Visit http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com for more rss feeds. http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/CoreCode/rss/rssdisplay.aspx en-gb Copyright http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com, 2020 Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:48:35 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 15 NHS England has published its People Plan for 2020-2021, along with its Our People Promise highlighting expectations from NHS leaders and colleagues. The new report, We are the NHS: People Plan 2020/21, sets out practical guidelines for employers and systems within the NHS, as well as action that NHS England and NHS improvement... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/we-are-the-nhs 420,2978,428,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/we-are-the-nhs Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:00:00 GMT From May/June 2020 edition Trish Stephenson, Head of Facilities Management Strategy, NHS Property Services (NHSPS) We are facing unprecedented times, both as a health service and as a nation. Organisations, charities and healthcare workers alike are adjusting to a ‘new normal’ – new training, role descriptions and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-property-services-remote-working 420,407,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-property-services-remote-working Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:45:00 GMT Evolution is crucial in any business and National Health Executive is no different. Long before Covid-19 even became a thought in the back of our minds, the team at NHE were looking at innovative ways to deliver its content to our audience in a more dynamic and responsive manner. We’re conscious to take the time to both protect the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhe-cleaner-greener-safer-roi-carbon 420,421,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhe-cleaner-greener-safer-roi-carbon Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:15:00 GMT As Covid-19 demands innovation from all businesses, Matt Parker looked to diversify his Beyondsome brand to support the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) which had been struggling with supply chain challenges during the outbreak. He spoke with NHE’s Matt Roberts about his efforts. Unlikely sources, unprecedented... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/diversifying-face-mask-beyondsome 420,413,408,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/diversifying-face-mask-beyondsome Mon, 18 May 2020 10:30:00 GMT Sean Hopkins, Head of Programmes and Technology for Employment Services, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) In a recent speech to the Health Tech Alliance, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, reiterated the role that all health professionals must play within the digital transformation of the NHS, stating... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-sbs-21st-century-nhs 420,416,417,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-sbs-21st-century-nhs Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:30:00 GMT Sponsored Content: TSI explain about respirator fit testing and infection prevention for hospital staff and healthcare workers, and how they can best support the healthcare industry The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. In this blogpost, we look at UK healthcare workers and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/tsi-portacount-respirator-fit-testing 420,2996,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/tsi-portacount-respirator-fit-testing Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:00:00 GMT Richard Peachey, HPMA Regional Committee Member and Employee Relations Consultant, CMP It’s not surprising that relationships within groups of senior hospital doctors and consultants can become fractious. The levels of pressure and stress combined with a sense of seniority - they’ve earned the right to be listened to - make... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/toxic-tribalism 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/toxic-tribalism Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:15:00 GMT Olivia Butterworth is Head of Public Participation for NHS England and NHS Improvement. This article first featured in the Jan/Feb issue of NHE. The NHS has long had a duty to involve ‘the public’. The discharge of this duty is often played out through set piece engagement and formal consultation processes. It’s not... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-improvement-driven-by-people 420,407,428,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-improvement-driven-by-people Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:45:00 GMT Dr Dale Webb FRSA, chief executive at National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society (NASS), explains why Aspiring to Excellence is important and how it links with our broader agenda Article first published in the NHE Jan/Feb 2020 edition Axial spondyloarthritis (axial SpA or AS for short) is a form of inflammatory arthritis that mainly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/aspiring-to-excellence-nass 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/aspiring-to-excellence-nass Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:00:00 GMT Richard Kerr BSc, MBBS, MS, FRCS is a Council Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and was Chair of the Commission on the Future of Surgery This article was first published in the NHE Jan/Feb 2020 edition It is less than two years since the Royal College of Surgeons of England submitted freedom of information requests to NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/axe-the-fax-bringing-about-the-end-of-the-outdated-hospital-machinery 420,2978,419,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/axe-the-fax-bringing-about-the-end-of-the-outdated-hospital-machinery Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:00:00 GMT Hardyal Dhindsa, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) lead for alcohol and substance misuse and PCC for Derbyshire, discusses the illegal theft and sale of medicines. It is recognised that illegal theft and sales of medicines is a significant issue not just for the UK but globally.  However, with the plethora of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/apcc-crack-down-communication 420,412,408,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/apcc-crack-down-communication Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:00:00 GMT Sam Ward, Deputy CEO and Director of Services, Royal Voluntary Service, explains why one year on from the Long Term Plan, NHS volunteers are more important than ever Last year, the NHS Long Term plan announced a commitment to double the number of volunteers in the NHS in the next ten years. With the NHS under increasing strain, including... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rvs-nhs-volunteers 420,428,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rvs-nhs-volunteers Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:00:00 GMT Words by Dean Royles and Kevan Taylor, who continue their regular contribution to NHE’s blog content. Kevan and Dean work in organisations and systems providing strategic support, advice and development. Every time the NHS goes through one of its many, many structural reorganisations, there is a renewed emphasis on the importance of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/leadership-development-dean-royles 420,421,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/leadership-development-dean-royles Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:15:00 GMT Keith Pearce, President of the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE), discusses improving access to echocardiography in primary care for structural heart diseases. The UK’s population is ageing. Statistics by the Office for National Statistics project in 50 years’ time there will be an additional 8.6 million people aged... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/awareness-accessibility-acceleration-echocardiography 409,420,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/awareness-accessibility-acceleration-echocardiography Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:45:00 GMT Managing Director of the NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP), Michael Pace, spoke with NHE’s Matt Roberts about the organisation’s recent transformation. The NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) is a non-profit membership organisation within the wider NHS which looks to provide business expertise to support... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-london-procurement-partnership 420,415,416,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-london-procurement-partnership Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:15:00 GMT National Health Executive’s Matt Roberts spoke with Whitney Crenna-Jennings, a senior researcher in mental health, wellbeing and inclusion at the Education Policy Institute (EPI) about their recently released CAMHS report.   Forming a key cornerstone of mental health provision in this country, access to children and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/camhs-children-adolescent-mental-health 420,413,414,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/camhs-children-adolescent-mental-health Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:00:00 GMT Source: NHE Jan/Feb 20 NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is continuing to ramp up its awareness campaign on the forthcoming law change around organ donation in England, targeting leaders and influencers in the NHS. The new legislation – scheduled for spring 2020 – will see the introduction of an 'opt out' organ donation... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-blood-and-transplant-pass-it-on 420,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-blood-and-transplant-pass-it-on Thu, 06 Feb 2020 09:00:00 GMT The Association for the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Cymru Wales has partnered with the Welsh NHS Confederation to launch a new toolkit to promote the pharmaceutical industry and NHS Wales working together for patients. The toolkit, launched yesterday (Feb 5) at the 21st Welsh NHS Confederation Annual Conference and Exhibition... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-wales-and-abpi-launch-new-collaborative-toolkit- 409,420,413,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-wales-and-abpi-launch-new-collaborative-toolkit- Thu, 06 Feb 2020 08:15:00 GMT As part of the NHS Digital Child Health programme, Personal Child Health Records or “Redbook” will receive a digital makeover. NHS Digital has considered the limitations of the physical Redbook and decided that digitalisation is the way forward for parents to easily access important health and development information. ... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-benefit-from-digital-redbook-app 420,413,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-benefit-from-digital-redbook-app Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:15:00 GMT NHS Health Scotland has published an in-depth paper discussing the effectiveness of healthy coping mechanisms in relation to mental health and work related stress in education. The paper analyses several techniques used to deal with stress in the work place, using specific studies that focus on teachers. Some of the techniques include... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-health-scotland-publishes-study-on-teacher-wellbeing- 409,420,414,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-health-scotland-publishes-study-on-teacher-wellbeing- Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:15:00 GMT Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust has introduced a new POD facility to reduce waiting times for patients who arrive by ambulance. The POD (Patient Offload Department) has been installed outside the Royal Gwent Hospital’s Emergency Department to enable health care professionals to see to patients more quickly during busy... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/emergency-crews-and-patients-to-benefit-from-new-pod-facility- 420,407,408,411,418,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/emergency-crews-and-patients-to-benefit-from-new-pod-facility- Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:30:00 GMT The Local Government Association has today (Jan 3) published a new report highlighting how local authorities can support children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. The report by Isos Partnership and commissioned by the LGA, includes research from real dealings with eight council areas (Bedford Borough, Camden... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-lga-report-calls-on-government-support-for-childrens-mental-health 409,420,414,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-lga-report-calls-on-government-support-for-childrens-mental-health Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:00:00 GMT The Health Foundation has announced a ‘significant investment’ into developing a new programme of work aimed at analysing the impact of data analytics and technology on UK health and care. The new strategy, Data Analytics for Better Health, will build on existing analytical capability in the health and care system to ensure... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/health-foundation-to-explore-data-and-tech-in-health-and-care 420,413,419,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/health-foundation-to-explore-data-and-tech-in-health-and-care Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:30:00 GMT Chief Executive of social care enterprise, Turning Point, Lord Victor Adebowale, joins us for the third NHE podcast, giving us insight into the difference he’s made during his 20 years at Turning Point and what he hopes to achieve in his new role at NHS Confederation. With hosts Emily Rodgers and Matt Roberts, and our first... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ep-3-from-turning-point-to-nhs-confed 420,413,2978,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ep-3-from-turning-point-to-nhs-confed Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:45:00 GMT In a keynote speech at the Healthtech Alliance, (Jan 28) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced a £140m Artificial Intelligence (AI) competition to speed up testing and delivery of potential NHS tools. In the opening few lines of the speech, he goes into detail about how important adopting technology... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/matt-hancock-announces-140m-competition-for-ai-in-the-nhs 410,420,415,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/matt-hancock-announces-140m-competition-for-ai-in-the-nhs Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:45:00 GMT The NHS has launched a campaign (Jan 25) to increase action taken on the climate ‘health emergency’ in 2020, aiming to prevent illness, relieve pressure on A&Es and save tens of thousands of lives in the UK. It comes after the launch of the Climate Assembly UK this week, which explored solutions to reaching the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/greener-nhs-campaign-launched-to-fight-health-emergency- 420,407,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/greener-nhs-campaign-launched-to-fight-health-emergency- Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:00:00 GMT A work placement scheme helping young people with disabilities has earned an overall ‘good’ rating in its first Ofsted report. Health Education England’s programme, Project Choice, supports people with disabilities, learning difficulties and autism aged 16-24 to gain vital work experience within healthcare settings and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ofsted-work-placements-for-young-adults-with-disabilities-rated-good 420,412,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ofsted-work-placements-for-young-adults-with-disabilities-rated-good Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:30:00 GMT NHS Employers has today (Jan 22) published a new international recruitment toolkit commissioned by Department for Health and Social Care, in collaboration with NHS England and Improvement and Health Education England. The new toolkit is designed to support collaborative, effective and ethical international recruitment in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-employers-launch-international-recruitment-toolkit- 420,407,428,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-employers-launch-international-recruitment-toolkit- Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:45:00 GMT A more sensitive cervical cancer screening test could save the lives of hundreds of women in England, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. NHS England has today (Jan 20) announced that there is a new “potential to eliminate” cervical cancer completely thanks to the change in primary test within the NHS Cervical Cancer Screening... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-screening-has-potential-to-eliminate-cervical-cancer-in-england 420,411,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-screening-has-potential-to-eliminate-cervical-cancer-in-england Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:15:00 GMT The director of NHS mental health, Claire Murdoch, has penned a written plea to the heads of top gambling firms, urging them to take action on improving betting-related ill health. Further pressure has been put on gambling companies to take responsibility for their actions following reports that they continue to persuade losing betters... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-mental-health-director-demands-urgent-gambling-action 420,413,414,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-mental-health-director-demands-urgent-gambling-action Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:30:00 GMT The government has announced the launch of a clinical trial for a new cholesterol treatment to be made available on the NHS. The heart disease drug has the potential to save up to 30,000 lives over the next decade thanks to a government collaboration with pharmaceutical company Novartis to tackle heart disease. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-nhs-drug-set-to-save-up-to-30000-lives-over-10-years 420,411,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-nhs-drug-set-to-save-up-to-30000-lives-over-10-years Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:00:00 GMT Zaytun Ratansi, health facilitator at Living Well Taking Control, outlines ways that health care professionals (HCPs) to shorten the gender gap in healthcare. Access to healthcare is not equal amongst the different groups within society. This is particularly true when we look at how different genders receive treatment. In 2019, a study of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/hcp-gender-health-gap 420,408,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/hcp-gender-health-gap Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:15:00 GMT A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed how neuroreceptors responsible for addiction, respond to nicotine. Nicotine is extremely addictive, making it hard to quit smoking and as a result, adding pressure on the NHS. The habit claims the lives of more than seven million people each year, with many more... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/university-research-could-help-people-quit-smoking 420,411,417,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/university-research-could-help-people-quit-smoking Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:00:00 GMT Professor Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive and health and social care director for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), discusses the latest impact report on lung cancer care. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the third most common cancer in England. According to the latest report by the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nice-impact-report-lung-cancer 420,408,417,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nice-impact-report-lung-cancer Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:45:00 GMT Mike Farrar Chairperson of Swim England Would you talk us through your previous roles within the NHS? I’ve held a number of roles within the NHS, including Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, CEO of the North West Strategic Health Authority, CEO of the South Yorkshire Health Authority, CEO of Tees Health Authority... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/mike-farrar-swim-england-last-word 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/mike-farrar-swim-england-last-word Sat, 07 Dec 2019 09:00:00 GMT Source : NHE Nov/Dec   Professor Peter Marsden, head of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, UCLH 3D printing is a relatively new technology with a rapidly growing number of applications. However, scientists and engineers in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at University College... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/moulding-the-future-with-3d-printing 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/moulding-the-future-with-3d-printing Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:45:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec   Conversational Intelligence Within The NHS Sue Kennard, Head Of  Employee Wellbeing service,Barts Health NHS Trust In health services there’s a good deal of talking - but are they the kinds of conversations that make workplaces better places to be? At Barts Health NHS Trust a team of 12... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/conversational-intelligence-within-the-nhs 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/conversational-intelligence-within-the-nhs Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:15:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec   According to Age UK, loneliness has been associated with a 40% increased risk of dementia. Research has also found that only around 10% of people aged 50+ take part in a sporting activity or exercise at least once a week. Evidenced by these statistics, tackling issues such as social... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/six-ways-technology-is-benefiting-the-older-generation 420,411,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/six-ways-technology-is-benefiting-the-older-generation Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:15:00 GMT Charity organisation, Diabetes UK, has revealed data from their latest audit highlighting that only one in eight women with diabetes have access to risk-reducing pregnancy preparations. The 2017/2018 National Pregnancy in Diabetes (NPID) audit for England, Wales and the Isle of Man found that almost one in two babies of women with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/diabetes-uk-calls-for-better-pre-pregnancy-and-antenatal-support 420,408,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/diabetes-uk-calls-for-better-pre-pregnancy-and-antenatal-support Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:30:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec   Vanessa Wakefield, Clinical Team Manager for Community Respiratory and Cardiac Services. Sally Wood,Clinical Lead Physiotherapist for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme and Outpatient Respiratory Physiotherapy Clinic. People living with diagnoses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/pulmonary-rehabilitation-programme- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/pulmonary-rehabilitation-programme- Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:00:00 GMT Every day you and your teams play a vital role in delivering transformational public services to millions of citizens. These public services help save lives, provide care for vulnerable children, put roofs over millions of heads and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s an unprecedented landscape for politics at present and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/what-can-you-do-for-the-citizen 420,421,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/what-can-you-do-for-the-citizen Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:15:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec   Jo Bibby, director of health - The Health Foundation. The future health of young people is our nation’s greatest asset. This premise has been the driving force behind our young people’s future health inquiry. We have spent two years seeking to uncover whether those growing up... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/housing-transport-and-education-policy-can-secure-future-health-of-young-people 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/housing-transport-and-education-policy-can-secure-future-health-of-young-people Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:45:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec Mike Farrar, former NHS Chief Executive For 13 Years And Chairperson Of Swim England.   There’s simply no other sporting activity quite like it. It can be enjoyed by people of all ages, whether they are physically fit, battling long-term medical conditions or tackling mental health illnesses... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/make-a-splashsave-the-nhs-cash 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/make-a-splashsave-the-nhs-cash Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:15:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec 19  Johnny Skillicorn-Aston, director of Engagement and communication, Conclusio Following the discussions during the roundtable around malnutrition, the present panel called for a series of actions to help improve the situation. Those actions included an accountability framework which outlines the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/10-point-plan--managing-malnutrition-effectively- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/10-point-plan--managing-malnutrition-effectively- Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:30:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec Dr Keith Aqua, chief medical officer, Mile High Labs Last year I became the Chief Medical Officer of Mile High Labs, the world’s largest processor of hemp-derived CBD. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, Mile High Labs is not a medicinal cannabis company, rather a large-scale CBD ingredient and product... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/why-cbd-why-now-mile-high-labs 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/why-cbd-why-now-mile-high-labs Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:15:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec 19  Johnny Skillicorn-Aston, director of Engagement and communication, Conclusio  A recent roundtable event attended by academics, nutrition experts and health and industry leaders brought into sharp focus the issue of malnutrition and its consequences for health and wellbeing.  Meeting at St... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/10-point-plan--feeding-better-outcomes 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/10-point-plan--feeding-better-outcomes Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec 19  Puneet Plaha, consultant neuro-oncology surgeon at GenesisCare, as well as chair of the tumour section of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. The incidence of brain metastasis – cancer that has spread to the brain from another part of the body – is increasing. The key reasons are;... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/treating-the-patient-as-a-whole-not-just-the-cancer 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/treating-the-patient-as-a-whole-not-just-the-cancer Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:30:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec 19  Dr Darren Leech, director at NHS Elect ‘Management’ remains a toxic word for the NHS. Managers have long been associated with a bureaucracy that impedes, rather than improves patient care and it is for that reason that many NHS organisations have focused on developing ‘future... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/leadership-and-management-are-two-different-roles--what-is-your-job-really 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/leadership-and-management-are-two-different-roles--what-is-your-job-really Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:15:00 GMT  Source: NHE Nov/Dec   Paul Butler, Associate Safety And Learning Lead At NHS Resolution Sharps injuries are a well-known risk in the health and social care sector. Sharps contaminated with an infected patient’s blood can transmit more than 20 diseases, including hepatitis B, C and human immunodeficiency virus... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/needlestick-the-harms-and-cost-of-an-avoidable-injury- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/needlestick-the-harms-and-cost-of-an-avoidable-injury- Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:15:00 GMT Source: NHE Nov/Dec Jin Sahota, CEO, Supply Chain Coordination   On 1 April 2018, a new management function, Supply Chain Coordination (SCCL) went live following a multi-year programme, one of the largest transformation programmes in the public sector. The aim was to deliver a new operating model for NHS Supply Chain... