All Service redesign articles – Page 81
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve variation in inappropriate admission performance
Paul Fitzsimmons explores the rate of inappropriate inpatient admissions associated with diabetes and discusses why CCGs must know how to harness information and to act on it.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy staff policy should revolve around patient needs
The Royal College of Nursing’s head of policy and international Howard Catton talks to Ruslan Zinchenko about designing staffing policies based on patient need.
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HSJ KnowledgeReady for the unexpected: how one trust is tackling unplanned admissions
Southend Estuary CCG provides one good example of how to deal with unplanned care issues when serving a challenging health population.
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HSJ KnowledgeBest foot forward: improving NHS organisations' carbon footprint
The NHS’s carbon footprint is massive, so what can be done to improve the environmental sustainability of healthcare, asks Chris Naylor.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping a route map for sustainability
A three-stranded plan for how to build sustainability in to the NHS can be used from local to national level as a spur to action, writes Sonia Roschnik.
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CommentNigel Crisp: the most precious commodity of all
On achieving a workforce skill mix to safeguard healthcare.
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SupplementsLong term conditions care - an HSJ supplement
This latest HSJ supplement looks at key aspects of care for patients with long term conditions.
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CommentRuth Carnall: take the shakes out of the shake-ups
Revamping NHS organisations will always be intense but these lessons from London can help to make things easier.
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CommentCiarán Devane: out with the old
A hypothesis for us: if we want to do more, we need to do less.
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CommentJohn Deffenbaugh: why the NHS and local government jigsaw can fit together this time
There have been many attempts to bring the NHS and local government closer together.
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HSJ KnowledgeA few words on self-management
Multilingual peer educators in north west London are helping people in hard to reach communities manage their diabetes, say Sunder Chita and colleagues.
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HSJ KnowledgeTen years of care trusts: six key findings
Ten years on from the establishment of the first care trusts, the Health Services Management Centre carried out a series of interviews with care trust leaders to see what could be learnt about integration.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CCGs can tackle the ever-shifting procurement regime
Mark Fitzgibbon and colleagues look at how CCGs can address operational issues around procurement without compromising performance.
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HSJ Local
Mid Yorks begins talks on reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has begun talks on major service change with its local commissioners, stakeholder and community.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow one trust's efficiency programme benefitted its foundation bid
As part of its foundation trust bid, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust embarked on a challenging three-year efficiency programme. Chief executive David Loughton explains what it achieved and how.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe ideas and innovations taking health services by storm
The Liberating Ideas Award was established to encourage the spread of service improvements. Alison Moore catches up with the 2011 winners to find out how they have fared.
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SupplementsInsights into oral chemotherapy service redesign
This exclusive article looks at the benefits of optimising oral chemotherapy service design.
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CommentThe benefits of centralised emergency services are less than clear
Small hospitals face growing threats, says Nigel Edwards.