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NHS Improvement lead on pathology consolidation spoke at HSJ webinar

The head of pathology consolidation at NHS Improvement, who is leading on work to create 29 networks across England, spoke at a recent HSJ webinar.

HSJ Awards 2016: Acute sector innovation

Judges said: “A significant problem is being addressed here in a very practical way.”

HSJ Awards 2016: CCG and local authority integrated commissioning for carers

Judges praised the “clear demonstration of how a collaborative, sustainable intervention works”.

HSJ Awards 2016: Clinical Commissioning Group of the Year

Judges hailed the CCG’s maturity and “strong partnership approach”.

HSJ Awards 2016: Chief executive of the year

HSJ Awards 2016 - Chief executive of the year NHS Confederation Sponsored by NHS Confederation Marianne Griffiths - Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust, formed by a merger in ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Clinical leader of the year

HSJ Awards 2016 - Clinical leader of the year Dr Peter Lachman - Royal College of Paediatrics and child health Dr Peter Lachman is the national clinical lead for the SAFE programme, which aims to reduce ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Clinical research impact

HSJ Awards 2016: Compassionate patient care

HSJ Awards 2016 - Compassionate patient care Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation Trust - Hospitals at home: CAMHS eating disorder service A two-day course was created to teach parents skills to help their children overcome eating disorders. ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Enhancing care by sharing data and information

Judges said the “low cost” scheme was already showing “high levels of usage”.

HSJ Awards 2016: Improved partnerships between health and local government

Judges said they were “really impressed” with the commitment to partnership working.

HSJ Awards 2016: Improving care with technology

HSJ Awards 2016: Improving care with technology System C logo RGB high res jan 15 Sponsored by System C Healthcare Invatech Health - Transforming medicines management in care homes Invatech Health worked with ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Improving environmental and social sustainability

Judges hailed a “fabulous, integrated approach across geographies and agencies”.

HSJ Awards 2016: Improving outcomes through learning and development

HSJ Awards 2016: Improving outcomes through learning and development Aneurin Bevan University Health Board - Living Well Living Longer Programme People were invited on geographical and clinical grounds to attend 45-minute appointments to assess their risk ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Innovation in mental health

HSJ Awards 2016: Innovation in mental health Humber Foundation Trust - Yorkshire and Humber Veterans Outreach Service This service provides a single point for military veterans and their families to make contact with mental health services ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Most effective adoption and diffusion of best practice

HSJ Awards 2016: Most effective adoption and diffusion of best practice Nhs england logo Sponsored by NHS England - New care models programme Belfast Health and Social Care Trust – Reaching Out – ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Patient safety

HSJ Awards 2016: Patient safety GS 1 jpg Sponsored by GS1 Inclusion, South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust - Nalxone: Increasing awareness, saving lives Inclusion – formed as part of South Staffordshire ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Provider trust of the year

HSJ Awards 2016: Provider trust of the year Celesio Sponsored by Celesio East London Foundation Trust A strategy of being clinician led, management partnered and service user driven has seen East London Foundation ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Rising star

Judges were impressed by her “inspirational” style.

HSJ Awards 2016: Services redesign

HSJ Awards 2016: Services redesign Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust - Transforming acute mental health care in Sheffield Sheffield Heath and Social Care Foundation Trust overhauled the way it delivered mental health services in ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Specialist service redesign

Judges hailed the “simple, effective redesign” and the passion and compassion shown.

HSJ Awards 2016: Staff engagement

HSJ Awards 2016: Staff engagement MiP Sponsored by Managers in Partnership University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust - The happy app: real-time staff feedback to improve staff engagement and quality of care delivered University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust designed an interactive online feedback tool after ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Using technology to improve efficiency

HSJ Awards 2016: Using technology to improve efficiency de Poel healthcare Sponsored by de Poel Healthcare University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust - My medical record A system of shared electronic records was developed ...

HSJ Awards 2016: Workforce

HSJ Awards 2016: Workforce NHS Professionals Sponsored by NHS Professionals London Ambulance Service Trust – No ordinary challenge – increasing mentoring capacity by introducing training stations Needing to recruit 700 clinicians in a ...

HSJ Awards 2016: EU Award

HSJ Awards 2016 EU Staff Award winners NHS Employers logo Sponsored by NHS Employers Jaime Puente, a staff grade doctor at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, was rewarded for his work ethic and upbeat manner as well as his skills. Luminita Georgescu, ...

HSJ100 2016: The list in full

Simon Stevens tops the 2016 list of the most influential people in health.

HSJ100 2016: How it was judged

The HSJ100 seeks to measure power and influence in the English NHS and health policy until September 2017.

Assuring your major digital solution: six ways to avoid failure

Steering your way around common errors in the design of asurance arrangements is the best way to deliver a happy IT project

Supplement: Patient safety back to the drawing board

Misunderstanding of what ‘human factors’ means often leads organisations to try to change their people rather than the processes

Sepsis faces a new front

Technology is helping clinicians to detect sepsis earlier, something which is key to combating this often undetected killer

Clouds, silver linings and Storm Desmond

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay had been prepared for emergencies but Storm Desmond tested the organisation to its limits

Fear of litigation must never be a roadblock to transparency

Legal processes must never get in the way of supporting staff, reducing risks to patients and doing the right thing

Let patient experience take centre stage

Much needs to be done to bring patient experience to the forefront of the agenda

Time to nurture better mental healthcare services

More government funding promised to increase specialist mental healthcare for mothers in the perinatal period is just part of the action required

Mobilising the NHS’s hidden army

Interim report of HSJ and Serco’s Inquiry into Maximising the Contribution of Non-Clinical NHS Staff

Maximising the Contribution of NHS Non-Clinical Staff: Taking in the bigger picture

Asking all the important questions to face challenges and focus on issues of the non-clinical workforce, for leaders and organisations alike

Maximising the Contribution of NHS Non-Clinical Staff: The forgotten 500,000

Conversation about the future of the NHS tends to neglect the army of non-clinical staff. HSJ and Serco’s roundtable looked at how things could be made different

HSJ Top Chief Executives 2016

HSJ’s third annual list celebrates the NHS leaders whose contributions and vision stand out in challenging times.