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-the-new-nhs-supply-chain-is-transforming-the-landscape 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-the-new-nhs-supply-chain-is-transforming-the-landscape Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:45:00 GMT Research undertaken by Imperial College London, has shown that digital monitoring significantly reduces hospital stays and chance of death related to sepsis. The digital sepsis alert system at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was introduced in 2016 and monitors a number of symptoms to help identify sepsis before it becomes a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/digital-sepsis-monitoring-system-helps-save-lives-and-improves-care 420,419,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/digital-sepsis-monitoring-system-helps-save-lives-and-improves-care Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:15:00 GMT NHS Highland have introduced the roll out of entirely digital medical notes for pregnant women being cared for in NHS Highland hospitals. Expectant mums and their health professionals will now be able to access their medical notes through a PC, tablet or mobile device through a secure online portal or maternity notes system. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/digital-maternity-notes-introduced-in-nhs-highland 409,420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/digital-maternity-notes-introduced-in-nhs-highland Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:15:00 GMT A new mental health service aimed at Greater Manchester’s students is to be announced at an event this evening (Nov 18). The service aims to help students overcome significant mental illness, such as psychosis, depression, personality disorders and eating disorders whilst living at university. Greater Manchester’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/innovative-mental-health-services-announced-for-greater-manchesters-students 420,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/innovative-mental-health-services-announced-for-greater-manchesters-students Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMT UK health leaders are demanding an end to the neglect on social care, claiming NHS patient care is suffering as a result. The NHS Confederation leads the Health for Care coalition of 15 national health organisations and are calling for a sustainable and long-term settlement. The government’s extra £20.5bn investment is at... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ending-social-care-crisis-is-a-critical-priority-for-health-leaders 409,420,413,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ending-social-care-crisis-is-a-critical-priority-for-health-leaders Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:30:00 GMT A report for the General Medical Council (GMC) has found that existing good practice on supporting doctors’ wellbeing and patient safety should be applied more widely. Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia were asked to carry out a UK-wide review in 2018 into the poor wellbeing faced by medical students and doctors. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/doctor-wellbeing-solutions-could-make-uk-a-model-for-the-world 409,420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/doctor-wellbeing-solutions-could-make-uk-a-model-for-the-world Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMT Dementia cannula sleeves, devised and made by volunteers at Handmade for Dementia, have been issued to The Welsh Ambulance Service for the first time. The new sleeves are used to keep dementia patients from panicking and pulling needles from their arms during treatment, and have been proven to work effectively. A first for The Welsh... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/dementia-patients-in-wales-to-benefit-from-cannula-sleeves- 420,413,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/dementia-patients-in-wales-to-benefit-from-cannula-sleeves- Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:45:00 GMT The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), has written an open letter to all standing parties in the upcoming election, to protect public health and promote wellbeing. The letter outlines the most pressing public health issues that the RSPH believes should be addressed by any future government. The letter encourages the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rsph-launches-public-health-manifesto-ahead-of-general-election 405,420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rsph-launches-public-health-manifesto-ahead-of-general-election Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:45:00 GMT A university degree designed to further develop patient care and paramedic training opportunities will be available at five universities across Scotland. The new Paramedic BSc degree was announced yesterday (7 Nov) by the Scottish Ambulance Service and aims to emphasise support for people with long-term and chronic conditions, mental... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/paramedic-university-degree-to-boost-patient-care 420,418,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/paramedic-university-degree-to-boost-patient-care Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:30:00 GMT The Scottish Affairs Committee have carried out a comprehensive inquiry into problematic drug use in Scotland, and published their report. The rise in drug deaths in Scotland has reached an all-time high of 1,187 deaths last year and the report shows that poverty and deprivation are large contributors to problematic drug use in Scotland... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/scottish-affairs-committee-calls-for-radical-change-in-approach-to-drug-use 409,405,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/scottish-affairs-committee-calls-for-radical-change-in-approach-to-drug-use Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:15:00 GMT The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) are collaborating to invest £7.5m in new technology innovation. A number of suppliers have been appointed to start developing a cutting-edge digital platform that will help to transform public services and give the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/greater-manchester-tech-to-transform-care-with-75m-investment 409,420,413,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/greater-manchester-tech-to-transform-care-with-75m-investment Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:30:00 GMT Swimming in the UK Is having a huge impact on the health and social care system, as new research reveals it saves the NHS more than £357m a year. Swim England, the national governing body for swimming, published a Value of Swimming report, highlighting these figures and the specific ways getting people to take part in swim related... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/swim-england-swimming-saves-nhs-357m-a-year 420,413,415,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/swim-england-swimming-saves-nhs-357m-a-year Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:45:00 GMT A collaboration between NHS England and Health Education England will help service and care staff to reduce hospital delays for patients. Today (Nov 6) the two organisations have launched ActNow, an e-learning tool to work on getting people home from hospital quicker. Around 350,000 patients spend over three weeks in acute hospitals... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-online-training-to-reduce-time-spent-in-hospital- 420,408,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-online-training-to-reduce-time-spent-in-hospital- Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:00:00 GMT Orthopaedic specialists at NHS Golden Jubilee (GJNH) have carried out a study which could give elite cyclists a competitive edge through using a shorter pedal crank. A state-of-the-art motion capture system, used by GJNH Orthopaedic Research Team to collect data on patients who have had hip or knee replacement surgery and are taking part... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-nhs-research-could-give-athletes-competitive-edge- 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-nhs-research-could-give-athletes-competitive-edge- Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:15:00 GMT Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) are encouraging people with lung disease to take part in free activity and advice sessions. Individuals suffering from lung disease in West Essex can “dramatically improve their lives” by benefitting from EPUT ran sessions offering advice and support. The new... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-foundation-trust-urges-people-to-join-free-pulmonary-rehabilitation-programme- 420,413,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-foundation-trust-urges-people-to-join-free-pulmonary-rehabilitation-programme- Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:30:00 GMT NHS Digital published a report yesterday (Oct 31) on NHS Maternity Statistics, with detailed information on care in NHS hospitals in England received before, during and after delivery from the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) database. The report shows that the percentage of women using analgesics or anaesthetics before or during... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/women-using-painkillers-in-childbirth-drops-6-in-a-decade 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/women-using-painkillers-in-childbirth-drops-6-in-a-decade Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:15:00 GMT Source: NHE Oct/Nov 2019    Professor Catherine Walshe, head of health research at Lancaster University and an expert in palliative and end-of-life care, explains the benefits of investing in end-of-life care volunteers in hospitals. Dying in hospital is something that many of us can expect. Nearly half of all deaths... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/palliative-care-volunteering--lancaster-uni 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/palliative-care-volunteering--lancaster-uni Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:00:00 GMT Source PSE: Oct/Nov 2019   Nicholas Evans, deputy chair of the trainee committee at the British Association of Stroke Physicians (BASP), explains why vital training expansion is needed to tackle one of the UK’s leading causes of death and disability. Improving stroke care and modernising the stroke workforce is a key... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-stroke-care-training--british-association-of-stroke-physicians-basp 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-stroke-care-training--british-association-of-stroke-physicians-basp Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:30:00 GMT Source: NHE Sept/Oct 2019   Dom Hardy, director of primary care and system transformation at NHS England, is leading the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to create integrated care systems across the country. As he explains, change starts at the top. The NHS Long Term Plan set out bold ambitions... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/building-a-leadership-culture-fit-for-the-future--nhs-england 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/building-a-leadership-culture-fit-for-the-future--nhs-england Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:00:00 GMT Assistant Chief Ambulance Officer, Steve Wheaton, received a Queen’s Ambulance Medal (QAM) from Her Majesty during an Investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Friday (25 Oct) Steve is part of the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) and was recognised in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honour’s List for his dedication and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/her-majesty-presents-ambulance-officer-with-queens-ambulance-medal- 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/her-majesty-presents-ambulance-officer-with-queens-ambulance-medal- Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:45:00 GMT Director of the West Essex Integrated Care Partnership, James Roach, alongside Johnny Skillicorn-Aston, comms and engagement lead for Barnet and Enfield CCGs, describe the case for greater uptake of biosimilars within the NHS. Establishing a firmer position for biosimilars in the medicines supply chain represents a huge opportunity, but... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/utilising-biosimilars-within-the-nhs-medicines-supply-chain 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/utilising-biosimilars-within-the-nhs-medicines-supply-chain Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:30:00 GMT Source: NHE SEPT-OCT 19 Hugh Reynolds, clinical director at Liaison Care, outlines how Liaison can help support CCGs to accurately calculate personal health budgets. Reports earlier this year by the BBC claimed that thousands of vulnerable patients in England are missing out on NHS funding for care that they are legally entitled to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/getting-personal-calculating-the-cost-of-care- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/getting-personal-calculating-the-cost-of-care- Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:00:00 GMT Source: NHE SEPT-OCT 19  Dr Sue O’Connell, chief executive officer at Community Health Partnerships (CHP), discusses the readiness of out of hospital estate and its impact on realising the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan describes an ambitious future for out of hospital care. At the heart of this vision is a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-estate-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-nhs-long-term-plan- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-estate-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-nhs-long-term-plan- Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:30:00 GMT Source: NHE SEPT-OCT 19  Sarah Reed, improvement fellow at the Health Foundation, describes how the NHS can realise its potential as an anchor institution. There is widening acceptance that good health is shaped by the conditions in which we live, work and play, with the clinical care we receive playing a crucial but ultimately... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/importance-of-building-healthier-communities- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/importance-of-building-healthier-communities- Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:30:00 GMT Source: NHE SEPT-OCT 19  Dr Mary Ramsay, head of the immunisation, hepatitis and blood safety department at Public Health England (PHE), focuses in depth on vaccine uptake in the UK and the country’s recent loss of ‘measles-free’ status. In 2017, based on data from 2014-2016, the World Health Organization (WHO)... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-uk-no-longer-has-mealses-free-status- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-uk-no-longer-has-mealses-free-status- Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:30:00 GMT Helen Gilburt, fellow in health policy at the King’s Fund, explores the increasing importance and role of volunteers within the healthcare service. In 2013, The King’s Fund first explored the growing role of volunteering in the NHS. We estimated there were more than 78,000 volunteers across all acute hospital trusts but... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-expanding-role-of-volunteers-in-the-nhs 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-expanding-role-of-volunteers-in-the-nhs Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT Source: NHE SEPT-OCT 19  Geoff Heyes, head of health policy and influencing at Mind, outlines the importance of both NHS and local authority roles within shaping improvements to mental health care. In recent years, leaders in the public and voluntary sectors have welcomed many mental health promises, from additional funding to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-mental-health- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-mental-health- Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:00:00 GMT   Many areas of the UK are just starting to explore the large-scale digital care record projects that will be critical to delivering their integrated care and population health management agendas. Trusts are carrying out fact-finding missions and preliminary investigations, yet there are already records up and running that are not... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/niecr-an-aspiration-achieved 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/niecr-an-aspiration-achieved Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:00:00 GMT With Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust creating several NHS and European firsts in its use of AI, Cindy Fedell, the chief digital and information officer and senior responsible officer for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Digital Programme, discusses the movement into a new digital age. In the few seconds it takes you to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/blending-human-intelligence-with-artificial-intelligence 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/blending-human-intelligence-with-artificial-intelligence Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT Previously featured in NHE Sep/Oct edition   Dr Natalie Borman, care group director of the Wessex Kidney Centre at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, explains why we need to advocate grassroots collaboration on behalf of patients. The last decade has been a challenging time for the NHS with an increased demand on... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/leading-debate-manifesting-change 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/leading-debate-manifesting-change Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:00:00 GMT Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has revealed his ambition to make social prescribing schemes as accessible as medical care on the NHS. Health, wellbeing and social welfare will all be addressed through social prescribing by connecting the public to their community services. Activities including art and singing classes... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-national-academy-for-social-prescribing-launched 420,413,414,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-national-academy-for-social-prescribing-launched Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:00:00 GMT Rob Webster, the CEO lead for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership & CEO for South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT, explains how advancing health tech innovation means working together to deliver for the economy and for patients. In August, we were delighted to announce a new cross-sector agreement for the Leeds... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/leeds-city-region-health-tech-partnership 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/leeds-city-region-health-tech-partnership Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:00:00 GMT Afzal Chaudhry, consultant nephrologist and chief clinical information officer at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT (CUH), describes how new monitoring technology is allowing patients at risk of sepsis to be identified and treated more quickly. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body responds to an infection... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/saving-lives-using-technology 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/saving-lives-using-technology Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT A national survey, published today (Oct 23) by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), shows most people experience good urgent and emergency care, but waiting times are still a problem. More than 50,000 people, who received urgent and emergency care, took part in a CQC survey covering 132 NHS trusts across England. Findings show that the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/cqc-survey-shows-nhs-improvement- 420,412,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/cqc-survey-shows-nhs-improvement- Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT David Rowland, director of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI), argues that in order to protect patients, the Ian Paterson Inquiry must address the inherent risks in the private hospital sector’s business model. If you were told before you boarded a plane that the airline did not accept any liability for the actions... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/policing-the-private-hospital-sector 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/policing-the-private-hospital-sector Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:00:00 GMT A Rough Sleeping grant of £1.9m has today (Oct 22) been awarded to 6 projects involving partnerships between Local Authorities (LAs) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The goverment funding will go towards testing models that provide better access to health services for people with mental ill health and drug and alcohol... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/almost-2m-rough-sleeping-grant-awarded-for-health-of-homeless 420,413,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/almost-2m-rough-sleeping-grant-awarded-for-health-of-homeless Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:30:00 GMT With the Government making sweeping changes to NHS health checks, Jo Churchill, the newly appointed minister for prevention, public health and primary care, looks towards a more predictive and preventative health service. This is an exciting time to be a health minister in this government. That statement may surprise many of you, given... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/prevention-public-health-and-primary-care 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/prevention-public-health-and-primary-care Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced today more than 180,000 doctors and dentists can get confidential advice and support either over the phone or in person. For instance, if they’ve faced a stressful incident at work or feel they are struggling with their mental health. Support is available to staff 24/7 through a dedicated... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/access-to-24-7-confidential-advice-and-support-for-all-nhs-doctors-and-dentists- 420,414,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/access-to-24-7-confidential-advice-and-support-for-all-nhs-doctors-and-dentists- Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:45:00 GMT Boris Johnson’s proposed Brexit deal that emerged this week has been met with mixed feelings, but NHS Confederation has today (Oct 18) stated that “a good negotiated deal will always be better than a no-deal.” With effects ranging from major change or no change at all on some issues, a huge concern for many is the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-confederation-responds-to-proposed-brexit-deal 405,420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-confederation-responds-to-proposed-brexit-deal Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:15:00 GMT Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) had launched a free online e-learning resource called ‘Looking after your self-ie’ as a continuation of this year’s Scroll Free September campaign. The campaign encouraged an estimated 400,000 social media users across the UK take a break from social platforms for 30 days. A... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rsph-want-you-to-look-after-your-self-ie-with-launch-of-online-resource- 405,420,413,414,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rsph-want-you-to-look-after-your-self-ie-with-launch-of-online-resource- Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT Jo Gander, director of clinical and product assurance at NHS Supply Chain’s management function, Supply Chain Coordination Ltd, explains how health and care professional involvement is integral to the New Operating Model. Our commitment to meet the needs of users and support health and care professionals to deliver a consistently... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/clinical-involvement-at-the-heart-of-nhs-supply-chain 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/clinical-involvement-at-the-heart-of-nhs-supply-chain Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:00:00 GMT Hayley Clark, acting head of development and impact at the NSPCC, discusses the significant gap in support services for children who have been sexually abused, and the Home Office’s new framework for commissioners. The complex and fragmented commissioning landscape for child sexual abuse support services has resulted in a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nspcc-letting-the-future-in 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nspcc-letting-the-future-in Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:30:00 GMT Mark Lever, chief executive of Helpforce, explains why doctors need to think seriously about volunteers and the role they can play in improving the NHS system. Volunteers have played an important role in the NHS since it began, which is why we are heartened to hear that doctors believe there is room for their roles to grow to help address... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/thinking-bigger-about-volunteers 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/thinking-bigger-about-volunteers Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:00:00 GMT The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published their annual State of Care report today (Oct 15) highlighting the overall quality of health and social care in England. Certain concerned were raised, particularly with regards to ease of access to care and wait times for an appointment, often chasing different care services just to access... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/cqc-report-finds-care-quality-improving-slightly-but-work-still-to-be-done 420,412,414,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/cqc-report-finds-care-quality-improving-slightly-but-work-still-to-be-done Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:15:00 GMT Lee Edwards, IT director at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), describes how the MySBSPay app has made it easier for NHS employees to view and understand their pay and help them work more efficiently. With NHS SBS providing a payroll service to around 90 different NHS organisations, we are uniquely placed to design, develop and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/understanding-pay-and-improving-workforce-efficiency 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/understanding-pay-and-improving-workforce-efficiency Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:30:00 GMT Towns and areas with ‘homeless hotspots’ are set to receive NHS investment in specialist mental health care. The NHS will provide more care for rough sleepers across the country by giving specific support to their mental health. New psychiatrists, psychologists and other experts are to be introduced in seven parts of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-provide-mental-health-outreach-for-rough-sleepers 420,413,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-provide-mental-health-outreach-for-rough-sleepers Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:15:00 GMT NHS Chief Simon Stevens has announced today (October 10) the setting up of a new taskforce to improve current specialist children and young people’s mental health, autism and learning disability services in England. This forms part of the NHS Long Term Plan, dedicated to improving patient wellbeing and outlining an ambitious... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-taskforce-aimed-at-young-peoples-mental-health-learning-disability-and-autism-care 409,420,414,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-taskforce-aimed-at-young-peoples-mental-health-learning-disability-and-autism-care Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:45:00 GMT As part of her final work as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Professor Dame Sally Davies, has published a report named ‘Time to solve childhood obesity’. The report is aimed at politicians and policy makers rather than parents and claims the government should prioritise children’s health ahead of companies’... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rcn-responds-to-damning-childhood-obesity-report 405,420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rcn-responds-to-damning-childhood-obesity-report Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT NHS England members of staff who call to attention any malpractice will be supported through new dedicated system. If any doctor, nurse of NHS worker across the country was to raise the alarm on poor or unsafe practice within the NHS, they no longer have to worry about the effect it could have on their career. During a number of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-introduce-support-plan-for-whistle-blowers 420,407,408,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-introduce-support-plan-for-whistle-blowers Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:15:00 GMT Children and young adults with serious addictions to computer games will be offered help and care by the NHS following the launch of the country’s first specialist clinic. The new service is an extension of the NHS Long Term Care plan, as part of the National Centre for Behavioural Addictions, which will also support individuals... