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The Leeds Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides services to 572,000 adults, across 62 sites in the Leeds area. The people under its care are vulnerable and the Trust strives to provide the best possible care and support to them. Continue reading Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust Installs Observer Suite for Preventative Network Health
The cost-saving consultancy, who manage the supply of agency workers to several leading care organisations, rebuked the claims made by the Tories, suggesting that temporary workers were crucial during 2009 to keep services running. Continue reading NHS spending on temporary workers far from wasteful' – de Poel
The huge challenges facing the public sector over the next few years to cut spending will regrettably mean redundancies for many public sector workers. Faced with this painful course of action, organisations of all shapes and sizes from local authorities, NHS health trusts and Government agencies will want to make it as painless as possible for all concerned, and do what they can to smooth the path to a new job for their ex-employees. Continue reading How online outplacement will help in tough cost-cutting times
It is doubtful whether any industry has seen more change in recent years than healthcare. Arif Ahmed, Managing Director of ikonami, examines the impact of these changes and how HR and Learning & Development (L&D) professionals in the NHS can better manage organisational development. Continue reading Organisational development in the NHS
Lean methodologies that have revolutionised manufacturing are achieving impressive results in hospitals. Many healthcare managers are using the principles, systems and tools of Lean to stretch limited resources, improve the quality of patient care and safety, eliminate errors, reduce waste, cut delays and reduce the length of patient stays. Continue reading The proven Lean route to healthcare improvement
VENDOR-NEUTRAL consultancies offering low-risk fee structures may be the compromise between long-term sustainability and the need for immediate savings in the NHS- de Poel. Continue reading Vendor-neutral consultancies with low-risk fee structures are compromise the NHS needs
COST-SAVINGS, increased human resources support and reduced bureaucracy, have been recognised by the NHS as positive results of outsourcing recruitment processes. A new scheme launched by NHS Employers is one of several offering organisations the chance to save millions of pounds by taking on some of their recruitment hassles and CRB checks, freeing up money, time and resources for other things. Continue reading NHS recognises value of recruitment outsourcing
One of the UK’s most prominent stop smoking campaigners has joined Knowsley Health & Wellbeing to head up its work in helping locals to kick their smoking habit. Continue reading Knowsley appoints Christine to push smoking pledge
How the UK manages its medical data has been the subject of heated debate recently, and the more solutions that are suggested, the more tangled the issue seems to become. In the last few months Christine Connelly’s NHS National Programme for IT has turned out to be an idealised and unrealistic project, and the Digital Britain Report has recommended a Government cloud computing approach to share information. Continue reading National Programme for IT
The NHS Borders cover a large rural area in Southern Scotland. The Trust is centred on Borders General Hospital, Roxburghshire, which employs over 1,000 people and serves as a community hospital for the central Borders, with a catchment of some 100,000 resid Continue reading NHS Borders
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust is an Acute Hospital Trust based at Newham General Hospital (Plaistow), with some outpatient services located at the Shrewsbury Health (Forest Gate) and the Appleby (Canning Town) Centres. Continue reading Newham NHS Trust improves efficiency with outsourced transcription service through Dictate IT
Diabesity – the increase in obesity-led type-2 diabetes- is demanding ever greater resources from health services globally. Whilst the NHS objective is to increase the management of such conditions in the community, the serious complications associated with diabetes result in numerous hospital admissions and out-patient appointments, whilst also reducing patients’ quality of life. Continue reading Diabesity – Consuming Excessive NHS Resources
Dr Alex Horne, medical director at North East London NHS Foundation Trust examines why high quality business intelligence is critical to meeting the unique set of challenges being faced by Mental Health Trusts and to creating future clinical leaders Continue reading Intelligent Clinical Leadership in Mental Health
As we head into 2010 the healthcare sector is facing many challenges. Not only are budgets being cut but many institutions are faced with growing customer numbers. This means more customer data to manage. Sophisticated technology is also adding to the problem. Continue reading Is the healthcare industry entering the perfect storage storm?
Many agency nurses, who are an essential function of the NHS, are often treated as -second class citizens- something that needs to change to ensure maximum standards of care. That’s the message from the nurses we’ve surveyed at Arrows Group. Continue reading Agency nurses – whats the problem?
NHS Trusts have come under increasing pressure to improve the management of several £100m of assets, from medical equipment onwards, in order to reduce spiralling litigation claims and deliver far greater accountability. But with information stored not only by Finance within the capital asset register but also duplicated across Medical Equipment and Estates departments, attaining a single view of asset history, including location, maintenance and value is impossible. Continue reading Maximising Asset Value in the NHS
AS the world of primary medical care advances into the 21st century, few companies have done more to change the face of the industry than Telehealth Solutions Limited. The progressive firm, established in 2006, has made it its mission to provide a remote monitoring service for patients across the UK. Continue reading REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING IS THE FUTURE
The public perception is that out-of-hours healthcare is provided to the same standard as daytime GP services. Out-of-hours care is often delivered by private companies that do not have to adhere to the same standards of training, competence, scrutiny and risk management as NHS organisations. Arif Ahmed, co-founder and Director of ikonami, examines why private providers have become so prevalent and reveals potential strategies to improve standards of care and to bridge the patient care gap. Continue reading Raising standards in out-of-hours healthcare
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