Sharon Lamb: Celebrating leadership when it is most needed

HSJ’s Top Chief Executives list is a fitting tribute to the crucial role of strong leadership across the NHS in challenging times, writes Sharon Lamb

Targeting cancer without the silos

Nic Paton reports on an LGC & HSJ roundtable, sponsored by Macmillan Cancer Support

Survey: are we truly going paperless?

An HSJ survey captures the progress of the digital revolution in the NHS and takes a close look at what is really lacking. By Claire Read

The use of temporary clinical staff in the NHS – HSJ workforce investigation main report

The NHS has an urgent need to reduce its £3bn plus dependency on temporary agency staff. This investigation explores the causes and looks for possible solutions

Roundtable: Jeremy Hunt's HSJ annual lecture debated

CCG ratings dominated the headlines after Jeremy Hunt’s HSJ annual lecture – but experts who convened to discuss its implications were far more interested in his vision of powerful patients, reports Claire Read

How to spot a good app

Tricky but essential - the job of evaluating the many health apps on the market

Scanning for savings with asset management

Understanding the importance of assets

HSJ100 2015

Who’s up, who’s down and who’s new in our list of the biggest movers and shakers in health?

HSJ Awards 2015: Special recognition awards

This year HSJ has chosen two extraordinary recipients for the Special Recognition Award for their dedication and outstanding contribution to patient safety in the NHS.

HSJ Awards 2015: Acute sector innovation

With both the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer leading to related harm for many of the 40,000 men diagnosed in the UK each year, University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust set about changing the way it dealt with suspected cases.

HSJ Awards 2015: Acute, community and/or primary care services redesign

More than 700 breaches of the four-hour target to see, treat, admit or discharge emergency department patients occurred at The Dudley Group Foundation Trust in May 2014.

HSJ Awards 2015: Workforce

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust uses the Gateshead College led Project Choice initiative to offer supported internships to people with learning difficulties or disabilities, and those with autism.

HSJ Awards 2015: Board leadership

Led by the same chief executive for more than a decade, Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust this year opened what it said was the first specialist emergency care hospital in the UK.

HSJ Awards 2015: CCG commissioning for carers

A range of initiatives has seen the number of identified carers in Surrey grow by more than 50 per cent in two years – to 22,000 in 2014.

HSJ Awards 2015: Clinical research impact

Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust aimed to raise the profile of research in mental health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

HSJ Awards 2015: Compassionate patient care

In 2014, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust – which looks after prison healthcare in Northern Ireland – began engaging prisoners in serious adverse incident reviews.

HSJ Awards 2015: Enhancing care by sharing data and information

One in five patients has problems with their medicine following discharge from hospital, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

HSJ Awards 2015: Improved partnerships between health and local government

The Leeds Intelligence Hub was created to integrate local data from the fields of health and care.

HSJ Awards 2015: Improving care with technology

An electronic physiological surveillance system developed by Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has been credited with saving 769 lives at two hospitals in a single year.

HSJ Awards 2015: Improving environmental and social sustainability

The size of the Green Impact Awards scheme run by University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust has doubled since January 2014.

HSJ Awards 2015: Improving outcomes through learning and development

This Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance funded post graduate programme, run in partnership with the University of Hertfordshire, the South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust and representatives from local hospitals, has improved paramedics’ knowledge and skills.

HSJ Awards 2015: Innovation in mental health

The Time 2 Talk pilot project used drama, film making, teaching and peer support to tackle the issue of mental ill health.

HSJ Awards 2015: Patient safety

With a hip fracture mortality rate of 12 per cent in 2012-13, West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust set out to redesign the pathway.

HSJ Awards 2015: Primary care innovation

Life expectancy for both men and women in Halton is below the national average, while people in the borough are living a greater proportion of their lives with an illness or health problem that limits their daily activities.

HSJ Awards 2015: Specialised services redesign

The Walton Centre Foundation Trust played a key role in the creation of a network for rehabilitation services, which launched in 2013.

HSJ Awards 2015: Staff engagement

East London Foundation Trust received the joint highest staff engagement score of any mental health trust in the 2014 NHS staff survey.

HSJ Awards 2015: Using technology to improve efficiency

From two large inner city practices coming together to look at how they could share knowledge and drive up quality of primary care, the Modality Partnership has grown within seven years to 13 health centres across Sandwell and Birmingham serving 75,000 patients.

HSJ Awards 2015: Rising star

Jonathan Evans was described by Royal Devon and Exeter Trust as a “highly motivated and inspirational” trainee.

HSJ Awards 2015: Clinical leader of the year

Dr Beverly Oates has been clinical leader for endoscopy at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust for 10 years.

HSJ Awards 2015: Chief executive of the year

Sheena Cumiskey has won praise from a range of distinguished figures for how she carries out her work.

HSJ Awards 2015: Most effective adoption and diffusion of best practice

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust worked with North of Tyne Local Pharmaceutical Committee on a patient referral system linking hospitals with local pharmacies. This was designed to reduce the level of patients having problems with medicine after discharge from hospital.