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-provide-help-for-children-addicted-to-computer-games-as-first-specialist-clinic-opens 409,420,414,407,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-provide-help-for-children-addicted-to-computer-games-as-first-specialist-clinic-opens Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:30:00 GMT The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has published a report today, called ‘Standing up for patient and public safety’, outlining the serious staffing crisis and its potential causes. The report warns of the need for legal responsibilities regarding the supply and planning of the health and care workforce. It says they need... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nursing-workforce-have-shrunk-at-an-alarming-rate-says-rcn-as-nursing-vacancies-rise-to-record-highs 409,420,415,2978,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nursing-workforce-have-shrunk-at-an-alarming-rate-says-rcn-as-nursing-vacancies-rise-to-record-highs Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:15:00 GMT Public Health England (PHE) have launched the Every Mind Matters campaign in collaboration with the NHS to help people with mental health issues, provide support and promote wellbeing. PHE (Monday 7 October) launched Every Mind Matters following a survey outlining that more than eight in ten people (83%) have experienced poor mental... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/pioneering-mental-health-platform-launched-by-nhs-and-phe 420,414,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/pioneering-mental-health-platform-launched-by-nhs-and-phe Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:30:00 GMT Mental health charity, Mind, have found in their annual survey that people are being prescribed medication for mental health issues without being told of the side effects. In response, the charity is calling for more mental health training to be made available for GPs. Mind’s Big Mental Health Survey, asks people currently... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/mind-calls-for-further-gp-training-to-better-inform-over-mental-health-medication-side-effects 420,414,408,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/mind-calls-for-further-gp-training-to-better-inform-over-mental-health-medication-side-effects Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:00:00 GMT Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have announced that the government will provide £13bn for 40 new hospitals to be built for the NHS. Following a trip to North Manchester general hospital yesterday, the Prime Minister committed to building 40 new hospitals in the NHS, although the announcement has been met with some controversy and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/prime-minister-announces-biggest-infrastructure-investment-in-the-nhs-for-a-generation 420,407,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/prime-minister-announces-biggest-infrastructure-investment-in-the-nhs-for-a-generation Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:00:00 GMT NHS bodies have welcomed a new proposal for reform published today by NHS England and NHS Improvement, intended to speed up implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan. Plans include more collaborative and integrated working between clinical commissioners, provider organisations and other partners. Responding to the proposals for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-nhs-reform-proposals-a-welcome-step-forward- 420,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-nhs-reform-proposals-a-welcome-step-forward- Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:45:00 GMT Dr Graham Jackson, co-chair at NHS Clinical Commissioners, outlines how CCGs can best deliver the goals outlined in the Long Term Plan and perform at their highest quality. Speaking at the NHS Confederation’s conference last month, Simon Stevens, highlighted the need for change in the NHS’s service model. An ageing population... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/what-commissioners-need-to-transform-healthcare 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/what-commissioners-need-to-transform-healthcare Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT Rob Houghton, the chief operations officer for the Post Office, explains what attracted him to the role of non-executive director for technology and innovation at the NHS Supply Chain. Houghton joined the NHS Supply Chain as an IT-focused non-executive director earlier this year, with straight-forward goals to spend less, save more, and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/from-post-office-to-national-health-service 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/from-post-office-to-national-health-service Tue, 03 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT Mark O’Reilly, project director at Bolton College of Medical Sciences (BCMS), discusses how the institution wants to transform the NHS workforce to tackle the chronic shortage in medical staff. A recent report, published by The Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation and King's Fund, suggests that current trends in workforce recruitment... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/building-boltons-nhs-workforce 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/building-boltons-nhs-workforce Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT Mark Hutchinson, chief digital and information officer at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHFT), explains the benefits of its new ‘clinical wrap’ approach to electronic patient records. GHFT is one of the most digitally immature organisations in the health service. We have some administrative systems, but the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/binning-paper-for-the-new-clinical-wrap-strategy 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/binning-paper-for-the-new-clinical-wrap-strategy Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT With the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) moving from a CQC rating of ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’, John Bateson, senior improvement advisor, Jonathan Berry, deputy head of operations and Cynthia Rau, theatre business support manager, outline the improvements made at the organisation. We are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/cultural-shift-pays-off-at-britains-leading-orthopaedic-hospital 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/cultural-shift-pays-off-at-britains-leading-orthopaedic-hospital Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Michelle Wayt, assistant director of development and employment at NHS Employers, discusses how organisations can best use the apprenticeship levy. Paying £200m per year, the NHS is the largest contributor to the apprenticeship levy. To some this presents a range of challenges, but to many employers in our sector it is being... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-the-nhs-harnesses-apprenticeship-levy-opportunities 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-the-nhs-harnesses-apprenticeship-levy-opportunities Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Sam Ward, director of commissioned services at the Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), explains the benefits that a well-designed and implemented volunteer programme can have for hospitals and staff. We’re now over halfway through the year which started with the release of the much-anticipated Long Term Plan. At the Royal Voluntary... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-volunteering-providing-valuable-contributions 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-volunteering-providing-valuable-contributions Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT In the wake of a review into gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide laws, Charlie Massey, chief executive of the General Medical Council (GMC), reflects on how the profession can begin to regain trust with doctors. We commissioned the independent review into how the laws of gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rebuilding-trust-after-bawa-garba 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rebuilding-trust-after-bawa-garba Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Parental conflict can be potentially damaging to children and impacts on their health, wellbeing and academic performance. Ibraheem Choudhry, project support officer at the Department of Work and Pensions, argues the importance of using digital services to support parents. Evidence suggests parental conflict can be triggered by life... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/reducing-parental-conflict-a-digital-discovery 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/reducing-parental-conflict-a-digital-discovery Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Clare Morgan, research delivery director at the National Institute for Health Research’s (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN), looks at why the rollout of a single contract review for commercial contract research is good news for all. Growth in the volume of commercial contract research has been strong over the last few years; in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-commercial-contract-research-in-the-nhs 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-commercial-contract-research-in-the-nhs Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Rachel Hutchings, a researcher in policy at the Nuffield Trust and co-author of the recent report, ‘Achieving a digital NHS: Lessons for national policy from the acute sector’, writes for NHE about the biggest barriers to digitising healthcare. In recent years, policy to achieve a digital NHS has moved away from the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/digitising-the-acute-sector-the-barriers-to-ambition 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/digitising-the-acute-sector-the-barriers-to-ambition Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Against a backdrop of condensed budgets and rising demand for health and social care, Rob Whiteman, chief executive of CIPFA, explains why preventative approaches are worth the cost. Rising demand and reducing resource – this has been the rolling landscape of the public sector for the past few years. In this context, it can be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/prevention-investing-for-the-future 420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/prevention-investing-for-the-future Tue, 13 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT While maternal and infant health in the UK is better than many parts of the world, one sector of our community is being left behind. Helena Nikiel talks to Sarah Todhunter about her work with Polish Antenatal Classes.   There are clearly defined links between lack of adequate antenatal care and the prevalence of injury and trauma in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/polish-antenatal-classes 409,420,413,408,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/polish-antenatal-classes Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:15:00 GMT Health Education England has welcomed the Government announcement of new non-executive directors (NEDs) to its board to provide independent advice, support and scrutiny, and work with senior officials on key policy decisions. The appointees are Professor Soraya Dhillon MBE, Dr Liz Mear, Professor Andrew George, Dr Andrew Foster and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/new-non-executive-board-members-at-health-education-england 420,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/new-non-executive-board-members-at-health-education-england Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:45:00 GMT UK Research and Innovation is looking for UK registered equity investors to form partnerships with them for a ‘Healthy Ageing Investment Accelerator’ scheme. The accelerator aims to deliver innovation to the ‘healthy ageing’ market as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Healthy Ageing... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/12m-made-available-to-smes-for-healthy-ageing-challenge-fund 420,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/12m-made-available-to-smes-for-healthy-ageing-challenge-fund Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:30:00 GMT Featured in July/August issue of NHE   James Roach, programme director at West Essex Integrated Care Partnership, takes a closer look at over-the-counter medicines, Victorian era healthcare and how to deliver efficiencies through the Long Term Plan.   It could be argued that, following the publication in November 2017 of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/framework-long-term-plan 410,420,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/framework-long-term-plan Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:00:00 GMT Featured in July/August issue of NHE   Phil Davies, procurement director at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), explains how insourcing clinical services is one way NHS hospitals are looking to meet growing patient demand and reduce waiting lists Whilst NHS hospitals up and down the country are well used to providing an... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-sbs-insourcing 405,420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-sbs-insourcing Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:45:00 GMT Featured in July/August issue of NHE   Derek Bell OBE, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, asks what needs to happen to plug the NHS workforce gap. Recruitment and retention of staff is one of the most important roles of any health service. Yet in the UK, there are a range of barriers and challenges to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-workforce-challenge 420,428,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-workforce-challenge Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:30:00 GMT From July/August issue of NHE   Harpreet Chana, the National Pharmacy Association’s digital programme director, discusses the journey ahead for the pharmaceutical sector in the new age of digital. Advances in digital technology have already significantly changed the way healthcare is delivered and experienced. Pharmacy is no... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/community-pharmacy-digital-age 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/community-pharmacy-digital-age Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:00:00 GMT The membership organisation for clinical commissioners, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), have responded positively to the new NHS Long Term Plan Implementation Framework. The paper, which outlines a ten-year strategy of improvement for the health service, was released yesterday after a board meeting of NHS Improvement and NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-clinical-commissioners-respond-to-nhs-long-term-implementation-framework 405,420,413,407,411,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-clinical-commissioners-respond-to-nhs-long-term-implementation-framework Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:00:00 GMT As the NHS works harder than ever to meet challenging targets within limited budgets, many trusts are finding it increasingly difficult to find new efficiencies and further reduce costs. But could energy be the key to unearthing savings? At first glance, NHS trusts’ energy bills don’t appear to hold savings opportunities. They... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/reducing-the-nhss-energy-bills- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/reducing-the-nhss-energy-bills- Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:00:00 GMT Supporting health and social care organisations deliver Personal Health Budgets for continuing healthcare and jointly funded packages of care is now achievable with a new tool launched by Liaison Care. Hugh Reynolds, clinical director at Liaison Care, reports. The introduction of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) has been a challenge for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/delivering-personal-health-budgets-with-the-liaison-care-calculator 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/delivering-personal-health-budgets-with-the-liaison-care-calculator Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:15:00 GMT Dr Caroline Fryar, head of advisory services at the Medical Defence Union (MDU), explains why medical defence organisation (MDO) membership remains important following the introduction of state indemnity. On 1 April 2019, state indemnity for NHS contracted primary care work was introduced in England and Wales. Following this, the MDU... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-introduction-of-state-indemnity-and-the-continued-importance-of-mdo-membership 405,420,415,421,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-introduction-of-state-indemnity-and-the-continued-importance-of-mdo-membership Wed, 22 May 2019 11:00:00 GMT Following a comprehensive review, NICE’s Medical Technology Guidance has recommended Debrisoft pad (10x10cm), Debrisoft Lolly and Debrisoft pad (13x20cm), manufactured by Lohmann & Rauscher, as part of the management of acute or chronic wounds in the community. The NICE committee behind the guidance concluded that using the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nice-recommends-monofilament-debridement-technology-for-use-in-acute-or-chronic-wounds 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nice-recommends-monofilament-debridement-technology-for-use-in-acute-or-chronic-wounds Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:00:00 GMT Aesop Institute 2019 is a continuing professional development programme for busy health and arts professionals with an interest in devising and running successful arts in health programmes. It has been devised by Aesop and the The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health at Canterbury Christ Church University. The programme... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/aesop-institute-2019-for-health-and-arts-professionals- 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/aesop-institute-2019-for-health-and-arts-professionals- Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:45:00 GMT Tom McCarthy, managing partner at Niche, sizes up the NHS Long-Term Plan. “It's the economy, stupid,” was coined by Bill Clinton’s election strategist, James Carville, in 1992 to emphasise the single most important issue to voters. The mantra became established thinking; the economy was thought to trump all other areas... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/old-lock-new-key-sizing-up-the-nhs-long-term-plan 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/old-lock-new-key-sizing-up-the-nhs-long-term-plan Mon, 18 Mar 2019 07:00:00 GMT Novartis Oncology has worked with the NHS on 55 JWPs since 2014, focusing on areas including improving the patient experience, redesigning cancer services, harnessing service data, and piloting innovative care models. JWPs can lead to rapid, significant gains in improving the patient experience, while helping the wider Health Service... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-trusts-collaborate-with-industry-to-improve-cancer-patient-outcomes 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-trusts-collaborate-with-industry-to-improve-cancer-patient-outcomes Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:15:00 GMT This document, written by the Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance, summarises key statements that were agreed during a Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance organised Expert Working Group Meeting. Anticoagulation UK worked in partnership with the Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance on the meeting. DEVELOPING OPTIMAL STANDARDS OF CARE FOR THE... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-optimal-standards-of-care-for-the-prevention-of-recurrent-venous-thromboembolism-vte-consensus-statement- 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-optimal-standards-of-care-for-the-prevention-of-recurrent-venous-thromboembolism-vte-consensus-statement- Fri, 22 Feb 2019 11:00:00 GMT EMS Healthcare report on the first fleet of mobile decontamination units creating significant efficiencies for endoscopy departments: Quest+ Decontamination. Endoscopy departments across the UK are benefiting from access to the UK’s first fleet of mobile decontamination units from leading mobile medical unit provider, EMS Healthcare... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/innovative-mobile-solution-meeting-nhs-demand 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/innovative-mobile-solution-meeting-nhs-demand Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:15:00 GMT Cognitive Publishing, the home of leading healthcare management magazine National Health Executive, has been selected as an official partner of the Northern Powerhouse. In support of the regional initiative, Cognitive will join a network of leaders and organisations who believe in supporting and delivering on the economic potential of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/national-health-executive-fuels-the-northern-powerhouse-with-official-partnership 420,2900 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/national-health-executive-fuels-the-northern-powerhouse-with-official-partnership Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:45:00 GMT Dirk Schrader, VP security at Greenbone Networks and certified information security manager, discusses the need for sustainable cyber resilience and how healthcare organisations can achieve such a state for their own information processes and data processing systems and assets. Keep a hospital in operation has a lot to do with keeping... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-need-for-cyber-resilience-in-healthcare 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-need-for-cyber-resilience-in-healthcare Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:15:00 GMT Using technology to increase patient engagement in their own care is a priority for health systems across the globe. But what do organisations need to consider when they are looking to embark on such projects? Dr Yossi Cohen, practising clinician and InterSystems’ physician executive, sets out some rules for patient... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rules-of-engagement 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rules-of-engagement Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:45:00 GMT As the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday, Alan Calder, founder and executive chairman at IT Governance, looks at the urgent need for healthcare organisations to develop cyber resilience to protect patient data, manage data breaches and comply with new data protection legislation. For the past year, the GDPR (General Data Protection... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/navigate-your-way-to-cyber-resilience 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/navigate-your-way-to-cyber-resilience Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:15:00 GMT Amna Khan, events and training marketing officer at the Energy Institute (EI), examines the cheapest, simplest ways to cut costs in healthcare estates. A recent report by Centrica discovered that the NHS would save approximately £130m a year – that’s enough money to pay for 4,000 extra nurses – just by improving... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/what-energy-efficiency-initiatives-can-we-implement-to-save-the-nhs-millions 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/what-energy-efficiency-initiatives-can-we-implement-to-save-the-nhs-millions Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:15:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Adrian Grove, business development director at Qube Learning, discusses the vital role of apprentices in the NHS, and what his organisation is doing to ensure that continues. As the NHS 70th Anniversary celebrations shine light on the way the service has developed and the remarkable legacy to date, leading... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/inspiring-campaign-launched-to-champion-the-vital-role-of-nhs-apprentices 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/inspiring-campaign-launched-to-champion-the-vital-role-of-nhs-apprentices Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:15:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE A new virtual smartcard which promises to transform NHS efficiency and improve patient care is now available to NHS trusts and clinicians, says Jo Flynn, marketing manager at Isosec. Isosec, the market-leading provider of security, authentication and workflow solutions to the NHS and healthcare sectors, has... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/isosec-launches-first-virtual-smartcard-to-revolutionise-nhs-authentication 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/isosec-launches-first-virtual-smartcard-to-revolutionise-nhs-authentication Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:00:00 GMT NHE’s Sacha Rowlands speaks to Michael Macdonnell, NHS England’s national director for transforming health systems, about the value of health creation when designing strong sustainability and transformation parnerships (STPs). Meeting NHS England’s Michael Macdonnell at New NHS Alliance’s bustling summit on 6... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/health-creation-is-here-to-stay 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/health-creation-is-here-to-stay Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT Dr Brian Fisher MBE, vice-chair of the New NHS Alliance (NNHSA), looks back at the organisation’s action summit – an event known for generating disruptive ideas that are catalysts for real change. On 6 December 2017, the NNHSA held its second annual action summit at the Royal College of GPs in London. This revolutionary event... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/calling-for-a-new-focus-on-wellness 420,413,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/calling-for-a-new-focus-on-wellness Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT NHE’s Seamus McDonnell explores the successes and challenges of different models of care integration currently taking place across the UK. Integrating healthcare services has been a hot-button issue in the UK for a number of years because of the promise it claims to bring. Integration, to some, means efficiency, fluidity and a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/integrated-health-how-do-the-case-studies-stack-up 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/integrated-health-how-do-the-case-studies-stack-up Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:30:00 GMT SPONSORED INTERVIEW H.E. Dr Bandar Abdulmohsen Al Knawy, president of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and chief executive of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), talks to NHE’s Luana Salles about how his new book can help make the NHS an even more reliable system for patients. The more we... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/what-reliability-means-to-healthcare 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/what-reliability-means-to-healthcare Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:00:00 GMT NHE’s Josh Mines reports from the NHS Providers annual conference in Birmingham on the work of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and how organisations should look to push digital innovation forward. To many attending NHS Providers’ annual conference on 7-8 November, the speeches given by NHS England CEO Simon Stevens... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/shoe-leather-perspiration-and-caffeine 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/shoe-leather-perspiration-and-caffeine Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:45:00 GMT Advertisement feature: Oliver Pearson, sales director, British Medical Auctions, asks whether providers are getting the most from their decommissioned and surplus medical equipment.  There is no getting away from the fact that the NHS is under continuing budgetary constraints. Individual hospitals and departments have been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/release-full-market-value-against-surplus-and-decommissioned-assets 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/release-full-market-value-against-surplus-and-decommissioned-assets Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:30:00 GMT The benefits of Scan4Safety have been widely reported as extremely encouraging, with over £700,000 of savings already identified by the six demonstrator sites – mostly as a result of asset-tracking applications that improve inventory management and reduce waste. Patrick Robinson, responsible for healthcare solutions at Datalogic... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/operation-barcode-selecting-technology-to-succeed 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/operation-barcode-selecting-technology-to-succeed Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT Advertisement Feature: Lemarie Moses, product manager of myGP, outlines the app's potential to transform the lives of families across the UK. New data from leading health tech specialist iPLATO Healthcare has revealed that women are driving uptake and usage of smartphone apps to access health services in the UK. The company has... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/women-power-usage-and-uptake-of-mygp 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/women-power-usage-and-uptake-of-mygp Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:00:00 GMT The president of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Professor Derek Alderson, talks about writing letters to patients with absolutely no ‘Surgspeak’ and the possibilities for advances in voice recognition technology to support this. NHE’s David Stevenson reports. Advances in speech recognition technology are constantly... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/why-dont-you-write-to-your-patients 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/why-dont-you-write-to-your-patients Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:30:00 GMT NHE’s Josh Mines reports from NHS Expo 2017, where the digital transformation of the health service was at the top of the agenda.  Unsurprisingly, the topic of digital transformation and the future modernisation of NHS records, systems and services was a key talking point at NHS Expo 2017.  In a year where trusts had... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/digital-nhs-from-press-release-to-reality 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/digital-nhs-from-press-release-to-reality Wed, 04 Oct 2017 08:00:00 GMT Ian Harbinson, marketing manager at Lec Medical, discusses the importance of safe vaccine storage and the developments within medical refrigeration designed for the NHS. There are daily headlines surrounding the NHS, its funding and, of course, the overall health of the nation. As these subjects dominate the news, there has never been so... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/maximising-vaccine-storage-safety 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/maximising-vaccine-storage-safety Mon, 04 Sep 2017 10:00:00 GMT As a new report this month points to the ‘huge differences in the amounts different trusts are paying for similar surgical products’, Peter Akid, director of procurement at NHS Shared Business Services, explains how the Getting It Right First Time report on general surgery mirrors a wider problem across all areas of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/good-procurement-is-the-shared-responsibility-of-all-staff 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/good-procurement-is-the-shared-responsibility-of-all-staff Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:00:00 GMT Mike Lees, head of business security at Barnsley Hospital NHS FT, talks to NHE about the organisation’s innovative approach to securing the trust’s estate. From left to right: Lisa Corbridge, Trust LSMS; Mike Lees, head of business security; Dean Ellis, security site manager; and Peyton Needle, surveillance camera... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/securing-the-health-service-with-openness-and-transparency 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/securing-the-health-service-with-openness-and-transparency Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:30:00 GMT Phil Richardson, Dorset STP lead director, explains why primary and community care are at the heart of the area’s transformation efforts. As one of the recently announced accountable care systems, Dorset STP is fortunate to have a working partnership arrangement involving all health and local authority organisations that provide... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-health-and-care-the-dorset-story 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-health-and-care-the-dorset-story Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:30:00 GMT Professor John Middleton (pictured), president of the Faculty of Public Health (FPH), looks at the opportunities and challenges facing public health reform in the UK. The FPH is the standard-setting body for specialist public health in the UK. We define public health as “the science and art of promoting and protecting health and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/pursuing-the-best-possible-health-for-the-people-we-serve 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/pursuing-the-best-possible-health-for-the-people-we-serve Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:30:00 GMT Eran David, chief technology officer of iMDsoft, talks about how current trends may affect healthcare trust operations in the future. It is breathtaking to read the statistics highlighting the sheer growth of data that is being captured globally. For example, every two days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/data-explosion-and-ageing-population-meet-in-the-hospital 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/data-explosion-and-ageing-population-meet-in-the-hospital Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT Yvonne Coghill OBE, NHS England’s director, Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) Implementation, explains that we need to celebrate that the health service wants to embrace and tackle the difficult race equality agenda. “One of the diseases of the health service is that we make great speeches to each other, but we... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/continuing-to-shine-a-light-on-workforce-race-equality 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/continuing-to-shine-a-light-on-workforce-race-equality Tue, 01 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT NHE’s Luana Salles outlines everything health and care organisations need to know to prepare for the switch from the legacy N3 to a new, interoperable connectivity network with a rich offer of suppliers. The NHS is undergoing major transformation. With ambitious visions including the sustainability and transformation plans (STPs)... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-supplier-network-fit-for-an-integrated-sector 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-supplier-network-fit-for-an-integrated-sector Tue, 01 Aug 2017 07:30:00 GMT Just before NHE went to press, Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark issued a letter entitled ‘the UK wants to continue to work with the EU on medicines’. David Stevenson reports on this and recent discussions around Brexit. An “important and welcome signal”. These are the words of Niall Dickson, CEO of NHS Confederation and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-welcome-signal-on-the-future-of-medicines 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-welcome-signal-on-the-future-of-medicines Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:00:00 GMT NHE hears from Jim Mackey and Lord Carter of Coles about the ongoing efficiency challenge. At Confed17, Jim Mackey and Simon Stevens both commended the health sector for its efforts in the past 12 months to break even financially in 2016-17. The provider sector finished the year with a deficit of £791m, but this was covered with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/get-ready-to-do-it-all-over-again 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/get-ready-to-do-it-all-over-again Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:30:00 GMT NHE’s Luana Salles and Josh Mines report from this year’s Commissioning Show, co-located with Health+Care, which served to highlight that isolated working is now a thing of the past. Clinical commissioning, like the rest of the health and care landscape, is radically changing. Rather than focusing on institutions, CCGs are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/breaking-down-silos-at-the-commissioning-show 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/breaking-down-silos-at-the-commissioning-show Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMT It is no secret that budgetary constraints in healthcare are, to put it mildly, tight. Despite best efforts to centralise, rationalise and undersize NHS spending, the enormous and perennial top-down financial pressures inevitably filter down to the individual clinic and hospital department where the most difficult spending decisions have to be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/financing-options-explained-how-to-control-capital-expenditure-on-healthcare-equipment 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/financing-options-explained-how-to-control-capital-expenditure-on-healthcare-equipment Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:00:00 GMT Established in 2006, iPLATO’s solutions have proven to improve patient access to healthcare and early diagnosis, enabling powerful health promotion and support for citizens living with long-term conditions. iPLATO Healthcare has been awarded a contract by the Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare (SBRI Healthcare) to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/introducing-intelligent-care-navigation 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/introducing-intelligent-care-navigation Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:30:00 GMT The International Association of Medical Equipment Remarketers and Servicers (IAMERS) outlines the benefits of Independent Service Operators in servicing and maintaining medical imaging equipment. Diagnostic Medical Imaging (DI) is part of the broader market of “medical devices”. It has revolutionised healthcare over the years... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/third-party-maintenance-providers-an-unfulfilled-potential-for-patients-and-paymasters 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/third-party-maintenance-providers-an-unfulfilled-potential-for-patients-and-paymasters Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:30:00 GMT Adam Irvine, chief executive of Greater Manchester Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC), explains how, unlike many sustainability and transformation plan (STP) areas, community pharmacy has an active voice in all the region’s key forums. Greater Manchester devolution is now one year old. National requirements such as quality... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/community-pharmacy-a-vital-link 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/community-pharmacy-a-vital-link Tue, 27 Jun 2017 05:30:00 GMT Paul Briddock, director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), comments on the recent Lords Select Committee report on the long-term sustainability of the NHS. The recent Lords Select Committee report on the long-term sustainability of the NHS addressed concerns about the ‘short-sighted’ views... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/getting-our-priorities-right-a-step-towards-a-longer-term-view 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/getting-our-priorities-right-a-step-towards-a-longer-term-view Fri, 16 Jun 2017 07:00:00 GMT A Freedom of Information (FoI) investigation by NHE has revealed that over the last five years ‘quality of care’ complaints have increased at mental health trusts in England. Josh Mines analyses the findings. Improving mental health services has been a central talking point over the last few years. In NHS England’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-time-to-complain- 420,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-time-to-complain- Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT Dr Harpreet Sood, associate chief clinical information officer (CCIO) at NHS England and lead on NHS Digital Academy, gives an update on the progress of the Academy and its aims. At last year’s NHS Expo, following the release of Dr Robert Wachter’s ‘Making IT Work Harnessing the Power of Health Information Technology to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/creating-a-world-class-health-informatics-workforce 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/creating-a-world-class-health-informatics-workforce Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT During e-Health Week a panel of experts discussed the benefits of place-based commissioning. NHE's David Stevenson reports. Back in 2015, The King’s Fund published its ‘Place-based systems of care: A way forward for the NHS in England’ report. It argued that NHS organisations need to move away from a ‘fortress... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/making-place-based-commissioning-a-reality-with-digital 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/making-place-based-commissioning-a-reality-with-digital Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:30:00 GMT We talk to Ben Dyson, executive director of strategy at NHS Improvement (NHSI). What are NHSI’s main policy objectives for the next 12 months? Our core objectives remain the same: to support NHS providers improve their quality of care, financial performance and performance against NHS Constitution standards. To help us achieve all... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/60-seconds-with-nhsis-ben-dyson 420,412,428 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/60-seconds-with-nhsis-ben-dyson Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:30:00 GMT Sean Brennan, director of communications for the Institute of Health Records and Information Management (IHRIM), reflects on the drive to get rid of paper in the NHS and the place for clinical data standards in that process. The latest in a long line of reports calling for NHS IT/technology improvement is called ‘Making IT Work:... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/paperlight-is-the-outcome-and-not-the-objective-of-a-digital-nhs 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/paperlight-is-the-outcome-and-not-the-objective-of-a-digital-nhs Tue, 04 Apr 2017 08:00:00 GMT The surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, reflects on how complying with his code could help trusts save money and improve the efficiency of their surveillance activity. Early in the year, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis rejected the surveillance camera commissioner’s recommendation that NHS trusts should be regulated by... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-effective-is-your-surveillance 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-effective-is-your-surveillance Tue, 04 Apr 2017 02:30:00 GMT An innovative and free virtual reality app is significantly helping anxious children, their parents and even medical students deal with the unnerving experience of having a scan, Jonathan Ashmore (pictured), an MRI physicist at King’s College Hospital NHS FT, tells NHE. For Jonathan Ashmore, whose office is just a stone’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/my-first-mri 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/my-first-mri Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT Maintaining and improving muscle strength and the ability to balance is crucial to reduce the risk of falling, but it is also critical in helping people live independently as they get older, writes Louise Ansari, director of communications and programme manager for physical activity at the Centre for Ageing Better. People are living... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/strength-and-balance-the-key-to-falls-prevention 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/strength-and-balance-the-key-to-falls-prevention Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT NHE looks at the early proposals for estates efficiency already starting to emerge from England’s 44 sustainability and transformation plans (STPs). While money (or a lack thereof) takes up most of the headlines in the national press, anyone who lives and breathes the NHS knows that reforming and upgrading its estates will be a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-shape-of-estates-under-stps 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-shape-of-estates-under-stps Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:30:00 GMT Shirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), explains how we must look beyond the core public health workforce to meet the challenges of 2017. It would be easy to be gloomy about the prospects for public health in 2017. As in many other areas of public spending, year-on-year cuts are a reality we are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/firefighter-and-pharmacists-empowering-the-wider-public-health-workforce 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/firefighter-and-pharmacists-empowering-the-wider-public-health-workforce Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:30:00 GMT Julian Amey, chief executive of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM), reflects on the challenges facing NHS estates teams. In the Jan/Feb issue of NHE, Paul Fenton, national chairman of the Health Estates and Facilities Management Association (HefmA), explained why he thought collaboration would be the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-holistic-approach-is-needed-to-tackle-estate-issues 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-holistic-approach-is-needed-to-tackle-estate-issues Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT NHE’s Josh Mines investigates the state of digital NHS services and what can be done to increase participation of demographics with limited access and knowledge of modern technology. Technology is transforming the way that services can be delivered to patients. For example, the digitisation of GP services offers a plethora of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/closing-the-digital-inequality-gap 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/closing-the-digital-inequality-gap Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:30:00 GMT Simon Corben, NHS Improvement’s (NHSI’s) director and head of profession for estates and facilities, talks to NHE’s David Stevenson about the plans to drive estates change over the next 12 months. Last year, Lord Carter’s operational productivity review put forward a number of recommendations to improve efficiency... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-a-robust-argument-for-estates-change 420,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-a-robust-argument-for-estates-change Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:30:00 GMT Winter is traditionally the busiest time for the NHS. This winter has – in many respects – been the worst for many years.  Demand has climbed to record levels in the midst of the longest and deepest financial squeeze in the history of the health service, writes Deborah Gulliver, senior research analyst at NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/we-need-a-new-approach-to-winter-pressures- 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/we-need-a-new-approach-to-winter-pressures- Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:45:00 GMT Writing on behalf of NHS Providers, Peter Ward, director of healthcare projects at John Laing, explains why trusts need a new approach to get the best value from their assets. Our NHS providers are sailing into a perfect storm. Increasing volume and complexity of demand has not been matched by the money available, and there has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/capital-investment-critical-to-help-weather-the-storm 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/capital-investment-critical-to-help-weather-the-storm Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:30:00 GMT Jim Forsyth and Jane Goodall from Hertfordshire NHS Procurement explain how a cross-regional approach has allowed six trusts to tackle agency spend. Lord Carter's review into productivity within hospitals across England unsurprisingly urged NHS trusts to collaborate across a number of different functions, in an attempt to increase... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-collaborative-approach-to-tackling-agency 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-collaborative-approach-to-tackling-agency Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:30:00 GMT NHE’s Luana Salles looks back at what the Friends and Family Test (FFT) has achieved since its genesis in 2013, and what NHS England will be focusing on this coming year. NHS England’s FFT, the largest-ever initiative to harness public opinion about NHS services, was first launched in April 2013, rolling out over a two-year... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/unleashing-the-benefits-of-patient-feedback 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/unleashing-the-benefits-of-patient-feedback Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:45:00 GMT Professor Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive and director of health and social care at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), talks to NHE’s David Stevenson about the work the organisation is doing around quality standards for healthy workplaces. This year, NICE is due to publish quality standards and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/driving-quality-improvement-in-healthy-workplaces 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/driving-quality-improvement-in-healthy-workplaces Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:30:00 GMT Paul Gibson, interim programme manager at Sunderland CCG, explains how a new care home tablet is helping transform the way that healthcare professionals are spotting early signs of illness. As NHE went to press, the successful roll-out of a new technology, which uses universal medical assessments to track the health and wellbeing of older... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/joining-up-care-in-sunderland- 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/joining-up-care-in-sunderland- Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:00:00 GMT New data suggests that cancer services in more than 85% of CCGs are failing to provide adequate care for patients. But NHS Gloucestershire CCG talks to NHE's David Stevenson about how it has improved services through a county-wide improvement project. In October, NHS England published the first set of CCG Improvement and Assessment... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/boosting-education-to-deliver-better-cancer-outcomes 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/boosting-education-to-deliver-better-cancer-outcomes Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:30:00 GMT Stephen Elgar from the Information Governance Alliance (IGA) reflects on the changes and challenges facing information governance professionals in the NHS. Cyber security threats, the need for innovations and increasing pressure on back-office staff to deliver greater efficiencies are three of the biggest challenges facing information... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/changing-times-for-information-governance-in-the-nhs 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/changing-times-for-information-governance-in-the-nhs Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:30:00 GMT As part of its health devolution programme, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) explains how patients were given a major voice in overhauling the region’s cancer services. NHE’s Luana Salles reports. As part of its acute standardisation programme, GMCA has invited cancer patients in the region to help design a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/cancer-patients-at-the-helm-of-service-redesign 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/cancer-patients-at-the-helm-of-service-redesign Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:15:00 GMT Jonathan McKee, governance manager at Tavistock and Portman NHS FT, and a co-chair of the London IG Forum, talks to NHE about the biggest challenges facing NHS IT. The biggest problems in the NHS with regards to IT is “dealing with rapidly evolving technology and the implications for the safety of patient data”, NHE has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-challenges-of-evolving-technology-and-the-paperless-deadline 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-challenges-of-evolving-technology-and-the-paperless-deadline Wed, 07 Dec 2016 06:30:00 GMT An ongoing consultation by NICE and NHS England is proposing a series of important changes to the way the bodies appraise new drugs and technologies in the country. NHE’s Luana Salles reports. NHS England and NICE have kick-started a 12-week joint consultation on proposed changes to how the bodies evaluate and fund drugs and other... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/fast-tracking-drugs-through-streamlined-collaboration 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/fast-tracking-drugs-through-streamlined-collaboration Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:45:00 GMT Eight months on from the Place-Based Health Commission’s final report, Lord Victor Adebowale talks to NHE about the impact of STPs on bespoke health and the leftover challenges in achieving integrated care. Back in March, the Place-Based Health Commission, chaired by Lord Victor Adebowale and co-hosted by independent CIC Collaborate... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/getting-well-together 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/getting-well-together Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:45:00 GMT Andrew Rose, senior policy officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), discusses what actions NHS organisations can do to improve their data security compliance. Cyber-attacks are a growing concern in the NHS, but the majority of data security breaches are still down to manual issues, according to the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/tackling-old-and-new-threats-to-data-security 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/tackling-old-and-new-threats-to-data-security Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:15:00 GMT Pauline Hull from electivecesarean.com looks at whether the aim of reducing caesarean rates is improving outcomes.  Caesareans save lives, but for several decades, NHS maternity policy has focused on reducing caesarean rates and increasing rates of ‘normal’ birth, without communicating evidence of improved outcomes for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/caesarean-rates-dont-indicate-quality-of-care-and-targets-are-dangerous 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/caesarean-rates-dont-indicate-quality-of-care-and-targets-are-dangerous Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT Paul Briddock, director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), discusses the new two-year operational planning guidance. Last month, NHS England announced its first two-year operational planning guidance, and set out strict new requirements for providers to meet the challenges facing the NHS in 2017-18 and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/no-easy-fix-to-problems-facing-nhs-finance-despite-new-planning-guidance 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/no-easy-fix-to-problems-facing-nhs-finance-despite-new-planning-guidance Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:30:00 GMT Dr Michael Dixon OBE, GP, former chair of NHS Alliance and former president of NHS Clinical Commissioners, discusses the role of technology in health and social care.  We talk plenty about re-organising health and social care and co-funding, but very little is done in practice. In the meantime, pressures from a growing ageing... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/we-must-act-now-so-technology-can-help-transform-health-and-social-care 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/we-must-act-now-so-technology-can-help-transform-health-and-social-care Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:15:00 GMT Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG (IESCCG) won the ‘Innovation in Diabetes Care’ accolade at this year’s Healthcare Transformation Awards. Dr John Flather, diabetes lead for the organisation, explains what has been achieved through an integrated care model. Over the last three years, Type 2 diabetes care in Ipswich and East... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-outcomes-through-integrated-diabetes-care 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-outcomes-through-integrated-diabetes-care Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:30:00 GMT Along with optimising land usage and promoting co-location, a radical new report makes the case for rationalising all local NHS estate into one body. NHE’s Luana Salles reports. As with the rest of the public sector, estate management has been a key focus across the NHS in recent months. Whether that’s in the form of NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-crown-estate-of-health-and-care 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-crown-estate-of-health-and-care Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:30:00 GMT Chris Slater, associate director of commercial and procurement at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, talks to NHE’s David Stevenson about the progress being made as part of the Scan4Safety project. At the beginning of this year, the Department of Health (DH) announced that six NHS acute trusts (see box-out, overleaf) had been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-scan4safety-journey 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-scan4safety-journey Mon, 03 Oct 2016 04:00:00 GMT During this year’s NHS Expo health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans to develop an NHS Digital Academy. David Stevenson reports. In order for the digitisation of the NHS to succeed there needs to be significant investment in the development and support of clinical informatician leaders, according to an independent report into NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-digital-academy-delivering-a-digital-workforce 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-digital-academy-delivering-a-digital-workforce Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:30:00 GMT On the first day of NHS Expo, Dr Robert Wachter released his report ‘Making IT work: harnessing the power of health information technology to improve care in England’. David Stevenson reports from the session. The Making IT Work report, led by the ‘digital doctor’ Dr Robert Wachter, made for sober reading at its... