All Health Service Journal articles in Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010 – Page 9
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Private equity in healthcare
Over the last two years the number of private equity investments in the UK has fallen by over 50 per cent, due mainly to an absence of debt and the high returns required by investors.
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Competitive commissioning
Among the rapid changes facing the NHS at the moment is the increasing exposure of services to competition by commissioners in order to secure maximum value for money.
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Clinical human factors
Human factors are what shape our behaviour in the context of the systems of which we are a part.
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QIPP challenges
QIPP is a cornerstone of the government’s drive to make the NHS take a more preventative and patient-centred approach.
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NHS bullying
Dr Malcolm Lewis, Senior Lectuerer in Health Service Management at UCLAN, gives his opinion on the issue of workplace bullying within the NHS and reflects on the ‘depressing picture’ his research reveals (DAWN, 2010).
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Competion law and the health bill
The health sector needs to brace itself for a severe competitive shock, with the anticipated Health Services Bill expected to give Monitor the power to apply the Competition Act 1998 to the provision of health services and adult social care across England.
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Workforce efficiency assessment
Managing staff working patterns in order that there are enough staff to do a job safely whilst providing high quality care to patients without over-staffing is a complex business.
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Wardens in sheltered housing
It is rare for sheltered housing to hit the headlines, but the furore over the decision by many providers to remove resident wardens from existing schemes has made front page news.
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Representation in disciplinary hearings
The Court of Appeal has ruled that doctors and dentists employed by NHS bodies in England are entitled to legal representation at disciplinary hearings. The court says the right also extends to representation in capability and ill-health proceedings.
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Health innovation and education
A recent policy reform by the Department of Health heralded a re-think on the way it promoted innovation and education for NHS staff.
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Leadership lessons
Chris Roebuck reports on the views from the NHS Employers conference
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Patient experience
It’s official. The NHS has discovered “the patient experience” and it has moved from a position of inconsequential “soft data”, usually relegated to the “touchy-feely” domain, to being a hard reality at executive and policy levels.
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Smokeless tobacco
The use of smokeless tobacco products (which are often unlabelled, unregulated, and occasionally advertised as having health benefits) is widespread within South Asian communities in the UK, but is inadequately addressed.
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Childhood obesity
In some London boroughs a third of children leaving primary school at the age of 11 are overweight or obese. We know overweight children are much more likely to become obese adults, so this major public health problem must be tackled early. The government’s child obesity public service agreement target ...
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Redundant equipment
If you have old hospital equipment to dispose of, the question is what to do next. While in the past, hospital managers paid to recycle surplus items or returned them to manufacturers to refurbish and sell on, there is now an emphasis on reusing equipment.
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Independent contractor performance
Central Lancashire has a large number of highly skilled independent contractors. However, when concerns are raised it is important that investigations are carried out in a fair and open environment.
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Smoking in pregnancy
For some time, government policy has backed the need to tackle smoking in pregnancy, especially among teenagers and those who are less well off. England’s current target is to reduce the prevalence of smoking at delivery to 15 per cent by 2010.
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GP-led services
GPs will increasingly call the shots about how and where money is spent in the local health economy, writes Conor Burke