All Service redesign articles – Page 154
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David Baker on the maze of choice
While a.wider choice of services is a good thing.for patient care, the public needs more guidance on where to go for non-emergency urgent care, says David Baker.
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Legal briefing: mutual trusts
With an NHS merger boom seemingly on the cards, let our experts guide you through the legal landscape
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Paul Walley on a common ritual
'Is some strange magic at work that conjures up empty beds so suddenly? Sadly not - it's just system dynamics'
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Take steps to cut out waste
All staff can develop methods that trim time and effort to increase rewarding efficiency gains
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DoH demands better access for patients
Primary care trusts will have to demonstrate 'tangible improvements' in patients' access to GP services by the end of the year.
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Agenda for Change aims 'unfulfilled'
The majority of managers have been found to support Agenda for Change even though it overspent by millions of pounds and has failed to increase productivity.
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Deferrals and delays put applications target at risk
Prospective foundation trusts are facing delays to their authorisation of up to six months, Monitor has admitted.
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Wave three treatment centres axed
The cancellation of the next wave of independent sector treatment centres has raised questions over the government's commitment to using private sector companies in the NHS.
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DoH misses deadline as it fails to deliver own turnaround plan
The Department of Health has missed its own deadline to publish plans on how it will address a catalogue of corporate failures set out in a government review.
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Target-driven department is off the mark
'Reforming the DoH to make it an effective and respected department is an important step on the road to rebuilding NHS confidence in the government'
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Adult care joint ventures
The Integrated Care Network's report Adult Care Joint Ventures: aspirations, challenges and options sets out to explore radically alternative models of adult care services commissioning and provision.
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Assessing how well your team works
A simple assessment can help managers evaluate how well their team is performing.
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Promoting partnerships through the Integrated Care Network
The Integrated Care Network plays a key role in promoting partnership working in the health service. Julia Thompson reports on its work
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Carers must be treated with dignity
Lord Darzi has been asked by the health secretary.to review the main challenges facing the NHS, including ensuring that care for people with long-term conditions is joined-up, patient focused, offers best value and is delivered with dignity in the best location for each patient, which for many will be their ...
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Dr Maire Smith on nurturing innovation
'NHS staff have a wealth of ideas and a number of these could be translated into tangible benefits, not only for the patient, but also for the organisation'
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Neil Goodwin on the importance of partnerships
'With the little wisdom, insight and maturity that I hope I have developed with age and experience, I am able to confess that some inter-organisational relationships suffered as I pursued system-wide strategic change'
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Public health and service integration
The Role of Public Health in Integrated Services is a 48-page discussion paper that provides an overview of the scope of public health practice. It outlines some of the tools and techniques that might be used in designing and evaluating integrated services, and explains how they might be used as ...
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New media - new medicine?
Innovative projects in patient care are making good use of new media, write Shak Gohir and Eve Knight
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Stephen Ramsden on telling tales
'It was my first real local experience of the power of the patient's story, and has led to dramatic improvements in our stillbirth rates today'
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Cash not the secret to hitting 18-week target
Trusts do not need major investment to achieve the 18-week waiting-time target, a study has found.