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/realigning-the-delivery-of-hospital-digitisation 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/realigning-the-delivery-of-hospital-digitisation Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:00 GMT The most transformative but difficult challenge for healthcare is delivering digital services on a par with other sectors for an increasingly tech-savvy population, writes NHS Digital’s director of programmes, James Hawkins. The last decade has seen a momentous shift in the way that society interacts with online technology.  We... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/widening-digital-patient-participation 420,419,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/widening-digital-patient-participation Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:00 GMT Despite timescales being tight and potentially a “little too optimistic”, the fact that the Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Programme (HPTP) has come under the remit of NHS Improvement (NHSI) means “something will happen”, NHE has been told.  A Department of Health (DH) spokesperson who has been involved with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/optimism-for-improving-pharmacy-eprocurement 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/optimism-for-improving-pharmacy-eprocurement Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:00:00 GMT David Stevenson, Rosemary Collins and Luana Salles report from this year’s Health and Care Innovation Expo, which was held at Manchester Central from 7-8 September. This year’s Expo set the scene for a changing landscape across the NHS, from health devolution to the realignment of the IT implementation programme. Attended by... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-expo-review-change-is-coming- 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-expo-review-change-is-coming- Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:15:00 GMT The efforts and contributions of clinical support workers can often go unnoticed. Ian Wheeler, head of research at Skills for Health, explains how through the Our Health Heroes awards we can celebrate these valued members of the workforce.  Clinical support workers and operational service staff play critical roles, ensuring that... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-honour-our-health-heroes- 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-honour-our-health-heroes- Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:15:00 GMT NHE is proud to announce that we’ve become the official media partner for the inaugural Our Health Heroes Awards 2016 – the UK’s only dedicated award scheme to celebrate the healthcare support workforce.  Organised by Skills for Health, National Skills Academy for Health and Unison, the awards recognise and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhe-supports-our-health-heroes-awards-2016-as-official-media-partner 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhe-supports-our-health-heroes-awards-2016-as-official-media-partner Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:00:00 GMT Colin Royle, director of Peoplehub, explains why third party providers for personal health budgets can often be the best option for patients.  When people first discuss the option of receiving a personal health budget, it’s not uncommon for questions to be raised. Many aspects sound appealing to individuals, such as the ability... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/taking-back-control-of-personal-health-budgets 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/taking-back-control-of-personal-health-budgets Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:45:00 GMT As headlines regarding the NHS, GP Practices and healthcare establishments continue to dominate the news, the emphasis on over-spending, wastage and the improvement of facilities as well as staff training has never been more important. And with flu season rapidly approaching, Carolyn Holland, product marketing manager at Lec Medical, gives her... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/lec-medical-how-to-keep-your-vaccines-stored-safely 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/lec-medical-how-to-keep-your-vaccines-stored-safely Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:00:00 GMT Dr Mark Davies, former medical director of the Health and Social Care Information Centre and GP of 20 years, reflects on the recent Caldicott review.  This month saw the publication of Dame Fiona Caldicott’s long-awaited review into data security in the NHS. This is the third time Dame Fiona has been asked to produce some... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/caldicott-review-third-time-lucky- 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/caldicott-review-third-time-lucky- Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:30:00 GMT NHE’s Luana Salles and Rosemary Collins look back at this year’s Commissioning Show, co-located with Health+Care, and reflect on how NHS organisations are preparing themselves for full-scale service collaboration. As a practical example of the nationwide push for integration between health and social care, and for the first... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/all-set-for-an-integrated-future-at-the-commissioning-show 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/all-set-for-an-integrated-future-at-the-commissioning-show Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:30:00 GMT NHE’s David Stevenson reports from an NHS Confederation session which focused on workforce productivity and tackling bullying in the system. In early June the NHS Equality and Diversity Council published the inaugural NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), which exposed the degree of racial discrimination and bullying across... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/cracking-down-on-all-types-of-workforce-bullying 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/cracking-down-on-all-types-of-workforce-bullying Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:30:00 GMT NHE’s Rosemary Collins reports on the importance of strong leaders to drive the diversity agenda in the NHS. This year’s NHS Confederation revealed widespread determination to introduce leadership that can tackle discrimination against ethnic minorities, women and other marginalised groups in the NHS.  Shortly before... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ambition-alone-will-not-change-diversity-landscape-in-the-nhs 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ambition-alone-will-not-change-diversity-landscape-in-the-nhs Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:15:00 GMT NHE’s David Stevenson, Luana Salles and Rosemary Collins look back at the key points from this year’s NHS Confederation Annual Conference & Exhibition. There was an air of uncertainty and trepidation at this year’s NHS Confederation Annual Conference & Exhibition, which was held at Manchester Central from 15-17... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-confederation-the-reset-year 405,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-confederation-the-reset-year Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:00:00 GMT NHE’s Rosemary Collins talks to Professor David A. Shore, a former associate dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and one of the world’s leading authorities on managing change and gaining competitive advantage, who believes that internationally-used management strategies can help solve the challenges facing the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-effectively-manage-change 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-effectively-manage-change Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:00:00 GMT Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have been all NHS and council leaders can talk about in recent months. But do they have what it takes to truly transform the health and social care system, and are organisations up for the challenge? Luana Salles reports. One of the most memorable analogies made during this year’s NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/are-we-up-for-the-challenge-of-the-stps 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/are-we-up-for-the-challenge-of-the-stps Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:00:00 GMT At this year’s Health+Care Show, NHS England’s national lead for primary and acute care systems (PACS) in the New Care Models programme, Jacob West, updated attendees on the recent progress of the up-and-coming Vanguards. Luana Salles reports. One of the first things attendees heard at this year’s Health+Care conference... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/vanguards-from-set-up-to-delivery 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/vanguards-from-set-up-to-delivery Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:00:00 GMT Andrew Mccracken (pictured) from National Voices, the leading coalition of 160 health and care charities, discusses the fundamental importance of engaging people and communities at every level to deliver the FYFV. Health and care services need a ‘new relationship with patients and communities’ and we have not yet... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/fyvw-six-principles-for-engaging-people-and-communities 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/fyvw-six-principles-for-engaging-people-and-communities Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:30:00 GMT Tim Ryley, director of strategic planning and governance at Stockport CCG, runs through a new service that has cut down on costs, time and red tape by quickly connecting GPs to specialist consultants during appointments. “Imagine I’m a patient who is sat with a GP with a particular need,” Tim Ryley, Stockport CCG’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/specialist-advice-at-the-touch-of-a-button 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/specialist-advice-at-the-touch-of-a-button Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:00:00 GMT On the 180th birthday of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Thursday 9 June), interim managing director of the NHS Leadership Academy, Karen Lynas, looks back at who she was and the impact she’s made.  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson had some remarkable privilege; intelligent, tenacious, curious, ambitious, she was lucky enough to have a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/celebrating-the-legacy-of-elizabeth-garrett-anderson- 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/celebrating-the-legacy-of-elizabeth-garrett-anderson- Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:30:00 GMT Richard Ford, costing director at NHS Improvement, explains why good quality costing needs to be a priority for the NHS.  NHS Improvement’s latest analysis of NHS trust’s performance shows the sector as a whole reported a deficit of £2.45bn for 2015-16; and that almost 90% of acute providers ended the year in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-improvement-better-healthcare-costing-equals-better-decision-making 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-improvement-better-healthcare-costing-equals-better-decision-making Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:45:00 GMT Sue Lorimer, Future-Focused Finance diversity lead and business director at NHS Improvement, discusses gender and diversity within NHS finance. Like many sectors, it’s no secret that the NHS has a long way to go in promoting diversity within senior finance roles. I’ve been exploring the lack of women in these positions, and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/taking-a-look-at-diversity-within-nhs-finance 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/taking-a-look-at-diversity-within-nhs-finance Wed, 01 Jun 2016 09:30:00 GMT Rebecca Lawton, professor of psychology at the University of Leeds, and an academic advisor to the Y&H AHSN Improvement Academy, talks to NHE’s David Stevenson about behaviour change and the impact it can have on patient safety. “Many things we do in healthcare to improve safety, such as the introduction of new... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/behaviour-change-for-patient-safety 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/behaviour-change-for-patient-safety Thu, 26 May 2016 16:30:00 GMT Andrea Jenkyns, MP for Morley and Outwood and founder of the ‘Handz’ hand hygiene campaign, refocuses the attention that must be paid to the prevention of healthcare associated infections (HCAIs). After personally experiencing the devastating impact of HCAIs, and recent data indicating a rise in the number of cases recorded, Ms... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-mps-view-advancing-hand-hygiene-compliance-in-the-nhs 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-mps-view-advancing-hand-hygiene-compliance-in-the-nhs Thu, 05 May 2016 14:30:00 GMT Liz Felton, CEO of Together for Mental Wellbeing, a national charity working alongside people with mental health issues, discusses the lack of progress on reducing mental health waiting times.  The National Audit Office has reported that the government is unlikely to meet its pledge to bring waiting times for mental health in line... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/why-are-we-still-waiting-for-progress-on-waiting-times-in-mental-health 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/why-are-we-still-waiting-for-progress-on-waiting-times-in-mental-health Wed, 04 May 2016 10:30:00 GMT Emeritus Professor W Angus Wallace discusses how the current situation with junior doctors is in danger of destroying the NHS as we know it.  The National Health Service is a treasure created in 1948, that we all wish to preserve. This week has been one of the saddest weeks ever for the NHS but what is happening was totally... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/addressing-the-april-2016-nhs-crisis 420,421 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/addressing-the-april-2016-nhs-crisis Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:15:00 GMT Two northern commissioning support units (CSUs) were closing their doors as NHE went to press, with uncertainty remaining over potential job losses. David Stevenson reports. As NHE reported last year, Yorkshire and Humber Commissioning Support (YHCS) and North West Commissioning Support Unit (NWCSU) were the only two CSUs to fail to get... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/lessons-to-learn-from-commissioning-support-closures 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/lessons-to-learn-from-commissioning-support-closures Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:30:00 GMT NHE’s Rosemary Collins reports on the potential benefits mindfulness courses can deliver for NHS staff and patients. Growing evidence suggests mindfulness practice could revolutionise the health sector, preventing costly long-term problems by providing staff and patients with the mental health tools to cope with... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/can-mindfulness-safeguard-staff-mental-wellbeing- 420,408,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/can-mindfulness-safeguard-staff-mental-wellbeing- Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:00:00 GMT John Lee, head of Nursing Studies at the University of Dundee, who led the NMC revalidation pilot at the organisation, talks to NHE about how revalidation can help deliver professional and organisational change. Nursing and midwifery revalidation can help reinforce positive changes both to individual professionals and institutions if... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/delivering-positive-change-through-revalidation 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/delivering-positive-change-through-revalidation Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:45:00 GMT Head of learning and education at the Royal College of Midwives, Carmel Lloyd, and the Royal College of Nursing’s head of policy and international affairs, Howard Catton, discuss revalidation for their members. As NHE went to press, revalidation, the new process that all nurses and midwives in the UK will need to follow to maintain... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/revalidation-must-be-seen-as-an-improvement-process 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/revalidation-must-be-seen-as-an-improvement-process Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:45:00 GMT In the face of unprecedented challenges and changes in the health sector, the time has come to commission outside the box. NHE’s Luana Salles explores how art programmes can be used to treat physical and mental health conditions – with NHS-friendly budgets. The major expectations from CCGs over the next five years were not... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-art-of-healthy-living 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-art-of-healthy-living Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:45:00 GMT Alison Kingscott, director of human resources and organisational development at Salisbury NHS FT, talks to NHE about the importance of providing a strategic focus to help implement health and wellbeing initiatives for staff. Branding is one of the most important aspects of any business, large or small, and its impact shouldn’t be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/encouraging-staff-wellbeing-in-health-and-care 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/encouraging-staff-wellbeing-in-health-and-care Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT Dan Taylor, programme head of cyber security at the Health and Social Care Information Centre, explains how a co-ordinated approach is being developed to tackle cyber security across the health and social care system. Tackling the growing threat of cyber security across the health and social care sector will require more investment in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/tackling-cyber-security-collectively- 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/tackling-cyber-security-collectively- Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:45:00 GMT Dr Lauren Morgan, lecturer and researcher in human factors and ergonomics at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, talks about the small but growing impact of her profession on the NHS. Dr Lauren Morgan is thought to be the first... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/human-factors-in-practice 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/human-factors-in-practice Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:15:00 GMT Kate Bull, executive director of retail at the Royal Voluntary Service, explains why the charity is taking an early lead to encourage healthy eating across the NHS. At last year’s NHS Innovation Expo Conference, Simon Stevens announced his £5m major drive to improve the health and wellbeing of NHS staff. You may remember the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/healthy-hubs-for-hospitals 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/healthy-hubs-for-hospitals Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:30:00 GMT NHE talks to Steven Campbell, pharmacy technical services manager at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, about how pharmacy automation is delivering financial savings at the trust. Last year the Carter Review suggested the NHS could save £1bn by improving hospital pharmacy and medicines optimisation by 2019-20. At... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/northumbria-tackles-pharmacy-challenges-through-automation 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/northumbria-tackles-pharmacy-challenges-through-automation Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:30:00 GMT Patrick Mitchell, director of national programmes at Health Education England (HEE), talks to NHE about how learning from the Better Training Better Care pilots could help organisations in their seven-day service planning. Health organisations should look at how their education and training programmes align with clinical services and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/better-training-better-care-making-every-moment-count- 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/better-training-better-care-making-every-moment-count- Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:45:00 GMT Adrian Byrne, IT director at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, explains how a new electronic patient record system is providing a firm footing for the future of healthcare in Southampton. Three trusts in Hampshire could soon be saving more than £1m per year thanks to a new electronic health records system. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/electronic-records-to-deliver-significant-savings-for-hampshire-trusts 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/electronic-records-to-deliver-significant-savings-for-hampshire-trusts Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:45:00 GMT Tyrone Roberts, deputy director of nursing at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, explains how the provider cut down on agency by boosting the bank offer and building local relations. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust was one of the five Greater Manchester providers to form a consortium in 2012 designed to help each member work within reasonable... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/back-to-bank 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/back-to-bank Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:45:00 GMT David Stevenson reports on the hard-hitting ‘Making Time In General Practice’ report. Reducing unnecessary bureaucracy in general practice must be a “national priority”, with NHS England taking a lead on the work, according to a new study by NHS Alliance and the Primary Care Foundation.  Commissioned by... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/freeing-gp-capacity-by-reducing-bureaucracy 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/freeing-gp-capacity-by-reducing-bureaucracy Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT Katy Calvin-Thomas is helping lead the ‘Devo Manc’ health and social care transformation, on secondment from her executive director post at Pennine Care NHS FT. The speed of change in Greater Manchester’s health economy brought about by the devolution agenda is startling – an initial announcement in February 2015... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/devo-manc-making-it-stick 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/devo-manc-making-it-stick Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:30:00 GMT Ian Davison, business information services director at the North of England Commissioning Support Unit, discusses how using data can improve outcomes. At the NICE Annual Conference in Liverpool in October, delegates were told about how sharing sensitive data and using medicine dashboards can improve outcomes for commissioners, care... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-outcomes-with-data 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-outcomes-with-data Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:45:00 GMT Sharon Allen OBE, chief executive of Skills for Care and the National Skills Academy for Social Care, talks to NHE about tackling cultural issues to deliver integrated services. Delivering integrated health and social care services effectively will depend on partnerships rather than structural reorganisation, according to the chief... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-better-partnership-approach-for-integrated-health-and-social-care 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-better-partnership-approach-for-integrated-health-and-social-care Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:30:00 GMT David Stevenson looks into medication errors in the NHS. In the last three years more than 500,000 medication errors were reported by NHS organisations to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), according to data obtained by NHE through the Freedom of Information Act.  Nearly a quarter of a million of these errors... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/medication-errors-dont-fear-the-numbers 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/medication-errors-dont-fear-the-numbers Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:15:00 GMT NHE hears from Sir David Dalton about radical proposals to turn groups of foundation trusts into accountable care organisations that would share service standards, governance arrangements and – eventually – take control of local commissioning. It has been a year since the publication of the Dalton Review, and Sir David... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/putting-the-dalton-review-principles-into-practice 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/putting-the-dalton-review-principles-into-practice Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:15:00 GMT NHE talks to Dr Chris Moulton, a consultant in emergency medicine at Bolton NHS FT and vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, about the need for more services in A&E departments. When four medical royal colleges made joint recommendations last year in their ‘Prescribing the remedy’ report to address the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/diversion-is-failing-co-location-is-the-answer 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/diversion-is-failing-co-location-is-the-answer Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:00:00 GMT Dr Anne Connolly, chair of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum, vice-president of the FSRH, and member of the Royal College of GPs’ Sex, Drugs and Blood-borne Viruses Group, speaks to NHE’s Luana Salles. Commissioning for sexual health services first became fragmented in 2012 with the introduction of the Health and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/sexual-health-commissioning-decisions-are-being-driven-by-money-not-quality 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/sexual-health-commissioning-decisions-are-being-driven-by-money-not-quality Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:00:00 GMT Jim Mackey, the new chief executive of NHS Improvement, outlined what providers can expect from the regulator in his first major speech. David Stevenson reports. On day two of the NHS Providers Conference, Ed Smith, the new chair of NHS Improvement, took to the stage briefly stating that he wants to hear more from those who chair... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-fighting-chance-for-the-future-of-providers 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-fighting-chance-for-the-future-of-providers Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:45:00 GMT An NHS Providers conference session on the workforce included contributions from Caroline Corrigan, Paul Bytheway, Rachael Addicott and Julie Screaton. Vanguards don’t need or want a huge wave of fresh clinical roles to deliver new models of care, but instead desire a “transformation” of the current workforce, according... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-the-workforce-to-deliver-new-models-of-care- 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-the-workforce-to-deliver-new-models-of-care- Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:45:00 GMT All NHS acute trusts in England have now registered as GS1 UK members, as mandated by the Department of Health’s eProcurement strategy.  Under the eProcurement strategy, which was published last year, the Department mandated the use of GS1 standards throughout the NHS in England, meaning that every supplier and every NHS trust... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/all-nhs-acute-trusts-in-england-now-gs1-uk-members 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/all-nhs-acute-trusts-in-england-now-gs1-uk-members Wed, 04 Nov 2015 11:00:00 GMT July 2013: Junior doctors under ‘intolerable pressure’ – BMA Negotiations begin for a new contract for junior doctors after feedback showed that some were being forced to work excessive and unsafe hours. The BMA was to enter formal talks with NHS Employers to develop the new contract for doctors and dentists in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/junior-doctor-contracts-dispute-timeline-key-events 420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/junior-doctor-contracts-dispute-timeline-key-events Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:45:00 GMT Toby Richards, professor of surgery at University College London, discusses how improving the management of anaemia in surgical patients could reduce the need for routine blood transfusions and save the NHS millions of pounds. The current standard procedure for patients with anaemia who are to undergo surgery in the UK is blood... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/enabling-more-efficient-anaemia-management 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/enabling-more-efficient-anaemia-management Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:45:00 GMT Aman Dhesi, regional lead for patient blood management at NHS Blood & Transplant, talks to NHE about the development of a new app that could change the behaviour of clinicians in blood transfusion. David Stevenson reports. NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) is working with digital marketing agency HMA to develop a new app to help... