All Service redesign articles – Page 109
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS turns to marketing to change public health attitudes
Taking lessons from commercial advertising, PCTs can use social marketing to help get health messages across effectively to their local populations. By Daloni Carlisle
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Leader
Care is still a long way from the community
This week’s HSJ revelation of the huge scale of primary care trusts’ overspend on acute care exposes the distance between the desire to move more care into the community and delivering it.
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News
Foundation trust fights London centralisation
A London foundation trust is rallying members to help protect services against centralisation.
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Comment
Richard Lewis and Matthew Bell on healthcare market stimulation
Commissioners will have to sharpen their understanding of healthcare markets and see carefully managed competition as a tool that works for the benefit of patients
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NewsCan integrated care usher in a new age of risk taking?
A speedy selection process has led to 16 projects being picked for integrated care pilots. Can they improve quality and test bold ideas or have we seen it all before, asks Helen Crump
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HSJ KnowledgeDomestic violence: its cost and the success of prevention
The NHS has long been used to treating the results of domestic violence but targeting the causes and perpetrators is a new avenue in preventive healthcare. Stuart Shepherd reports
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News
Severe personality disorders service consultation launched
The South East Coast, East of England, South Central and London regions are set to jointly launch a consultation on how to improve services for people with severe personality disorder.
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CommentLeading patient journeys: challenging stereotypes and perceptions
Clinical leadership is urgently needed to improve the care older people receive. Steve Feast explains
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HSJ Knowledge
How to use patient feedback to drive service improvement
An information revolution is promised as patients vent their spleen via health websites. Daloni Carlisle finds out how you can use their opinions to improve services
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News
Dumfries and Galloway reconfiguration plans face independent review
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has commissioned an independent review into reconfiguration proposals in the rural areas of Dumfries and Galloway.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeliver dignity with single sex wards
With the health secretary effectively fining hospitals that are still using mixed sex wards from 2010, action is needed now to segregate patients says Daloni Carlisle
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HSJ KnowledgeFoundation trusts: fans and critics speak out
Five years after foundation trusts were created, Helen Mooney talks to fans and critics about how they have fared and made use of their increased autonomy
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News
PCTs demand end to community foundation trust pilot
Primary care trust provider arms are calling on the Department of Health to drop the community foundation trust pilot scheme and allow them to apply for foundation status on a level playing field.
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NewsFoundation trusts challenged to use freedoms
The foundation trust sector is celebrating its achievements in the five years since its creation - but NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said the trusts have much more to do.
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HSJ KnowledgeImprove dementia care through a pathway to early diagnosis
Launched in February, the National Dementia Strategy identifies 17 main objectives for improving the quality of services to people affected by the condition.
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News
Integrated care will be tested by only 16 organisations
Just 16 organisations have made it onto the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot scheme.
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News
SHAs sign up to investing in NHS Institute services
Strategic health authorities have signed a five year commitment to invest in services offered by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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News
Blood service restructure should be stopped - Unite
Plans to restructure the blood transfusion service should be halted, health union Unite has said.