All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2009
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Swine flu planning
With the possibility of a second, more serious wave of swine flu ahead, Ian Buchanan focuses on the work being done by hospices to prepare for an outbreak.
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Chlamydia screening
As chlamydia continues to prove a problem among young people, some PCTs are turning to more innovative methods to relate to them.
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Obesity challenge
As the obesity epidemic continues to gain weight, Liverpool tackles the problem head on.
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Staff health
Rachael Heenan discusses how to promote wellbeing among healthcare professionals.
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Patient experience
Philip Darbyshire considers the patient experience and how healthcare professional can empathise.
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Thromboprophylaxis
Clinical Leadership is called for in all sectors of patient care1. As practitioners, we are asked to step forward and lead change and use the NHS leadership and qualities framework to support our work2.
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Wound management
In order to achieve high quality care within a patient-centred service it is essential to explore new and innovative ways of working. Joint working between industry and a publicly funded healthcare service is one of a range of options available to meet the needs of patients and achieve clinical ...
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Practice leaders programme
The practice leaders programme was conceived early last year by the primary care task force of NHS Education South Central.
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Staff wellbeing
Strictly Come Dancing stars Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova used their creative talents to promote health and wellbeing in the workplace. The couple took centre stage to promote the launch of the NHS Barnsley staff support service’s ‘Live 4 Life’ campaign.
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Home births
Women used to give birth at home: in 1900s over 99 per cent of babies were born at home. However, as GPs and obstetricians persuaded women that giving birth in hospital was safer than at home the rate dropped to 1 per cent in the 1980s. Today the home birth ...
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Polysystems
GPs will increasingly call the shots about how and where money is spent in the local health economy, says Conor Burke
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Access to maternity care
In 2006 an exciting opportunity arose which enabled some innovative thinking to become a reality and the award winning Hackney Maternity Helpline was born.
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Mental health roadmap
The primary aim of world class commissioning is to improve the skills of primary care trusts to make them more effective commissioners. The 11 WCC competencies focus on the key areas required of PCTs, but some areas are inevitably more developed than others.
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Staff engagement
Ricardo Semler is a well-known businessman in Brazil. Back in the 1990s, when the Brazilian economy took a nosedive, he had to think about how his company, Semco, could survive.
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Mental health business intelligence
Dr Alex Horne examines why high quality business intelligence is critical to meeting the unique set of challenges being faced by mental health trusts
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Asset management
Karen Conneely outlines the need for a single integrated asset register.
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GP surgery sustainability
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a key issue for the NHS. This case study of the sustainability audit of a small GP surgery shows how this is affecting primary care providers by looking at three critical areas.
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Waiting times
Sustaining and bettering 18 weeks is one of the biggest successes of the NHS in the last decade.
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Operating theatre management
In 2007 we examined initiatives to improve throughput of operating theatres in a large teaching hospital, with 52 operating theatres each running at an estimated cost of £4800 per day, and performing 50-60,000 operations per year.
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Financial benchmarking tools
It may not be possible for primary care trusts to become cost efficient overnight, but healthcare actuaries are developing financial diagnostic tools to identify readily achievable cost savings and focus scarce resources in overstretched budgets to achieve the greatest return.