All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 8
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Low clinical priority procedures
This article describes how a primary care trust’s low clinical priority procedures were implemented by a clinical health psychologist working across primary and acute settings.
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Swine flu planning
Good planning and preparation cannot remove the pressure of swine flu but it does put the NHS in the best possible position to respond, says Michael Caley
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Medication errors
Mark Thomson considers the role of newly available technologies in tackling patient safety
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Public health workforce development
Towards the Best Together is NHS East of England’s 10 year vision, developed through consultation with clinicians, other NHS staff, patients and the public, for the NHS and the region’s population of 5.6 million. It is based on an ambition to deliver the best health service in England.
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PCT membership schemes
NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland have developed a membership scheme which they believe is unique in its approach.
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Telehealth and telecare
With the UK’s ageing population and ever more effective treatments for long-term health conditions placing immense amounts of pressure on public sector budgets, the urgency to deliver more-for-less has never been greater.
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Nursing standards
In September 2010 the Nursing and Midwifery Council launched their standards for pre-registration nursing education.
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HSJ KnowledgeMedicines management
A review in 2007 by the Healthcare Commission into effective medicines management showed that 92% of mental health service users contacted had taken medicines.
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International recruitment
With a shortage of healthcare staff in the UK, overseas-trained professionals play a vital role in the NHS.
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Safer packaging in healthcare
Patients given medication, either over the counter or via prescription, need to know the facts about what they are taking.