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-develop-innovative-blood-transfusion-app-for-clinicians- 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-to-develop-innovative-blood-transfusion-app-for-clinicians- Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:45:00 GMT NHS Blood & Transplant’s Anthony Clarkson, assistant director of organ donation and nursing, tells NHE about the organisation’s message to staff working in healthcare. National Transplant Week ran from 7 to 13 September this year, and many NHS trusts and foundation trusts across the country joined in its efforts to get the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/we-cant-do-this-on-our-own 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/we-cant-do-this-on-our-own Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:30:00 GMT NHE’s Luana Salles looks into a new breed of e-learning and how it can help NHS staff. There is a widespread digital push going on across the NHS. Those present at the recent NHS England Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester could attest to the resounding event-wide effort to bring the state service into the 21st century... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/old-to-gold-the-lucrative-revolution-of-gamified-e-learning 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/old-to-gold-the-lucrative-revolution-of-gamified-e-learning Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:30:00 GMT Andy Shettle, ER Tracker product director at Software Europe, talks to NHE’s David Stevenson about how efficient recording processes for employee relations cases can help NHS trusts go a long way to identifying root causes and ultimately reducing further cases. A full version of this infographic is available at the NHE... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/can-nhs-trusts-be-more-proactive-in-employee-relations-case-management 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/can-nhs-trusts-be-more-proactive-in-employee-relations-case-management Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:15:00 GMT 2gether NHS FT, the mental health and learning disabilities foundation trust for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, is overhauling its clinical IT systems to implement modern digital dictation and speech recognition, as well as new clinical practices. NHE’s Adam Hewitt spoke to the trust’s IT director, Ryan Lewis. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/digitally-speaking 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/digitally-speaking Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMT Wye Valley NHS Trust has become the second trust to opt for an open source EPR. NHE spoke to Simon Lind, project and portfolio manager for the implementation at the trust, and Leesa Ewing from supplier IMS Maxims. Wye Valley, the acute and community services provider for Herefordshire, also serving parts of Powys, is starting a two-year... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/open-source-future 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/open-source-future Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:45:00 GMT Dr Tony Lloyd, chief executive of the ADHD Foundation, explains the challenges facing doctors in treating ADHD. Over the last decade the number of prescriptions for drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has doubled in the UK, but this isn’t a simple case of over-prescribing, NHE has been told.  Dr... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/no-evidence-base-for-adhd-over-diagnosis 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/no-evidence-base-for-adhd-over-diagnosis Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:00:00 GMT Stefanie Rutherford, senior co-commissioning manager at NHS England, discusses the early challenges and opportunities identified by CCGs on primary care commissioning. Reflecting on the first six months since taking on primary care co-commissioning duties, CCGs have reported challenges in finding the money and staff time to take on the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ccgs-early-challenges-but-primary-care-co-commissioning-progressing-well 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ccgs-early-challenges-but-primary-care-co-commissioning-progressing-well Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:00:00 GMT Jim O’Brien, national programme director on the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme at Public Health England, talks about the need for a ‘culturally sensitive’ programme. More than 60% of CCGs and local authority partnerships have submitted expressions of interest to become first-wave implementers of the national NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/one-size-fits-all-approach-not-right-for-diabetes-prevention 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/one-size-fits-all-approach-not-right-for-diabetes-prevention Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:45:00 GMT Lucy Pitt, marketing director for the Patient First conference, talks about grassroots innovations in patient safety across the UK. The legacy of the Francis report into Mid Staffordshire, the Keogh review into trusts with unusually high mortality rates and the Berwick review on behalf of the prime minister is system-wide acknowledgement... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/patient-safety-innovations-at-patient-first 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/patient-safety-innovations-at-patient-first Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:30:00 GMT NHE’s Adam Hewitt, David Stevenson and Luana Salles report from NHS England’s innovation event. The return of the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 to Manchester this year saw an array of speakers from across the sector sharing their experiences, plans and goals for transformation.  There were about 5,000 people... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/health-and-care-innovation-expo-2015 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/health-and-care-innovation-expo-2015 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:00:00 GMT A new study has looked at the important role GP receptionists play in directing stroke patients towards timely, emergency care. However, there is room for improvement, as report author Dr James Sheppard, a Medical Research Council Research Fellow from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, explains... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/room-for-improvement-in-gp-receptionist-stroke-referral 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/room-for-improvement-in-gp-receptionist-stroke-referral Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:00:00 GMT As NHE went to the printers, Health Education England was still evaluating the results of the national emergency pharmacy pilot. We spoke to Howard Duff, Royal Pharmaceutical Society director of England, who is an advocate of the programme. There is a “growing interest” across the country in using pharmacists more widely in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-bite-the-bullet-on-utilising-pharmacists 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-bite-the-bullet-on-utilising-pharmacists Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:00:00 GMT Dr Martin Gray, chief clinical information officer at St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the importance of clinician involvement in developing a closed loop medication administration capability. St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the first major teaching hospital in the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/taking-electronic-patient-record-maturity-to-the-next-level-at-st-georges 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/taking-electronic-patient-record-maturity-to-the-next-level-at-st-georges Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:30:00 GMT Adam Hewitt reports on the latest round of NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes, including an interview with Emma Bownas, quality manager at one of last year’s winners, Greater Huddersfield CCG. The NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes have helped neat ideas become business-as-usual, have identified and helped spread innovative practice... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/innovation-challenge-prizes 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/innovation-challenge-prizes Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:45:00 GMT NHE’s Sam McCaffrey finds out more about the CQC inspection process from those who actually undertake them. He spoke to Mary Cridge, head of hospital inspection at the CQC. They can be seen as a hugely disruptive force: coming into hospitals, asking endless questions, poking around in dark corners, reviewing notes, always watching... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/hospital-inspections-the-cqc-point-of-view 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/hospital-inspections-the-cqc-point-of-view Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:30:00 GMT Helen Lisle (pictured), associate director of procurement at County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the interim report from Lord Carter of Coles on NHS efficiencies and the need to empower procurement professionals in the sector. Lord Carter of Coles’ interim review into the operational productivity of NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-empower-procurement-professionals-in-the-nhs 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-empower-procurement-professionals-in-the-nhs Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:45:00 GMT “Providers have three months to improve their incomplete (18 Weeks RTT) performance before contract sanctions increase.” Nikki Brunt, technical delivery and training manager at Project Source, explains their options. From our experience of working with over 70 acute trusts, we have seen that on average at least 10% of pathway... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/are-you-ready-for-1-october 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/are-you-ready-for-1-october Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:30:00 GMT With nationwide caesarean rates higher than ever and well above the World Health Organisation’s recommendation, it’s safe to say nearly every trust in England has developed a section problem, reports NHE’s Luana Salles. Caesarean section rates, which should theoretically be kept between 10-15%, now vary from 16% to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/caesarean-sections-are-women-being-given-a-choice 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/caesarean-sections-are-women-being-given-a-choice Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:30:00 GMT NHS England’s director of commissioning support services strategy Bob Ricketts CBE discusses the challenges facing commissioners in the next year. The next year will be a period of “transition” for commissioners in a landscape that has never been as challenging in terms of rising demand and increasingly intolerant public... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-environment-has-never-been-more-challenging 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-environment-has-never-been-more-challenging Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:30:00 GMT The NHS Confederation returned to Liverpool’s ACC in June to listen, learn, take stock and get inspired by everything happening across the health service. Influential leaders and managers from the worlds of commissioning, policy, provider trusts, private healthcare, the supply chain, politics and outside the NHS attended, engaged... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-confederation-annual-conference-2015 405,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-confederation-annual-conference-2015 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:00:00 GMT More than 8,000 people attended the combined Health+Care and Commissioning Show 2015, engaging with the sector’s biggest organisations and companies and hearing from virtually everyone who matters in healthcare. Sam McCaffrey and David Stevenson report. NHE was the official media partner for the Commissioning Show, and our team were... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-show-2015 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-show-2015 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:30:00 GMT Dr Caron Morton, co-chair of the Urgent and Emergency Care National Steering Group, gave a presentation at the Commissioning Show outlining what to expect from the review between now and 2017. Urgent care has to change fundamentally and cannot remain focused on A&E, according to Dr Caron Morton, the accountable officer at Shropshire... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/urgent-and-emergency-care-review 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/urgent-and-emergency-care-review Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:15:00 GMT Sam McCaffrey reports on the difficulty of holding NHS commissioners and their contractors to account in a world of commercial confidentiality. “The information you requested is being withheld in reliance on the exemption at section 43(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act because it is commercially sensitive... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/lack-of-oversight-the-monitoring-of-contracts-for-outsourced-nhs-services 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/lack-of-oversight-the-monitoring-of-contracts-for-outsourced-nhs-services Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:30:00 GMT Earlier this year, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recommended that paramedics should, for the first time, be added to the ‘shortage occupation list’, which would allow positions to be “sensibly” filled using labour from outside Europe.  At the time, Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) evidence... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/paramedic-workforce-shortfall--is-it-solvable 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/paramedic-workforce-shortfall--is-it-solvable Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:15:00 GMT NHE talks to Royal Pharmaceutical Society policy and practice lead for England, Heidi Wright, about the organisation’s new role as a member of the Coalition for Collaborative Care. The Coalition for Collaborative Care (C4CC) was launched in November 2014 to support the 15 million people with long-term conditions and to help make... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/coalition-for-collaborative-care 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/coalition-for-collaborative-care Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:30:00 GMT NHE’s David Stevenson gives a progress update on the national emergency department pharmacy pilot. In the March/April 2015 edition of NHE, we reported that the Health Education England (HEE)-led national emergency department (ED) pharmacy pilot was due to start in March.  Running for a period of five weeks, from 2 March to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/hee-evaluating-results-of-national-emergency-department-pharmacy-pilot 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/hee-evaluating-results-of-national-emergency-department-pharmacy-pilot Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:30:00 GMT Paul Adams, head of primary care and community services in north-west Glasgow, and Dr Kate McCusker, lead pharmacist at Macmillan Pharmacy Service, discuss how an innovative pharmacy scheme is helping to shift the balance of palliative care services away from the acute sector to a more financially sustainable community-based service. The... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/national-recognition-for-innovative-palliative-care-pharmacy-scheme 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/national-recognition-for-innovative-palliative-care-pharmacy-scheme Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:30:00 GMT Rebecca Cotton, director of mental health policy at the Mental Health Network, discusses the opportunities and challenges in developing digital services for the mental health sector. The Mental Health Taskforce, formed in March this year, has been given the daunting task of developing a new five-year national strategy for mental health... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-digital-at-the-heart-of-mental-health 420,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-digital-at-the-heart-of-mental-health Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:15:00 GMT James Norman, UK public sector chief information officer at EMC and ex-CIO at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, explains how data analytics could improve the efficiency of the healthcare sector by between 15% and 60%. David Stevenson reports. A revolution in healthcare requires significant investment in data... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/unlocking-a-revolution-in-healthcare-through-data-analytics 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/unlocking-a-revolution-in-healthcare-through-data-analytics Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:15:00 GMT Professor Jeremy Wyatt, leadership chair in eHealth research and clinical advisor on new technology at the Royal College of Physicians, and Dr Maximilian Johnston, clinical research fellow at the Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality at Imperial College London, discuss the importance of clinical and evidence-based development in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-importance-of-evidence-based-mhealth-developments 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-importance-of-evidence-based-mhealth-developments Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:00:00 GMT Jeremy Pewton, head of procurement at Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust, explains why medical staff are getting more involved in finding procurement savings. In March, nurses and procurement managers launched the ‘Small Changes, Big Differences’ campaign to improve patient care while potentially saving the NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/engaging-clinicians-to-deliver-procurement-savings- 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/engaging-clinicians-to-deliver-procurement-savings- Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:30:00 GMT David Stevenson reports on new tailored support for CCGs. NHS England has launched a new Integrated Care Pathways pack to demonstrate to CCGs the extent to which complex patients use resources across programmes of care and the urgent care system.  The latest in a series of ‘commissioning for value’ support packs for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-for-value-with-integrated-care-pathways-packs 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-for-value-with-integrated-care-pathways-packs Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Greater Manchester’s councils and CCGs have won control of virtually all health and care spending in their patch in an innovative devolution deal with central government. Adam Hewitt reports. Dr Ranjit Gill, chief clinical officer on Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), is not the first to notice that Greater Manchester has... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/devo-manc-overcoming-a-decade-of-difficult-relationships-between-commissioners-and-providers 405,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/devo-manc-overcoming-a-decade-of-difficult-relationships-between-commissioners-and-providers Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Steve Howard, superintendent pharmacist at Lloyds Pharmacy, explains how a new pharmacy-led clinic is helping to treat patients at North Manchester General’s A&E department. One in seven people who go to A&E for treatment could be seen by a GP in the community without the need for emergency department assessment, according... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/easing-the-pressure-on-ae-with-pharmacy-led-clinics- 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/easing-the-pressure-on-ae-with-pharmacy-led-clinics- Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Julia Matheson, modality team leader in the X-ray department at Haywood Community Hospital in Staffordshire, explains how a new X-ray system is providing benefits to both patients and radiographers. David Stevenson reports. Haywood Community Hospital, a specialist rheumatology hospital and walk-in centre, has become the first in the UK to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/enhanced-patient-comfort-with-manoeuvrable-x-ray-technology- 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/enhanced-patient-comfort-with-manoeuvrable-x-ray-technology- Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Professor Wendy Reid (pictured), director of education & quality and the medical director at Health Education England, talks about a new film aimed at supporting healthcare professionals in training and staff to raise and respond to concerns about patient safety. David Stevenson reports. As well as being one of the world’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/raising-concerns- 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/raising-concerns- Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Dr Katerina Kolyva (pictured), director of Continued Practice at the Nursing & Midwifery Council, discusses revalidation and the early success of pilots involved in the process. David Stevenson reports. Revalidation for nurses and midwives starts in December 2015, to promote good practice across the professions.  Before the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/reflection-and-engagement-key-to-revalidation- 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/reflection-and-engagement-key-to-revalidation- Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT A new strategy outlines how the effective exploitation of technology, data and information can help deliver change for health and social care. David Stevenson reports. The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has published a draft strategy which aims to “revolutionise” the way technology, data and information are... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/revolutionising-health-and-social-care-data-use-by-2020- 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/revolutionising-health-and-social-care-data-use-by-2020- Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Ian Wheeler, head of research, labour market intelligence and evaluation at Skills for Health, says the case for investing in the skills of the UK’s health support workers has never been stronger. The UK’s health sector is dealing with two key forces. The first force is that of increased demand for healthcare. This has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/support-workers-the-case-for-ongoing-development-and-investment 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/support-workers-the-case-for-ongoing-development-and-investment Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Dr Andy Withers (pictured), clinical chair of Bradford Districts CCG, talks to NHE about why clinical leaders in the local area are funding customer care training for GP receptionists and what he hopes the outcomes will be. David Stevenson reports. When NHS Bradford City CCG and NHS Bradford Districts CCG were formed in April 2013 both... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-doctor-will-see-you-now 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-doctor-will-see-you-now Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT From 1 April, three CSUs are merging to form a single South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, covering a population area of 10 million people and 40 CCGs. NHE spoke to two of the people leading the merger: Jan Hull, managing director of South West Commissioning Support, and Keith Douglas, managing director of South... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-future-of-commissioning-support 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-future-of-commissioning-support Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Dr Al Story, clinical lead and manager for Find&Treat at University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, tells NHE about how a new mobile health van will help thousands of patients access testing for a variety of infections. David Stevenson reports. The well-known Find&Treat Service, operated across London by University College... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/twenty-first-century-infectious-disease-screening 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/twenty-first-century-infectious-disease-screening Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT In the first of a two-part series, Rebekah Tailor from the Health and Care Professions Council introduces a new campaign designed to promote the statutory regulation of arts therapists amongst employers. This spring the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is launching a new campaign to promote the statutory regulation of arts... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/what-campaign-highlights-how-statutory-regulation-of-arts-therapists-protects-service-users 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/what-campaign-highlights-how-statutory-regulation-of-arts-therapists-protects-service-users Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT Dr Esther Hobson, National Institute for Health Research doctoral research fellow at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neurosciences, discusses how a new telehealth and web resource could help revolutionise access to care and support for people suffering from Motor Neurone Disease. David Stevenson reports. Motor neurone disease... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/revolutionising-care-access-for-mnd-patients-through-telehealth 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/revolutionising-care-access-for-mnd-patients-through-telehealth Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:45:00 GMT David Stevenson hears from the main health regulators on their role and the future of regulation, including the heads of Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority and the Care Quality Commission. Regulation has a big role to play in a sector where patient safety and public confidence are crucial, but what this should look like and how... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/too-many-nhs-organisations-arent-getting-the-basics-right 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/too-many-nhs-organisations-arent-getting-the-basics-right Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:30:00 GMT Health and social care is undergoing the most intense pressures the system has ever known, with long waits for treatment in A&E departments and delayed discharges from hospital beds to community and social care. Michael Clarke of MC Consult, an independent consultancy firm, explores the issues. The Scape Framework provides a unique... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-your-estate--for-all-stages-of-the-patient-pathway 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-your-estate--for-all-stages-of-the-patient-pathway Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:00:00 GMT NHE talks to Dr Clarissa Murdoch, who took a lead role in designing her trust’s new Ambulatory Care Centre, with extensive input from staff and patients. The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in north London opened its new Ambulatory Care Centre in 2014, after a remarkably inclusive approach to its design and construction, involving... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-beautiful-yet-functional-space-for-patients-and-clinicians 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-beautiful-yet-functional-space-for-patients-and-clinicians Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:45:00 GMT NHE interviews Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s chief procurement officer David Lawson and the trust’s clinical procurement champion, consultant transplant surgeon Mr Geoff Koffman, who is head of transplantation and deputy medical director. With a turnover of £1.2bn and more than two million... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/clinicians-who-care-about-procurement 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/clinicians-who-care-about-procurement Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:45:00 GMT David Stevenson reports from the annual conference of the Foundation Trust Network, now NHS Providers. More than 700 delegates attended the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) annual conference and exhibition in Liverpool in late November, with ‘change’ and ‘transformation’ the key themes. This applied to the FTN itself... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ftn-conference-providers-can-drive-nhs-transformational-change 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ftn-conference-providers-can-drive-nhs-transformational-change Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:00:00 GMT The Commission on the Voluntary Sector & Ageing is soon to publish its report and recommendations. NHE spoke to its chair, Lynne Berry OBE, who is also a non-executive director of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Demographic changes will profoundly alter our society, with a disproportionate impact on the health and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/taking-volunteers-seriously 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/taking-volunteers-seriously Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:15:00 GMT A new technology for clinical lung imaging could help Sheffield become a national centre of excellence in the imaging field. NHE’s David Stevenson went to meet Jim Wild, Professor of Magnetic Resonance Physics and NIHR Research Professor in Pulmonary Imaging. A £7.5m grant has been awarded to the University of Sheffield to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-excellence-in-clinical-lung-imaging 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-excellence-in-clinical-lung-imaging Sun, 01 Feb 2015 09:00:00 GMT Sam McCaffrey reports from a major event in the primary care calendar. It is safe to say that at the 2014 Best Practice Show all eyes were on the future. Not only were the speakers and attendees focused on the challenges facing general practice over the next few years, but it also happened to be the day that Simon Stevens and NHS England... