All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 5
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HSJ KnowledgeWaiting times in glaucoma care
There are approximately 500,000 patients in England with glaucoma or a related condition (for example, ocular hypertension) who require 1 million hospital eye service appointments each year. Indeed, it has been calculated that one third of all HES appointments relate to glaucoma.
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HSJ KnowledgeDesign around patients
Unsuitable or inadequate in-patient accommodation for people experiencing a mental illness will limit a service’s ability to help people recover.
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HSJ KnowledgeHealth trainers
Since 2006 the NHS Health Trainer scheme has been working with the aim of supporting positive lifestyle changes in local communities.
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HSJ KnowledgeBank and agency quality improvement project
NHS organisations must now rise to the challenge of improving patient care while safely reducing costs.
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HSJ KnowledgeManaging costs
Managing costs may seem like a daunting task, but adopting some simple measures will reap serious long-term rewards, says Debjani Duncan
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HSJ KnowledgeTotal Place
Total Place is rapidly becoming an issue that public sector managers cannot avoid if they are seen to be addressing the pressures of financial constraint over the next few years. However, the Total Place project is one which raises potential concerns as well as opportunities.
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HSJ KnowledgePatient level costing
PLC data is a critical tool for trusts looking to optimise their performance and ensure best use of available funding and resources.
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HSJ KnowledgeJoint commissioning in London
Consumers of health and social care increasingly demand high quality care, expect choice, personalised services and seamless provision.
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HSJ KnowledgeDecommissioning homeopathy
The parliamentary Science and Technology Committee completed its report into homeopathy in February 2010, concluding that it should not be provided on the NHS.
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Patient engagement
The NHS needs a strategy for shared decision-making with patients, here we set out why, for whom, and some evidence for what works.
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HSJ KnowledgeAnkle fracture management
As clinicians we have an obligation to review our practice and strive to provide high quality care for all.
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Seven rules of engagement
There is widespread non-compliance within the NHS, to race relations legislation designed to promote equality and equitable engagement. This is obviously not a systematic and purposeful strategy, but instead underlines the difficulty of engaging black and minority ethnic groups in health and wellbeing initiatives, when the huge proportion of managers ...
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Resolving NHS complaints
Complaints about treatment and care are inevitable, but involving the Independent Complaints Advocacy Service in the process can help make a real difference to all concerned.
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Reporting on incidents
The length of reports into critical incidents could be a barrier to communicating the valuable lessons buried inside them.
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Melanoma diagnosis
Rates of melanoma are increasing faster than any other common cancer and getting the diagnosis right is a real challenge for GPs.
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Job search tips
Taking the time to refine your CV for each application and then properly preparing for the interview will go a long way in securing you the job that you deserve.
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Developing clinical leaders
The quality of management and leadership remains the single biggest factor as to whether or not organisations succeed, and nowhere more so than an institution as large as the NHS.
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Lean thinking in the NHS
Despite having been in the service improvement business for years, I choose now to finally really get my head around “lean thinking” as inspired by Taiichi Ohno’s work on the Toyota production system.
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Out of hours care
This report summarises the methodology and the outcome of a pilot project designed to reduce the number of elderly patients admitted to hospital from nursing homes. It suggests that enhanced out of hours care by GPs can improve the experience of patients (and their relatives) and reduce costs by limiting ...
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Carbon reduction
The Carbon Reduction Commitment is a mandatory, auction-based emissions trading scheme, which came into effect on 1 April 2010.