All Service redesign articles – Page 85
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HSJ KnowledgeLegal lessons: securing judicial review of service reconfiguration
The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust has successfully claimed Judicial Review of the Safe and Sustainable consultation about Paediatric Congenital Cardiac Services. Hempsons colleagues Bertie Leigh and Christian Dingwall explain how.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy early discharge in stroke care can be vital for recovery
Home rehabilitation is a vital component of improving stroke care. Mirek Skrypak and colleagues explain how they have put it into practice in north London.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping a new care pathway to enhance responses to alcohol cases
Alcohol-related emergency care demand needs to be understood and managed if the number of cases is to be reduced, say James Bell and colleagues.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow service line management can inspire improved behaviours throughout NHS organisations
Service line management can empower frontline clinicians to make the changes the NHS needs for future viability. The big challenge is changing the way NHS organisations are managed, says Chris Calkin.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe critical need to evaluate and improve back office functions
The health reforms have ushered in a difficult period for health service providers to deliver improving services, but just as challenging is the crucial reorganisation required to improve the back office functions that support frontline services. Claire MacConnell explains.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow workforce transformation can help organisations hit QIPP targets
Using a competence based approach to workforce transformation across patient pathways helped improve patient experience in the North West and South West, as well as gains in productivity and quality of care. Robert Sumpter and Tim Lund explain.
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Comment'Specialised commissioning gives the NHS Commissioning Board a chance to deliver'
The NHS Commissioning Board will have control over specialised commissioning from April 2013. It is a very real opportunity to bring about dramatic improvements in clinical quality, and speed up the adoption of innovation across the NHS, says John Murray.
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HSJ KnowledgeGulf in class: how Qatar is driving excellence by investing in academic research
Standing out among countries in the Middle East, Qatar is investing in an academic health research partnership on the US health science centre model. Simon Lewis reports.
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SupplementsThe future challenges facing pathology - an online Q&A
Burning questions such as what will drive collaboration between trusts to make savings for pathology drew HSJ readers to link up with an expert panel. Alison Moore reports from the online Q&A, sponsored by Roche Diagnostics.
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CommentFrom Tokyo to Torbay, integrating services will prove to be the future
Healthcare services in Torbay, England and in Tokyo, Japan both provide valuable insight into how the health service in the UK might look in the future. In getting ready, there are some stark lessons to learn, writes Mark Britnell.
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HSJ Knowledge
Neurology services in need of new headache pathways to improve productivity
The consistent failure to properly manage headache referrals have put unwelcome pressures on clinical neurology services already struggling with capacity. New pathways for headache patients could relieve some of the pain, says Hedley Emsley.
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News'Top leaders' to help trusts get through FT pipeline
The NHS Top Leaders programme has launched a drive to send senior managers into NHS trusts needing help with savings plans or getting through the foundation trust pipeline.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why a better understanding of emergency admissions needs better data
Emergency attendance and admission will only be reduced by greater understanding of the demand. It is vital, says Simon Rowe, to make sure you use the most appropriate data.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a COPD care bundle is reducing readmissions
Implementing a COPD care bundle can reduce readmissions and aid patient self-management. But it is only part of the solution, say Trish Winn, Maria Buxton and Mary Noone at the North West London Hospitals Trust.
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Comment'It's time for a one year maximum wait'
Problems with waiting times are far from insurmountable - they just require the will to change, argue Rob Findlay and Anthony McKeever.
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HSJ Local
Durham & Darlington FT launches community palliative care
STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust is supporting a community palliative care response team with St Teresa’s Hospice and Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe critical factors for an efficient acute medical care unit
Three elements decide the efficiency of an acute medical care unit, and its success or failure. Paul Glynne and colleagues advise on what they are, and the difference the unit is making at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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SupplementsA blueprint for improving hepatitis C services in London
Hepatitis C is a growing problem in London but many sufferers are not getting the care they need. This special supplement, from Kosh Agarwal and colleagues’ at the London Joint Working Group for Substance misuse and Hepatitis C, outlines a blueprint for treating the disease.
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Comment'Healing our finances needs a long term, not short term, strategy'
The financial problems of the NHS are extremely serious – but more like anaemia than haemorrhage. It is the financial equivalent of a long term medical condition, says Nick Bosanquet.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow scenario planning can inspire creative approaches to innovation
Supporting and organising efforts to create and use innovative technologies is more difficult than ever but a recently developed set of future scenarios may help spur some creative planning, write Clive Savory, Joyce Fortune and Geoff Peters.