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/best-practice-show-2014 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/best-practice-show-2014 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:45:00 GMT Chris Slater, head of supplies and procurement at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and the trust’s e-business manager Graham Medwell, explain its pioneering work on e-enablement, inventory control, materials management and freeing up clinicians for frontline work. Back in 2002, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust became the first... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-better-procurement-can-save-time-money-and-lives 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-better-procurement-can-save-time-money-and-lives Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:15:00 GMT NHE’s David Stevenson looks at the issue of compliance with the government’s eProcurement Strategy and what support is being provided from the Department of Health. To comply with the government’s eProcurement Strategy, NHS acute trusts (FT and non-FT) must, during 2014-15, develop and begin implementing a trust... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/mixed-messages-on-eprocurement-support 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/mixed-messages-on-eprocurement-support Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:00:00 GMT Dame Gill Morgan, chair of the Foundation Trust Network, which is changing its name to NHS Providers, gives an update on the organisation’s programme over the course of the next Parliament. It’s rare for the NHS to be out of the headlines. From immediate winter pressures to the longer-term challenges of promoting wellness and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/changing-the-way-we-deliver-health-and-care- 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/changing-the-way-we-deliver-health-and-care- Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:45:00 GMT NHE talks to Dennis Hunt, health, safety and security manager at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Dennis Hunt, health, safety and security manager at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS FT, was recognised at the National Personal Safety Awards 2014 for his personal contribution to keeping staff safe at... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-right-policies-and-the-right-technology-to-keep-lone-workers-safe 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-right-policies-and-the-right-technology-to-keep-lone-workers-safe Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:30:00 GMT A fledgling express sexual health screening service introduced by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has generated worldwide interest. Leigh Chislett, clinic manager at Dean Street Express, and Alan McOwan, service director for sexual health at the trust, explain. Dean Street Express, located in the heart of Soho... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/express-sexual-health-screening-captures-imaginations-worldwide 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/express-sexual-health-screening-captures-imaginations-worldwide Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:45:00 GMT Steve Fairman, managing director at NHS Improving Quality, talks about the launch of 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives and what he hopes these will achieve. Dr Liz Mear, chief executive at the North West Coast AHSN, also discusses what role her organisation will play in delivering continual patient safety learning. David Stevenson... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/making-safety-everyones-business 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/making-safety-everyones-business Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:45:00 GMT Sue Symington, a non-executive director and vice-chair at Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust, has been named ‘New Chartered Director of the Year’. NHE spoke to her about the role of non-executives within the NHS, and the value of professional development. Non-executive directors in the NHS have a lot of autonomy... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/you-have-to-keep-learning--cpd-for-non-executive-directors 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/you-have-to-keep-learning--cpd-for-non-executive-directors Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:30:00 GMT Kathy Gerwig, vice-president of employee safety, health and wellness, and environmental stewardship officer for Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organisation in the USA, discusses how healthcare can lead the way on sustainability issues while developing safe environments for patients and the workforce. There is a school of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-a-focus-on-worker-safety-and-environmental-factors-can-improve-patient-care 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-a-focus-on-worker-safety-and-environmental-factors-can-improve-patient-care Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:30:00 GMT Sam McCaffrey reports on one of the big trends in healthcare. ‘Big data’ and ‘data analytics’ are not just abstract concepts: they have a solid real-world application. For example, in 2012, Mastodon C, part of the Open Data Institute, spent eight weeks analysing publicly-available NHS prescriptions data... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-data-analytics-can-improve-patient-care 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-data-analytics-can-improve-patient-care Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:15:00 GMT Dr Simon Bowers, GP and vice clinical chair of the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, gives NHE his thoughts on the current landscape for commissioning specialised services. David Stevenson reports. As this edition of NHE went to press, NHS England launched its ‘Next steps towards primary care co-commissioning’ report... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-best-ccgs-should-be-the-conductor-of-the-whole-orchestra-the-future-of-specialised-commissioning 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-best-ccgs-should-be-the-conductor-of-the-whole-orchestra-the-future-of-specialised-commissioning Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:00:00 GMT Dr Sade Okutubo, clinical lead in Perioperative, Critical Care and Chronic Pain Services at Homerton University Hospital, talks to NHE about quality improvement through peer review in anaesthesia. Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s anaesthetics department has become the first in the UK to receive the Royal College... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/quality-improvement-through-peer-review-how-acsa-can-change-clinical-practice-in-two-years-instead-of-a-decade 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/quality-improvement-through-peer-review-how-acsa-can-change-clinical-practice-in-two-years-instead-of-a-decade Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:45:00 GMT Health secretary Jeremy Hunt gave the keynote address on the final afternoon of the Best Practice Show, having made the trip to Birmingham after the conclusion of the Commons debate on Five Year Forward View from NHS England. Sam McCaffrey watched the speech. Casting aside the podium used by other speakers at the Best Practice Show... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ccgs-are-the-key-to-the-future-of-out-of-hospital-care 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ccgs-are-the-key-to-the-future-of-out-of-hospital-care Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:00:00 GMT Dr Mo Dewji, NHS England’s national clinical lead for primary care, explains what the roll-out of the Friends and Family Test will mean for GPs. David Stevenson reports. From 1 December 2014, it will be a contractual requirement that all GP practices implement the NHS Friends and Family Test (FFT). Since the introduction of the FFT... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/fft-can-provide-important-feedback-for-gps 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/fft-can-provide-important-feedback-for-gps Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:45:00 GMT NHE talks to Rose Gallagher, Royal College of Nursing adviser for infection prevention and control, and Debbie Wright, assistant director of infection prevention and control at Aintree University Hospital NHS FT and a representative of the Infection Prevention Society, about a new ‘toolkit’ for commissioners. No person should be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/infection-prevention-and-control-the-role-of-commissioners 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/infection-prevention-and-control-the-role-of-commissioners Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:30:00 GMT Laura Fleming, head of membership engagement at the Royal College of Physicians, explains why so many people are choosing to join, after the organisation recently welcomed its 30,000th member. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) meets every definition of an august institution, having been founded back in 1518 by Royal Charter from Henry... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/thousands-of-members-and-hundreds-of-years 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/thousands-of-members-and-hundreds-of-years Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:00:00 GMT Sam Peate, programme lead for the Frontline Nursing and Midwifery Programme at NHS Leadership Academy, tells NHE about the benefits of the six-month development programme and how it has been received by the first cohort of participants. David Stevenson reports. The NHS Leadership Academy has been charged with providing leadership... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-frontline-nursing-leaders 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-frontline-nursing-leaders Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:45:00 GMT The CQC has been determined to listen to the public and NHS staff more, and to ensure their experiences and views inform its inspection reports. NHE spoke to CQC director of engagement Chris Day. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been running ‘listening events’ ahead of its formal inspections for nearly a year, all over... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/listen-and-learn 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/listen-and-learn Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:45:00 GMT Earlier this year the government refused a 1% pay rise for all nurses in England, as recommended by the independent Pay Review Body, instead limiting it to those not on progression pay already. This decision was made on the basis that NHS trusts were acting “responsibly and sensitively when setting senior pay”. But a new report... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/keeping-the-pay-bill-fair 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/keeping-the-pay-bill-fair Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:30:00 GMT Max Jones, director of information and data services at HSCIC, discusses how his organisation is taking steps to improve data transparency and security. Following a review of information released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s (HSCIC) predecessor, the NHS Information Centre (NHS IC), it was concluded that there were... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/delivering-transparency-with-patient-data-qa-with-max-jones 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/delivering-transparency-with-patient-data-qa-with-max-jones Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:15:00 GMT The directors of public health in the north west have launched an ambitious ‘manifesto’ ahead of the 2015 general election. NHE spoke to the group’s co-chair, Abdul Razzaq, who is director of public health for Trafford. A new manifesto for public health has been launched in the north west to aid policy development locally... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/this-is-a-call-to-action 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/this-is-a-call-to-action Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:45:00 GMT The NHS Alliance has launched its Community Development Charter for Health, urging a radically different approach to community development that will save public resources and improve health outcomes. NHE interviewed GP Dr Brian Fisherof the NHS Alliance executive, who also chairs HELP, the Health Empowerment Leverage Project. The signatories... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ask-dont-tell-improving-public-health-through-community-development 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ask-dont-tell-improving-public-health-through-community-development Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:15:00 GMT Jamie Waterall, national lead for NHS Health Check, was interviewed by NHS on the success of the programme and the role of local authorities in expanding its message. NHS Health Check allows adults in England aged 40-74 without a pre-existing condition to have a free ‘mid-life MOT’. The check assesses people’s circulatory... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-health-check-promoting-preventative-health- 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/nhs-health-check-promoting-preventative-health- Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:15:00 GMT Chris Lake, head of professional development at the NHS Leadership Academy, discusses the new Intersect programme, which will help develop the next generation of system leaders. The NHS Leadership Academy, with partners from across health, social care, education, local government, children’s and emergency services, has launched a new... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/developing-new-system-leaders 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/developing-new-system-leaders Wed, 28 May 2014 17:00:00 GMT Leicester Medical School is the first in the country to teach its first year junior doctors how to hold online consultations. NHE spoke to teaching fellow Dr Ron Hsu, who has led on the initiative. In our March/April 2014 edition, NHE interviewed Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, the founder of the Patients Know Best (PKB) records platform. We... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/online-consultations-the-future 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/online-consultations-the-future Wed, 28 May 2014 16:15:00 GMT NHE takes a look at what the Department of Health’s newly launched eProcurement strategy will mean for trusts across the country, with input from Steve Graham, eProcurement lead at the Department of Health. David Stevenson reports. The Department of Health (DH) launched its NHS eProcurement Strategy on 7 May with grand claims about... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-efficiency-with-eprocurement 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-efficiency-with-eprocurement Wed, 28 May 2014 15:45:00 GMT Tim Spencer-Lane, a lawyer at the Law Commission responsible for the review into regulation of health and social care professional regulation in the UK, gave a talk in Manchester about the draft Bill to create a single legal framework for all healthcare regulators. NHE’s David Stevenson was there, and later spoke to Nursing & Midwifery... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/reforming-regulation 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/reforming-regulation Wed, 28 May 2014 15:00:00 GMT Dr Janet Harrison, programme director for the MSc Healthcare Management and Governance Programme at Loughborough University, discusses the ever-changing NHS. The management of the NHS is crucial to the wellbeing of the country. However, the institution is nearly 70 years old. The NHS seems to reflect the state of health of 70-year-olds in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/how-can-healthcare-services-be-managed-effectively 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/how-can-healthcare-services-be-managed-effectively Mon, 19 May 2014 11:30:00 GMT Relationships between hospital trusts and their suppliers are changing. NHE got an in-depth understanding of just how big the impacts of these changes are from Ali Ali, head of procurement at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Martin Matkin, director of Cook Medical’s Healthcare Business Solutions team in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/making-buying-cheaper-and-easier 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/making-buying-cheaper-and-easier Mon, 19 May 2014 11:30:00 GMT Across most areas of the NHS there are calls for change, and commissioning is no different. David Stevenson reports on how commissioning may develop in the future. Speaking at the recent Health and Care Innovation Expo 2014, Dr Jason Broch, GP and clinical chair, NHS Leeds North Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), asked a simple question... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-now-and-in-the-future 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/commissioning-now-and-in-the-future Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT Compassion and care should go hand-in-hand and, in many cases, it does so. However, at times the values for providing compassionate, personalised care are not reached. David Stevenson reports from the NHS Expo in Manchester. During the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2014, one of the most emotional sessions involved Jane Cummings, chief... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/compassion-is-crucial-in-healthcare 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/compassion-is-crucial-in-healthcare Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT NHS England’s care.data initiative may have been put on hold for six months, but the issues surrounding the data sharing system rumble on. David Stevenson reports on how the topic was addressed at NHS Expo 2014. The sharing of patient data must be done securely, safely and confidentially, according to an expert panel talking about ... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/dealing-with-data-safely 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/dealing-with-data-safely Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT There is a lot of talk about Auto ID and Data Capture technologies improving process efficiencies within the NHS, but what about patient safety? NHE went along to a HSCIC event in Manchester to find out more and heard from GS1 UK’s Chris Doyle, head of health information standards and information governance at NHS England, Kathy Farndon... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ensuring-patient-safety-with-aidc 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ensuring-patient-safety-with-aidc Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust has taken a big step on the paperless journey and thinks it will save tens of thousands of pounds a year by digitising its board papers. NHE spoke to the trust’s director of information services, Martin Alexander. South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust has an executive board of directors and a full... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/no-more-staring-at-photocopiers 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/no-more-staring-at-photocopiers Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:01:00 GMT One of the key messages at this year’s NHS Expo was that change is on its way, especially in the form of technological advances for creating greater personalised care. NHE’s David Stevenson reports. Sir David Nicholson, the outgoing chief executive of NHS England, says that the NHS must change if it is to survive and remain... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/change-is-on-its-way 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/change-is-on-its-way Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) has launched a new report, ‘Think integration, think workforce’, encouraging service providers to consider the workforce perspective when integrating health and care teams. NHE heard from report author Zoë Dodd. There are three key steps to workforce integration, according to a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/dont-forget-the-workforce-when-integrating-health-and-care 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/dont-forget-the-workforce-when-integrating-health-and-care Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:00:00 GMT Work on a state-of-the-art hybrid operating theatre at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is just weeks from completion. NHE talked to Mr David Murray, consultant vascular surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, to find out more. A new hybrid theatre suite under construction in Manchester is a first for the UK and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/world-class-surgery 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/world-class-surgery Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:01:00 GMT After the successful implementation of a new clinical gateway for referrals into secondary care for all of Manchester’s GPs, the city council’s social care team is now joining the initiative too. NHE spoke to the city council’s head of customer access, Kathy Weaver. Back in July/August 2012, NHE spoke to Simon Wootton... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/integrated-social-care-referrals 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/integrated-social-care-referrals Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT Since the Francis report and Sir Bruce Keogh’s trust inspections, there has been a renewed focus on planned versus actual staffing on wards, and the limitations of e-rostering alone when not combined with rigorous management of real-life staffing. A new report from the Policy Analysis Centre investigates this issue. NHE spoke to the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/knowing-who-is-where 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/knowing-who-is-where Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT Self care could be ‘the first step to saving the NHS’, by radically shifting demand and easing the burden on strained parts of the system. But it needs a national strategy and proper funding, argues GP Dr Beth McCarron-Nash, board member of the Self Care Forum. Self care messages are becoming more and more common; they can be... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-knowledge-and-confidence-for-patients-to-treat-themselves 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-knowledge-and-confidence-for-patients-to-treat-themselves Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT Senior matron for practice and professional development at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT, Dr Maxine Simmons, speaks to NHE about a new patient information system that has transformed time to care. While smart technology is taking off in terms of personal use, many hospitals retain old and outdated systems to manage their information. But... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-care-getting-patient-management-right 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/time-to-care-getting-patient-management-right Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:01:00 GMT At the end of 2013, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust launched its new £700,000 mobile chemotherapy unit to take cancer care closer to patients’ homes. NHE asked chemotherapy clinical service manager Jackie Wrench how the service has been going so far. Up to 20 cancer patients a day are being treated much closer to their homes in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/were-taking-the-christie-to-our-patients 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/were-taking-the-christie-to-our-patients Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:00 GMT The diagnosis and management of people with prolonged disorders of consciousness is an especially complex and sensitive area for the NHS. The Royal College of Physicians has now issued new guidelines to help clinicians negotiate these issues. NHE spoke to Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes, consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Northwick Park... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/best-interest-decisions 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/best-interest-decisions Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:00 GMT Kate Ashley reports from a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference, hosted by 2020health, on the thorny questions around electronic medical records. At the Conservative Party Conference this year, 2020health held a fringe event on electronic medical records. Chief executive Julia Manning (who sits on NHE’s editorial board)... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/whose-information-is-it-anyway 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/whose-information-is-it-anyway Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:45:00 GMT Wayne Sime, director of library services at the Royal Society of Medicine, speaks to NHE. With Jeremy Hunt’s ambition for a paperless NHS by 2018, organisations must look to update their processes and systems and embrace new technology. The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is taking radical steps to modernise its library, and seeing... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-future-library 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-future-library Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:30:00 GMT The Clinical Research Network, part of the National Institute for Health Research, has implemented a new business intelligence tool as the first step in a project to eventually link all of its datasets together. NHE spoke to the NIHR’s Bryony Walsh, project manager for the work. The NHS is the largest repository of health data in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/open-data-platform 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/open-data-platform Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:00:00 GMT Lesley Perkin, the new programme director for integrated care at Buckinghamshire County Council, talks to NHE about her role and the importance of joined-up working. Buckinghamshire County Council has created a new role to bring integrated care together across five different health and social care organisations, putting patients at the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/getting-the-right-people-in-the-same-room 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/getting-the-right-people-in-the-same-room Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:45:00 GMT Integrating Care, founded to help make better co-ordinated, patient-centric care a reality, has been working with the Local Government Association to develop a toolkit to give practical help to local areas seeking to improve care. NHE talked to project manager Alice Hopkinson.  Integrating Care has an ambitious mission, but hefty... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/making-the-case-for-integrated-care 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/making-the-case-for-integrated-care Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:30:00 GMT A panel session at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester addressed the question – ‘Clinical Commissioning Groups: How are they working out?’ Speakers included Dr Johnny Marshall, policy director at the NHS Confederation; Stephen Collier, group chief executive of BMI Healthcare, Synlab UK managing director Hugh... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/if-youve-met-one-ccg-youvemet-one-ccg 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/if-youve-met-one-ccg-youvemet-one-ccg Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:15:00 GMT Richard Humphries, assistant director for policy at The King’s Fund, talks to NHE about the latest research into health and wellbeing boards. Health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) became fully operational on 1 April 2013, and expectations have “never been higher”, according to The King’s Fund. Its latest research... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/inherent-tensions--but-good-relationships 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/inherent-tensions--but-good-relationships Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:00:00 GMT What leadership capabilities are really necessary for today’s working environment? David A Buchanan, professor of organisational behaviour at Cranfield University School of Management, investigates. When things go wrong in the NHS, as they did at Mid Staffs, leaders and managers often take the blame. Leadership development has thus... