoline Poulsen and Toby Lewis
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CommentJulian Patterson: Longstay tops the Blithering 20 again
The annual review of people who really matter at NHS Blithering, introduced by Martin Plackard, head of influencer communications