Within healthcare, efficient and effective document management ensures that staff can access up-to-date information that is specific and relevant to them. This enables staff to follow the latest processes and procedures, which could enhance the quality of service delivery and patient care. In maintaining...

The Darzi report High Quality Care for All signalled a shift to better quality care being the main theme of NHS reforms in England. Consequently, quality will become an issue that will be at the centre of most systems of governance in the NHS. According to Jon Sussex and Adrian Towse, writing in the...

The cleanliness of most NHS hospitals in England is threatened by frequent invasions of rats, fleas, bedbugs, flies and cockroaches, a report claims. Figures released by the Conservatives show that 70% of NHS Trusts brought in the pest controllers at least 50 times between January 2006 and March 2008...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published the second edition of Social Value Judgements: Principles for the Development of NICE Guidance. The guidance describes the principles that NICE should follow in designing the processes it uses to develop its guidance and in...

The Health Service Journal is running a one day risk management conference on 15 October 2008 in Birmingham. Chaired by Patrick Keady, Chair of the IOSH Healthcare Group , the conference theme is ‘Identifying and mitigating healthcare risk.’ Planned conference presentations include: - Embedding a holistic...

Healthcare expert Stuart Emslie has created a white paper for Gael Ltd, which looks back at the progress made on key issues within the NHS, such as health and safety compliance, risk management and quality improvement. The paper examines how these issues have drawn little official attention in the NHS...

Health minister Lord Darzi is to announce plans for the next 10 years of England's NHS after a year-long consultation with patients and staff. His proposals are expected to focus on improving quality through financial incentives and performance data. The review also includes controversial proposals...

The government is to set out plans to speed up approval of drugs used in the National Health Service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) can take up to two years to make a decision but ministers want this cut to six months. Patients...

One thing it would be great to be able to do with q pulse is keep a track of their pay spine number and their approaching increment dates and gateways. Can this be considered for the future. KSF is a big thing for us in the NHS and q pulse seems a very logical wayb of managing competence / performance...

Hi Martin Thank you for your reply I am thinking of this from Two directions 1 - Staff members need to have records of their accidents in and around the lab i.e. needle stick injuries, cuts, trips breaks. also we need to log accidents that are major as IR1s as well - we do this as CA/PAs at the moment...