All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 6
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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 KnowledgeThe third sector post election
Mark Johnson assesses the post-election landscape for third sector and social enterprises delivering more health and social care services.
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Leadership and management training
The quality of management and leadership remains the single biggest factor as to whether organisations succeed or not.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe medical profession and the state
Things do not happen in isolation, nor can change be arbitrary. A full and contemporary understanding of today’s culture and attitudes requires an awareness of essential history.
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HSJ KnowledgeWorld class dental commissioning
A new model of dental commissioning, piloted by Bradford and Airedale primary care trust, is showing how a preventative care focus could help health managers achieve better long term health and improved outcomes for tax payers’ money.
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Internet security
A new generation of internet applications is making it easier for healthcare organisations to tap into the power of the internet to lower costs and improve productivity.
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HSJ KnowledgeNeurological care
The Neurological Alliance is chairing the main day of the HSJ’s conference, Delivering Patient Centred Neurological Services, in London this week.Clare Moonan and Katie Smith, chief executives of the Neurological Alliance, say that the Alliance has been a key partner in shaping this unique event which has a central theme ...
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HSJ KnowledgeEndodontic clinical audit
Each year NHS Bradford and Airedale organises a peer review process for dentists in the area and following an evaluation of the 08/09 process a decision was made to base the 09/10 peer review on a clinical topic.
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HSJ KnowledgeHealth trainers
Knowsley is a metropolitan borough on Merseyside with a population of just over 150,000 people.
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting to know your MP
As a retired hospital doctor, my work in the NHS was a huge advantage when I started as an MP, because I already knew many consultants and GPs, as well as managers of all the local health trusts.
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HSJ KnowledgeOutpatient experience
The Picker Institute Europe coordinated the national outpatients survey for the Care Quality Commission in 2009. This is a summary of the key findings.
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HSJ KnowledgePartnership working and the flu pandemic
The H1N1 pandemic never reached the intensity feared, but the emergency response set in place has strengthened partnership working.