All Service redesign articles – Page 175
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HSJ Knowledge
10 high-impact changes for service improvement and delivery
'We sought evidence to show which areas realised the greatest benefit the 10 high-impact changes. We wanted to find out how these benefits changes might be measured in relation to the impact on service users and carers, staff and organisations, service delivery and social care outcomes'
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HSJ Knowledge
At your service
The government and PCTs are contemplating the benefits of community foundation trusts, but are they really the future for provider services, asks Kaye McIntosh
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News
'I say what I think - it can be uncomfortable'
Emergency access czar Professor Sir George Alberti has spent his career as an outspoken agent of change. Here he reveals how he prefers to eschew politeness and tackle controversy
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HSJ Knowledge
The safer sex
Medium secure provision for women has been inadequate, but services tailored to their needs are now being provided. Emma Dent reports
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HSJ Knowledge
What's quality?
With the emphasis on financial turnaround and the 18-week target, the primary focus of most organisations is finance and delivery. Patient experience and service quality do not seem to get the same attention. But does better-quality healthcare cost more money, or less?
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Comment
Simon Stevens on powering reforms
Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses
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HSJ Knowledge
Power of two
A new bill will oblige councils and primary care trusts to work together. In a joint feature with Local Government Chronicle, Kaye McIntosh asks how it will work in practice
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News
SHAs to review need for PCT top-slicing
NHS North West is the first strategic health authority to confirm that it will not top-slice money from primary care trusts this financial year.
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News
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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Comment
Michael White on YouTube politics
'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'
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Comment
Michael White on the IT programme
Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach
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Comment
Michael White: the IT programme
'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'
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News
Michael White on politics
It is the Hewitt-Blair vision of US-style competing hospitals which causes offence to activists in Wales
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Comment
Michael white on politics
Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.
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Comment
Michael white on politics
'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''
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News
Michael White on politics
'One insider said Gordon Brown is obsessed with the NHS and he'll have his hands all over it. That figures'
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News
Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson's been put there to talk to staff and take people with him, explains one ally'
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Comment
Michael White on politics
'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'