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The million dollar question - how does the NHS increase efficiency and enforce savings whilst raising quality?

“The NHS is facing the most significant financial challenge in its history. Delivering improved quality and meeting growing demand for healthcare at a time of unprecedented financial constraints will present the most significant leadership challenge...

Published Fri, Aug 6 2010 13:25 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, NICE, NHS Trusts, NHS White Paper, high quality NHS, saving money in NHS
Is there any silver lining for the NHS?

After the publication of the revised 2010/11 NHS Operating Framework last week, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said, ‘ The NHS will begin to make immediate efficiency savings by tackling escalating management costs in order to meet the increasing...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 11:40 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, quality, productivity, patient safety, NHS Trusts, NHS budgets, NHS Operating Framework
A High-Performing NHS?

As the General Election approaches, according to the BBC website, the NHS has emerged as one of the most important issue for voters . Published on 11 th April, the King’s Fund has produced a report, ‘ A High-Performing NHS’ ? assessing...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 11:33 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, NPSA, improving quality, patient safety incidents, general election, NHS performance, patient safety alerts
Getting the measure of Quality

Quality has been at the centre of recent NHS policy, and the NHS Next Stage Review highlighted the role of information and measurement in supporting quality improvement, particularly in relation to patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience...

Published Wed, Mar 31 2010 13:56 by StuartEmslie

Tags: NHS, patient safety, Quality Improvement, King's Fund, clinical effectiveness, measuring quality
If the NHS is to ‘cut its cloth’, what are the implications?

Following this week’s Budget Report, HSJ has reported that NHS spending will be cut by £500m over the next 4 years, whilst today’s Independent states the NHS needs to find ‘massive savings.’ With recent high profile topics...

Published Thu, Mar 25 2010 15:27 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, patient safety, Quality Improvement, NHS budgets, NHS Quality Strategy, NHS 5 year plan, Budget Report 2010
Patient Safety and NHS Trusts – Does the future look bright?

After the publication of a report on 16 th February by Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) - Adding Insult to Injury - NHS failure to implement patient safety alerts , there has been a lot of media attention in the last couple of days around this...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 13:19 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, patient safety, NPSA, NHS Trusts, CQC, patient safety incidents
Should quality goals determine financial strategies within the NHS?

A recent article in Health Service Journal (HSJ) highlighted the contrast between achieving quality and financial goals within the healthcare sector. The article illustrated how the recent media coverage about hospitals under performing and their patient...

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 16:53 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, quality, patient safety, NHS budgets
Patient safety: Mandatory reporting of harm and death during treatment from April 2010

According to an article in The Observer (Sunday 6 December 2009) ministers have decided to impose a legally binding duty of openness on the NHS in England in a bid to improve patient safety. From April 2010, all trusts in England – hospitals, primary...

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 9:20 by StuartEmslie

Tags: healthcare, NHS, safety, governance, NPSA, Observer, death, treatment, harm, patient
Risk Management - creating a culture of safety within the NHS

In today’s Health Service Journal, an article on risk management within the healthcare sector states the best approach to risk management is to establish a safety culture throughout an organisation. Risk and Safety Management within a hospital is...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2009 17:05 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, WHO, Surgical Safety Checklist, patient safety, NPSA, NHS Trusts, Risk and Safety Management, NRLS
Draft regulations for registration system in England breathe new life into clinical governance

The new registration system for health and adult social care in England is described in a post below. Readers might like to note that the draft regulations that will, when finalised and published, set the legal standards framework for registration, require...

Published Sun, Nov 1 2009 8:22 by StuartEmslie

Tags: NHS, England, regulations, clinical governance, draft

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