All Service redesign articles – Page 116
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News
Helen Bevan on the six lessons of success
This is my 11th year as a national improvement leader in the NHS. During this time, I have led or supported more than 70 major national improvement initiatives, in priority areas such as quality, emergency care, waiting times, cancer services, leadership and care closer to home. Yet I have never ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Winds of change
An exciting new role is beginning to take shape: people and organisations that can exemplify productive practice and guide others
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Far and wide
The principles of Productive Ward are now being applied in community hospitals and mental health wards. But will the programme succeed outside its original context, asks Ingrid Torjesen
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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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Whole lotta shake-up
They have succeeded on individual wards, but are trusts in Nottingham and Manchester up to the bigger challenge of transforming whole hospitals, asks Stuart Shepherd
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Roll out, roll out
With services in the community going 'productive' in summer 2009, Nigel Hopps looks forward both to the opportunities and the challenges this presents
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'This is a phenomenon'
The NHS has seen countless initiatives but the Productive Ward seems different - in the sheer enthusiasm it provokes, the refreshing lack of jargon and the way it was developed from the bottom up. Stuart Shepherd explains
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.