All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 3
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Quality improvement and cost reduction
Classic strategies for major corporate turnaround have always included, among others, quality improvement and cost reduction.
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Trauma service transformation
The Healthcare for London programme is carrying out a clinically driven service reconfiguration that will ensure world class care at all stages of the patient journey. The Healthcare for London major trauma team explains how they have tackled the challenge of centralising trauma care in the capital.
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Local breastfeeding support
Commissioning Local Breastfeeding Support Services, published in October last year by the Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families, aims to assist commissioners and primary care trusts in “providing coherent services that will promote breastfeeding and reduce inequalities”, as set out in Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures – ...
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Illness prevention
Since its redefinition in 1974 - before which it included local authority health departments - the NHS has never really taken on a significant preventative role. It is still focused on the treatment of acute illnesses.
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NHS careers
NHS Careers, the careers information service for the NHS in England, has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Launched in 1999 by the Department of Health to help fill nursing and midwifery vacancies, NHS Careers has evolved into a service supporting more than 350 different careers in the NHS via a ...
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Mental health in further education
The healthy further education steering group was launched in 2008 to meet the health needs of those studying and working in the further education sector.
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Local mental health services' links with universities
Each Thursday evening in the drama studios at York St John University, Out of Character, a theatre company made up of people who use mental health services, students and staff, meets to rehearse. Next door, theatre students and staff run a course that provides a broad introduction to theatre.
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Public involvement
5 Boroughs Partnership Trust is the first trust in the North West to use a “diary room” style booth with a video camera, where people can sit and give their views on the trust and mental health.
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Patient privacy and dignity
5 Boroughs Partnership Trust is taking a lead in ensuring that service users, carers and their relatives are given information about the facilities they can expect on wards. This takes the form of an information folder containing an information leaflet, ward-specific fact sheet and DVD.
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Healthy eating promotion
To increase consumption of fruit and vegetables, customer insight analysis was used to determine the best route for a mobile food store around Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust.
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Community rehabilitation
Chase Park Rehabilitation Centre was developed in response to the needs of clients with slow stream community rehabilitation and complex care requirements.
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COPD awareness
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the UK’s fifth biggest killer, each year causing more deaths than breast, prostate and bowel cancer. However, 2.8 million people are undiagnosed and unaware they have the progressive, possibly terminal disease.
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Lean in radiology
Using lean to make an ongoing difference, achieve targets and improve staff morale
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NHS asset management
Karen Conneely outlines the need for a single integrated asset register.
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Health politics
Politicians who get tangled up with healthcare usually end up regretting it. Ask Barack Obama. One day you have this dream of bringing medical coverage to 30 million of your unprotected fellow citizens. A year of drift, squabble and dodgy compromise later and your party is booted out in Massachusetts, ...
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Stakeholder management
Understanding the motivations and behaviours of those who influence and are affected by our major programmes is complicated, and never more so than in the NHS. With ineffective engagement of stakeholders regularly cited as a common cause of project failure in healthcare, stakeholder management is an important discipline to master.
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LINks and the retendering process
Advice for local involvement networks and their hosts as they prepare for the end of their three year contracts
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NHS targets vs patient needs
Government targets have led to real changes in the quality of NHS services, but national indicators are not sufficient to tell us whether performance against them actually affects the health of the local population.
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NHS workforce planning
Workforce planning is often described as more of an art than a science. Yet workforce planners are increasingly seeking out and deploying sophisticated scientific methods.
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Virtual consultations
Virtual ward rounds and guidance in medical therapies have revolutionised patient care at Frimley Park Foundation Trust.