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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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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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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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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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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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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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Safer packaging in healthcare
Patients given medication, either over the counter or via prescription, need to know the facts about what they are taking.
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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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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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Nursing standards
In September 2010 the Nursing and Midwifery Council launched their standards for pre-registration nursing education.
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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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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.