All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2009 – Page 3

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    NHS marketing

    2009-07-24T15:05:00Z

    In Hounslow a focused marketing campaign has helped ensure strong take-up rates of services at the area’s polyclinic.

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    High-risk medications

    2009-06-18T15:59:00Z

    The key intervention that Medway foundation trust has put into practice is the reducing harm from high-risk meds intervention. This aims to reduce harm from five high-risk medicines with a specific focus on insulin. 

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    Critical care interventions

    2009-06-18T15:48:00Z

    Colchester General Hospital signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008. One of the key interventions they have targeted is the ventilator care bundle, which is part of the critical care intervention that aims to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

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    Commissioner-provider divide

    2009-05-26T22:27:00Z

    Primary care trusts are facing some critical issues over the integrity of local services as they separate their commissioner and provider functions.

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    Carbon reduction

    2009-05-26T22:06:00Z

    Increasing hospital efficiencies is a pressing issue for trusts. In 2008, the Government passed the Climate Change Act, which aims to achieve an 80 per cent cut in CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2050.

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    Workforce planning

    2009-05-26T22:00:00Z

    Planning the healthcare workforce has traditionally centred on ensuring that the correct numbers of each type of specialty professional are trained and employed in order to deliver a defined area of service. 

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    Electronic patient records

    2009-05-26T21:49:00Z

    In the third quarter of 2009 Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust plans to go live with its new electronic patient record.

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    Customer care

    2009-05-26T21:45:00Z

    April 1 saw the introduction of a new unified system for complaints about health and social care. The new system is designed to be more streamlined and complainant focused with an emphasis on local resolution.

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    Health inequalities evaluation framework

    2009-05-26T21:40:00Z

    In September 2008, NHS Westminster commissioned Shared Intelligence and Gillian Granville Associates to develop an evaluation framework. The purpose was to shape the development and delivery of the health inequalities and health promotion programmes, and build the local evidence base of effectiveness.

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    Equal pay

    2009-05-26T21:26:00Z

    Any trust involved in the NHS equal pay litigation will need to act with far greater haste if they want to avoid costly appeal hearings. 

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    Continuing care

    2009-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Helping patients settle happily into the right long-term care setting is a key dimension of health and social care. Getting it wrong means needier patients, angry families, and spiralling costs.