All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2009 – Page 2
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Distraction and patient safety
I believe that distraction is one of the most powerful factors in errors and harm to patients in a hospital. To improve patient safety we need to be alert and watch out for distraction so we do not miss a trick in patient care.
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Career development
In the calls made for an increase in the quantity, quality and capability of clinical leaders there is a fundamental challenge. How to bridge the gap between clinical training and developing clinical leadership capacity for the future?
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Obesity
Liverpool, like many UK cities, has seen a significant rise in obesity in recent years. In the city, an estimated 40 per cent of the adult population is overweight and 20 per cent obese. It is estimated that obesity results in over 130,000 sick days every year in Liverpool.
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Infection control
Patient Safety is about working together day in, day out, 365 days a year. It requires hard work and commitment to the cause, with each individual playing a vital role in preventing errors being made.
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Patient safety interventions
The University Hospitals of Leicester trust was one of the first large acute trusts to sign up to Patient Safety First in June 2008. Representatives from the hospital heard about the campaign from networking events they had attended and since they had recently introduced a new patient safety strategy, ...
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AIDS prevention
The Newham and Tower Hamlets HIV/AIDS Prevention Partnership is a joint initiative funded by NHS Newham and NHS Tower Hamlets.
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Mental health review tribunals
Health and social care managers now face new rules on the disclosure of information in mental health review tribunals.
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Carbon reduction commitment
NHS energy use costs £400 million annually and results in around one million tonnes of carbon emissions.
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Modular wards
Construction in healthcare is a precision business. Its role is to support the industry’s primary function – to deliver the best available healthcare services to patients. New developments and continual refurbishment are all important in handling the demands on patient care, but can often present a number challenges, not least ...
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Workforce planning
The NHS Workforce Review Team is committed to moving forward the national agenda on workforce strategy and planning. A growing concern within the NHS has been how to introduce greater academic rigour to workforce planning and research carried out around the healthcare workforce in the UK.
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E-learning and the hygiene code
Health and social care providers have worked steadily to improve standards, but many still have a long way to go. According to the Care Quality Commission one in five NHS trusts does not comply with at least one of the three standards relating to the hygiene code. Louise Pasterfield examines ...
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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.
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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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Waiting times
Sustaining and bettering 18 weeks is one of the biggest successes of the NHS in the last decade.
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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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Asset management
Karen Conneely outlines the need for a single integrated asset register.
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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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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 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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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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