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-new-leadership-devious-resilient-collaborative-wicked 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-new-leadership-devious-resilient-collaborative-wicked Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:45:00 GMT Gill Thomas, partner at national law firm Mills & Reeve, interprets the NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations (No. 2) 2013. As the NHS Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition Regulations bed in, commissioners are playing it safe to avoid a legal challenge. Nobody wants to be the first to test the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/to-advertise-or-not-to-advertise 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/to-advertise-or-not-to-advertise Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:15:00 GMT Louise Thomson, head of policy at the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), explains the importance of a new code for CCG governance, and how it could help reassure patients on some of the “inherent conflicts of interest” within CCGs. The introduction of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 led to the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/governance-for-the-new-nhs 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/governance-for-the-new-nhs Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:45:00 GMT Emma Latimer, chief officer of NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning, explains the huge transformation in the primary care and community services estate in the city. Just over a decade ago Hull’s primary care picture was incomparable to the fantastic health facilities placed at the heart of communities today. Over 85% of patients used GP... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-power-of-partnership-delivering-a-healthy-transformation-for-hull 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-power-of-partnership-delivering-a-healthy-transformation-for-hull Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:15:00 GMT How will the NHS handle millions of individual comments? Jim Ward, director at Good4HEALTH Ltd, gives his view. In April this year, following new guidelines from the Department of Health, hospitals started surveying patients within 48 hours of discharge. Known as the Friends and Family Test (FFT), the survey was announced by Prime... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-friends--family-test--a-gold-mine-of-patient-feedback 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-friends--family-test--a-gold-mine-of-patient-feedback Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:30:00 GMT Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been taking part in a pilot project with NHS Blood & Transplant to automate blood tracking and delivery, ensuring the trust has the right amount of blood product. NHE spoke to Teresa Benson, senior biomedical scientist, to find out more. NHS Blood & Transplant (NHS BT) has been... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/blood-tracking 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/blood-tracking Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Welsh Ambulance Service has installed defibrillators on its fleet of non-emergency vehicles. NHE heard more from the organisation’s head of clinical services, Richard Lee. After a cardiac arrest, time is of the essence, as every minute that passes for someone in a shockable rhythm without defibrillation decreases their survival... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/every-minute-counts 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/every-minute-counts Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Marion Pavitt, directorate manager for theatres and anaesthetics at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, talks to NHE about the new ADCU. A new unit is simplifying the care pathway for patients at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH) NHS FT. The extended estate is helping to facilitate shorter inpatient stays and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/improving-patient-pathways-at-the-roh 409,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/improving-patient-pathways-at-the-roh Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of 11 trusts in a North West consortium implementing a new PACS. Dr Peter Rowlands, consultant radiologist, talks to NHE. A consortium of acute and community trusts across Cheshire and Merseyside have implemented a contract for a new Picture Archiving and Communications... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/simplified-sharing 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/simplified-sharing Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Mark Smith, head of suicide prevention and mental health at the British Transport Police, talks to NHE about a street triage partnership between the NHS and police. While policing and health have clearly defined remits, their responsibility crosses over on certain key issues. This includes mental health, and people who are vulnerable to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/street-triage-stations-and-suicide 420,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/street-triage-stations-and-suicide Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT David Owen, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS FT assistant chief pharmacist (business and operations) and ePMA project manager, describes the advantages of going paperless. he move from paper to electronic systems is a huge challenge for the NHS, but one which could see a step-change in clinical and financial efficiency. Northern... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-end-of-handwritten-prescriptions 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-end-of-handwritten-prescriptions Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Sara Osbourne, head of policy at Cancer Research UK, talks to NHE about a new way of looking at cancer statistics. While cancer is a disease common to all areas of the UK, there is significant variation in both incidence and the NHS’s response. Bringing data together from different sources would allow greater comparison, as well as... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-whole-picture 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-whole-picture Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT Kate Ashley examines the strides the Scottish government is making towards better public health, and asks why the UK is not following its lead. With two major decisions on public health policy over the past few weeks, the UK Government is not doing itself any favours with the medical community. First plain packaging for cigarettes then... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/lessons-from-scotland 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/lessons-from-scotland Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT There is not much time left for trusts to apply to the £260m Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards fund set up by NHS England in May to make digital records safer and improve patient safety through e-prescribing. Adam Hewitt reports on the benefits of the fund and how to apply. The £260m Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/safer-hospitals-safer-wards 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/safer-hospitals-safer-wards Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT NHS Central Eastern CSU is attempting to achieve better sharing of information between different clinical and care settings in the region, starting with a new portal to allow GPs to see safeguarding information on children they think may be at risk. NHE spoke to the CSU’s assistant director of ICT informatics and chief information... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-safeguarding-through-data-sharing 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-safeguarding-through-data-sharing Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT Kate Ravenscroft, policy manager at the NHS Confederation, describes the results of a recent survey conducted in partnership with ADASS on the barriers to and enablers of integrated care. A poll of adult social care directors and local health service commissioners shows a widespread feeling that integrated care must and will happen... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-services-to-make-way-for-integrated-care 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/transforming-services-to-make-way-for-integrated-care Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust was one of the first hospitals in the country to have a public health department, and has now embarked on a major new ‘Well at the Free’ behaviour change initiative at its front entrance. NHE talked to Natalia Clifford from the trust’s public health team. The Royal Free London... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/well-at-the-free 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/well-at-the-free Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:30:00 GMT What’s the point of having digital records if they are not interoperable? Professor Iain Carpenter, chair of the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB), talks to NHE. A fully digitised and standardised system of health records in this country has obviously been a long time coming, and there have been many false dawns –... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/unlocking-the-benefits-of-standardised-records 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/unlocking-the-benefits-of-standardised-records Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:15:00 GMT 2020health.org founder and chief executive Julia Manning, who sits on NHE’s editorial board, as well as the think tank’s research assistant Charlotte Morris, report back from a debate it hosted on plain packaging for cigarettes. Since the introduction of the smoking ban in public areas in 2007, many have said the war on... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-plain-packaging-of-cigarettes-triumph-or-tyranny 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-plain-packaging-of-cigarettes-triumph-or-tyranny Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:45:00 GMT CUH NHS FT medical equipment library supervisor Simon Dawkins discusses how the benefits of RFID can reach far beyond asset management. Keeping track of huge numbers of vital medical devices is becoming increasingly important – hospitals can no longer afford to simply buy more assets when they are lost or misplaced. RFID (Radio... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/beyond-asset-management 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/beyond-asset-management Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:15:00 GMT The NHS Leadership Academy’s new core programmes are now accepting applications and registers of interest for courses beginning this year. NHE talked to Chris Lake, head of professional development at the Academy, who says it is possible that 30,000 people will come through the programmes in the next three years. The driving aim of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-professionalisation-of-leadership-in-healthcare 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-professionalisation-of-leadership-in-healthcare Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:15:00 GMT People Powered Health, a practical approach to involving patients with long term health conditions in their own care, run by innovation charity Nesta, the Innovation Unit, and management consultancy Private Public (PPL), supported projects in six areas across England helping more than 200,000 patients. It recently won the top prize for... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/people-powered-health 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/people-powered-health Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:15:00 GMT NHE spoke to Jonathan Thorpe, telehealth project manager, and David Barrett, nurse lecturer in telehealth at the University of Hull, about the Centre for Telehealth and the Hull Telehealth Hub. Telehealth is coming, whether the critics and the cautious are ready or not. The Centre for Telehealth has brought together the local and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/from-science-fiction-to-nhs-services 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/from-science-fiction-to-nhs-services Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:30:00 GMT Commissioners need to ensure they are aware of their duties and responsibilities under the Social Value Act – that’s the message of a new white paper for the NHS Alliance from its special advisor on co-ops and mutuals, Mo Girach, and joint head of the charity & social enterprise department at law firm Bates Wells &... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/embracing-social-value-in-health-commissioning 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/embracing-social-value-in-health-commissioning Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:15:00 GMT Dominic Harrison, joint director of public health, engagement and partnerships at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, highlights the need to move towards a preference based social model of healthcare. Joint director of public health at Blackburn with Darwen, Dominic Harrison, gave an empowering speech to the Local Government... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/a-new-approach-to-public-health 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/a-new-approach-to-public-health Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Michelle McLoughlin, chief nurse at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, describes the benefits of a new way to collect feedback. Allowing and encouraging patients to give feedback on their experience of the NHS is a vital part of identifying what trusts and individual departments and wards can do to improve their... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/app-happy 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/app-happy Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Responsibility for public health is transferring formally from the NHS to local government and Public Health England on 1 April – but is everyone ready? Kate Ashley reports from the LGA’s public health conference. Local government is ready for the challenge of taking on responsibility for public health, delegates heard at the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/bringing-public-health-home 420,411 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/bringing-public-health-home Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Greater Manchester’s 12 CCGs are continuing the partnership work done by their predecessor organisations by forming a new Association of Greater Manchester CCGs. Dr Hamish Stedman, who leads Salford CCG, will be the new association’s fi rst chairman and spoke to NHE. Greater Manchester is the largest health economy in England... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/ccg-leaders-working-together 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/ccg-leaders-working-together Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT NHS trust and foundation trust chief executives and NHS trust boards have been reminded of their fire safety duties by David Flory, deputy NHS chief executive. Adam Hewitt reports. Ascathing fire service report into a fi re on the site of Ipswich hospital has identified a series of failings in the trust’s procedures, prompting... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/fire-safety-duties 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/fire-safety-duties Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Francis Report has called for a mandatory register of healthcare assistants (HCAs), alongside common training standards and a code of conduct. But the Government has up to now only been willing to consider a voluntary scheme, and the Cavendish review will not consider regulation. NHE discusses the issues with Royal College of Nursing HCA... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/healthcare-support-workers-registration-and-regulation 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/healthcare-support-workers-registration-and-regulation Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Coleridge Medical Centre, the largest practice in Devon, has implemented a new communication system that has all but replaced internal email and phone calls. NHE hears more from practice partner and IT lead Dr Alex Long. Coleridge Medical Centre’s 13 doctors and 60 support staff, concerned that emails and phone calls were too... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/moving-beyond-email 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/moving-beyond-email Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Ethical Standards in Health and Life Sciences Group (ESHLSG) is consulting on launching a public register of payments to healthcare professionals by commercial organisations. NHE hears from Andy Powrie-Smith, who leads on this issue for the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), and Sir Richard Thompson, co-chair of the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/payments-to-health-professionals-from-the-life-sciences-industry 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/payments-to-health-professionals-from-the-life-sciences-industry Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Dr Mary-Ann Sherratt, a trustee of the College of Optometrists who has been heavily involved in a new report on how better collection and sharing of data can improve public eye health, speaks to NHE about the challenges and opportunities involved. The Department of Health believes that information is core to good quality care – and... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/seeing-the-value-in-sharing-data 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/seeing-the-value-in-sharing-data Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The MHRA has launched a new awareness campaign to ensure health professionals and the public are aware of the longrunning ‘Yellow Card’ scheme, which can act as an early warning system to report adverse reactions and side effects to drugs. NHE talked to Mick Foy, group manager at the MHRA’s Vigilance and Risk... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-importance-of-reporting-adverse-drug-reactions 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-importance-of-reporting-adverse-drug-reactions Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Simon Smith, executive director of local services and sustainability lead for Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust, describes the work behind its carbon reduction successes. Nottingham was the highest-scoring hospital trust in the Environment Agency’s CRC [Carbon Reduction Commitment] performance league table, and the trust’s... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/top-of-the-league 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/top-of-the-league Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Karen Lynas, deputy managing director of the NHS Leadership Academy, speaks to NHE about the “largest ever leadership programme to transform NHS culture”. There has been a growing recognition in the NHS of the need for staff who go beyond effective clinical care, and demonstrate values such as respect, compassion and kindness... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/value-based-leadership 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/value-based-leadership Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust was among the winners of money as part of the Information Sharing Challenge Fund, a Connecting for Health / Department of Health initiative to improve interoperability. NHE speaks to EPS project manager at the trust, Heather Swanston. Improving the speed and accuracy of clinical correspondence... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/better-letters 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/better-letters Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The GMC achieved the best score in the public sector in the biggest ever benchmarking exercise for customer service within UK contact centres. NHE discusses its success with Jane Durkin, the GMC’s head of registration enquiries and support. In a recent benchmarking exercise, UBM’s ‘Top 50 Call Centres for Customer... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/calling-the-shots 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/calling-the-shots Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The National Housing Federation’s new report focuses on the important role housing can play in a truly integrated and person-focused health and social care system. NHE talks to author and NHF policy officer Amy Swan. 'Providing an alternative pathway: The value of integrating housing, care and support', the new report from the... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/its-a-given-that-good-housing-is-a-key-determinant 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/its-a-given-that-good-housing-is-a-key-determinant Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is working with Net.Orange on an integrated care project, involving HFMA’s trading subsidiary HCS. NHE hears more about the project from HCS director Martin Walsh and Net.Orange chief medical officer Dr Rob Beardall. The push to integrate health and care services has two core... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/managing-highly-complex-patients-through-integrated-care 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/managing-highly-complex-patients-through-integrated-care Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT By April 2014, up to 56,000 people getting continuing NHS-funded healthcare will be able to request a personal health budget, following a series of successful pilots, the evidence from which suggests that those with the highest health needs get the most benefit. Although the Department of Health strongly backs the idea, some have concerns... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/personal-health-budgets 420,413 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/personal-health-budgets Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT New NHS financial modelling from the Nuffield Trust underlines the true scale of the funding challenge facing the health service over the next decade. Adam Hewitt reports. The NHS must either deliver unprecedented productivity gains or get highly-unlikely year-on-year funding rises if it is to avoid a huge shortfall by 2021/22, new... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/qipp-2 420,415 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/qipp-2 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Sally Taber, director of Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) and Nyla Cooper, programme lead at NHS Employers, explain the need for new guidance on how to share information about healthcare workers. Regulating health workers across both the NHS and the independent healthcare sector has been held back in the past by a... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/sharing-concerns 420,406 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/sharing-concerns Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT The NHS Commissioning Board received its mandate from health secretary Jeremy Hunt in November, setting out exactly what it must achieve from April 2013 with the majority of the NHS budget at its disposal. NHE spoke to Claire Mundle of the policy team at the King’s Fund about the NHS Mandate and what it means for the Commissioning Board... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-mandate-to-the-nhs-commissioning-board 410,420 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-mandate-to-the-nhs-commissioning-board Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT NHE hears from Katherine Murphy, Patients Association chief executive, on revalidation. Patient groups have welcomed the official start of revalidation, but there is a worry that patient involvement remains tokenistic rather than embedded in the process. Katherine Murphy, Patients Association chief executive, said the GMC is taking... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/the-role-of-patient-feedback-in-revalidation 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/the-role-of-patient-feedback-in-revalidation Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Stuart Penny, general manager for operations for NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) in the south west, describes the exciting new pilot that could transform blood management across the health service. Electronic tracking systems can improve accuracy and security of blood management, cutting unnecessary deliveries and inefficiency for NHS... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/tracking--transforming 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/tracking--transforming Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT A digital training record system developed at West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has proven extremely popular and is now being taken up by other trusts across the country, with help from Skills for Health. NHE talks to the creator of the WIRED application, Harjinder Mann. A new system called WIRED (the Workforce Information... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/why-trusts-are-getting-wired 420,419 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/why-trusts-are-getting-wired Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Professor Andrew Hanby, Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Leeds, talks to NHE about a project which lets citizens do the legwork on cancer research. Drawing inspiration from the stars, cancer scientists have called on the power of the massed public and a “monster” level of IT infrastructure to create CellSlider... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/citizen-power 420,417 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/citizen-power Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Some of the biggest issues in healthcare were debated at the party conferences, including a session hosted by 2020health on what clinical commissioning will actually look like in practice. The speakers were David Worskett of the NHS Partners Network; Debbie Abrahams, Labour MP and PPS to shadow health secretary Andy Burnham; Dr Linda Patterson... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/clinical-commissioning-and-the-nhs-reforms 420,407 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/clinical-commissioning-and-the-nhs-reforms Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The upward trend in GP suspensions has come to a halt, new figures show. Adam Hewitt reports. Far fewer GPs were suspended from work by the NHS in 2011/12 compared to the previous year. New figures on suspensions and exclusions published by the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) show that there were 45 GPs suspended in... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/fall-in-gp-suspensions 420,412 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/fall-in-gp-suspensions Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Keith Richardson, of the Informatics Directorate at NHS North of England, speaks to NHE about progress so far in the NHS North West region. The benefits of digital dictation are clear, and the majority of trusts now use some form of it for their clinical notes and correspondence. Keith Richardson, who leads on electronic clinical... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/rolling-out-digital-dictation-and-voice-recognition 420,416 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/rolling-out-digital-dictation-and-voice-recognition Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT NHE speaks to Anne Keatley-Clarke, chief executive of the Children’s Heart Federation, about the implementation of the Safe and Sustainable proposals to centralise paediatric heart surgery, and a recent CQC inspection that uncovered problems at one of the earmarked units at Bristol. There has been yet another delay in the drive to... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/safe-and-sustainable 420,418 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/safe-and-sustainable Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Professor Simon Thompson, director of research in biostatistics at the University of Cambridge, speaks to NHE about the results of the independent breast cancer screening review and its implications for the NHS. The independent breast cancer screening review published its conclusions on October 30, highlighting that the prevalence of... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/screening-hit-or-miss 420,408 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/screening-hit-or-miss Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT There is a major issue of under-diagnosis and under-treatment of mental health problems among children and adolescents. NHE speaks to Dr Raphael Kelvin about a new e-portal giving mental health advice and guidance for anyone who works with young people, aimed at tackling this problem. A consortium of professional bodies and medical royal... http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Service-Focus/tackling-mental-ill-health-among-children-and-adolescents 420,414 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com:80/Health-Service-Focus/tackling-mental-ill-health-among-children-and-adolescents Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT