All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 7
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NHS Leadership
The NHS struggles to measure one of the most important factors driving trust performance – leadership.
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Mental health response to disasters
Following disasters, UK survivors’ psychosocial needs are looked after by local authorities, possibly supplemented, since 2005, by a multi-agency “humanitarian assistance centre”. These centres come under the remit of the humanitarian assistance unit at the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport. People with acute mental health problems are treated by ...
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Hospital capacity planning
Bedford Hospital Trust is a 450 bed district general hospital within NHS East of England.Over the last few years the trust has performed well against most operational targets but was operating in an environment of a recurrent financial deficit of £12m.
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Doctors' views on the NHS IT programme
If politicians listened more to doctors about the use of IT in healthcare progress could be smoother, says Dr Tim Ringrose
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Re-basing PMS contracts
NHS Kensington and Chelsea’s director of primary care shares key learning about the PCT’s negotiating framework.
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Safeguarding children
If NHS organisations are serious about improving safeguarding practice, they must invest in developing the leadership skills of frontline staff.
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Contestability and choice
The urgent need to tackle the fiscal deficit may be the catalyst for an historic turning point in re-designing NHS services to suit personal needs.
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Social marketing planning guide
This week the National Social Marketing Centre launches its Social Marketing Planning Guide and Toolbox, designed to ensure that new and experienced social marketing practitioners can feel confident that they have the tools to implement an effective behaviour change or social marketing initiative.
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Capacity planning in rheumatology day units
A comparison of the administration regimens for two rheumatoid arthritis drugs across three hospital day units has highlighted an opportunity for substantial time savings for healthcare providers and patients.
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Virtual consultations
Virtual ward rounds and guidance in medical therapies have revolutionised patient care at Frimley Park Foundation Trust.
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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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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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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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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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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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NHS asset management
Karen Conneely outlines the need for a single integrated asset register.
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Lean in radiology
Using lean to make an ongoing difference, achieve targets and improve staff morale
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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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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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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.