All Your ideas and suggestions articles – Page 6
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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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Carbon reduction
The Carbon Reduction Commitment is a mandatory, auction-based emissions trading scheme, which came into effect on 1 April 2010.
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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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Information management services
When it comes to deciding when is the right time to outsourcing information management and IT services support, there are several issues that must be carefully considered.
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Sustainability and the NHS
The NHS enters 2010 with an enormous to do list, increasing pressures on budgets, the need to improve outcomes and a relentless drive for quality.
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Joint commissioning
Commissioning Support for London Accelerated Development Programme 2009
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Organ donation
Recent important Department of Health guidance on organ donation gives boards in England and Wales an excellent opportunity to receive up to date progress on donation activity in their trusts and to review how they can support a drive to further boost rates.
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Human rights in mental health
A new human rights based leadership programme is being developed with investment from SCIE and the support of the National Mental health Development Unit and University of Central Lancashire.
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Dementia and quality of life
Only 13 per cent of people believe a person with dementia can have a good quality of life at all stages of their condition according to Alzheimer’s Society research released in April.
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Adult spine services
New approaches in spine service at St Thomas’ Hospital have yielded impressive results.
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Nuisance and disturbance on NHS premises
According to the NHS Security Management Service there were 54,758 reported physical assaults against NHS staff in England in 2008/2009.
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Leadership for change
Martin Seligman, the leading figure in the positive psychology movement, has described Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as the most significant and powerful organisational intervention currently available.
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Clinical dashboards
Good quality information is known to be a driver of performance among clinical teams and vital to ensuring the right services and best possible care is provided to patients.
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Technology in the NHS
Margaret Parton explains how NHS teams are often supportive of implementing technology while the wider system is not
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Carbon Reduction Commitment
Dave Covell provides an update on the recently implemented Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme
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Self care planning
The financial downturn has led to a frenzy of activity to increase productivity at lower cost but improved quality. This is indeed a challenge for the NHS. Given the management of long term conditions in the NHS utilises 70 per cent of the expenditure in the NHS, a focused ...
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Chlamydia screening guide
Getting value for money from your chlamydia screening campaign requires careful consideraton.
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Randomised control trials
Randomised controlled trials often encounter problems in meeting recruitment targets, but insights from a recent successful trial can help future recruitment efforts.