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Mobile devices can reinvigorate frontline staff by giving them more time to focus on patient care Recent figures released by the Royal College of Nursing suggest that on average British nurses spend 17.3% of their time on paperwork and clerical tasks instead of caring for patients. This rounds-up to...
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Cost-effective, person-centred, co-ordinated care requires support for local health systems so they can deliver the right care in the right settings, and develop new ways of working In recent years, the health and social care sectors have both faced a series of unprecedented challenges. These have included...
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How can the NHS move forward from the current situation where it is besieged by the Francis report and cuts? Post the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the economic climate, providing affordable and safe healthcare is now one of the biggest challenges we face. The NHS is always changing and over time...
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Mayur Lakhani has been a GP for 21 years and is always on the lookout for ways of improving quality in healthcare I feel enormously privileged to be able to do what I do: combining my job as a GP in Leicestershire with my role as chair of a charity, the National Council for Palliative Care which spearheads...
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The Healthy Living Pharmacy Pathfinder programme delivers a range of health and wellbeing services The Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) concept is relatively new, with Portsmouth developing the initiative in 2010. It was not a coincidence that HLPs started in Portsmouth — health in Portsmouth is generally...
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Good communication between clinical commissioning groups, patients and member practices is essential from the outset Next week the NHS Confederation , supported by NHS Clinical Commissioners , is launching Reflections on a Decade of Commissioning, which looks at the experiences, difficulties and achievements...
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A late discharge summary – typical, it seems, of the perennial state of war between GPs and hospital doctors – makes a follow-up consultation meaningless, writes the Patient from Hell On 18 February, I complained that it had taken 14 days for a letter to arrive from a surgeon at my local hospital telling...
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Sir David Nicholson said the reforms are so big they can be seen from space. But will patients and staff notice anything different? This week, the government's NHS reforms came into force. NHS chief executive, Sir David Nicholson, said they are so big they can be seen from space . But on the frontline...
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St Helens and Knowsley is offering GP practices a service to digitise, store and give staff immediate access to patient records The NHS trust which claimed to be the first to become paperless a year ago is now helping GP practices to do the same. St Helens and Knowsley teaching hospitals NHS trust in...
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Experts suggest the government may have launched NHS Property Services with an intention to sell it off in future NHS reforms will result in less local flexibility to manage NHS surplus property, competition between centralised bodies managing NHS estates and concern by private sector investors that...
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A social enterprise is helping commissioners take a new approach and involve patients more in the process Health shouldn't be about numbers. It should be about people. To fundamentally change health outcomes, we need to change the way we commission. I set up Georgina Craig Associates (GCA) – a social...
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Social media has the potential to improve communication between healthcare professionals and patients — but it also creates ethical issues. Where should the line be drawn? I love Twitter, some would say I'm addicted! To date I've tweeted more than 30,500 times. As a GP, I think it is an excellent...
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Too few women are on CCG boards – meaning they don't properly represent the workforce or the local population Soul singer James Brown sang It's a Man's Man's Man's World and 40 years later it's hard to argue that things have changed among the senior ranks of the NHS. The current...
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With the clock ticking to the launch of CCGs, Richard Vize looks at the challenges they face Many clinical commissioning group leaders will need to see their GP in the next few weeks. The pressure they are now under, just days away from assuming their new powers, is immense. Even for the 43 CCGs the...
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As clinical commissioning groups prepare to take over from primary care trusts, Sanjay Tanday sets out how Nice can help them deliver clinically and cost effective services The Health and Social Care Act 2012 set out a new role for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) in producing quality...