All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 10
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Practice based commissioning
With the success of practice based commissioning high on the agenda of the Department of Health and the pivotal role PBC plays in underpinning world class commissioning, it is important for PCT provider arms to understand the potential impact of giving GP practices commissioning power.
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Dementia strategy
In the UK there are approximately 700,000 people with dementia. In 30 years, this number is expected to double.
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Leadership development
For a cluster of primary care trusts on Teesside (Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton on Tees Teaching PCT), developing their strategy for 2008/13 and preparing for world class commissioning assessment led to a change in their thinking about the nature of leadership and leadership development in their organisations.
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Carers and medical training
Michael Yousif looks at how carers’ experiences can be incorporated into psychiatric training
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Joint working with the pharmaceutical industry
Steve Williamson, Sean McGrath and Abbie Pound explore the importance of collaborative working between healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical industry - facilitated by medical education agencies - and what this might mean for patient care
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Patient safety interventions
Avril Lowery explains how Gateshead Health Foundation Trust has taken the guiding principle of Patient Safety First, to make patient safety the trust’s number one priority, and applied it to their own environment, creating an internal campaign that works for them.
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Care of deteriorating patients
Salford Royal Foundation Trust signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008 and is one of the trusts to implement the reducing harm from deterioration intervention.
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Patient safety strategy
Sarah Woolley explains how Heart of England Foundation Trust has put the Patient Safety First campaign into action.
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Cost cutting
As rising demand for services begins to clash with increasingly tight financial constraints, the NHS must plan now for impending 2011 funding restrictions.