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'24 hours to save the NHS' is the inside story written by the man with unprecedented authority as both Chief Executive of the NHS and Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health. It describes the successes and failures as well as the pressures and the difficulties of making improvements in the 4th biggest organization in the world.
Lisa Rodrigues had one of the most demanding and exposed jobs in Britain - chief executive at an NHS trust. Yet she took the decision to 'come out' about her lifelong experience of mental illness. This is Lisa's story, told with kindness and courage - an essential read for anyone who thinks they may have what it takes to try health service management.
A guide to clinical effectiveness and governance, this second edition includes clinical governance issues. It aims to increase awareness of, and skills in, an evidence-based approach to health care, and there is advice on collecting, evaluating, interpreting and applying evidence.
This public inquiry report into serious failings in healthcare that took place at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust builds on the first independent report published in February 2010 (ISBN 9780102964394). It further examines the suffering of patients caused by failures by the Trust: there was a failure to listen to its patients and staff or ensure correction of deficiencies. There was also a failure to tackle the insidious negative culture involving poor standards and a disengagement from managerial and leadership responsibilities. These failures are in part a consequence of allowing a focus on reaching national access targets, achieving financial balance and seeking foundation trust...
Research into highly innovative organisations in both the public and private sector indicates that there are seven dimensions of organisational culture that are most closely related to the level of innovative output over time. The seven dimensions are: - Risk taking - Resources - Information - Targets - Tools - Rewards - Relationships The NHS Institute has developed an online organisational assessment tool, based on seven dimensions: risk taking, resources, information, targets, tools, rewards and relationships. We have also created two guides which are available to order now, which provide organisations and teams with practical steps that they can take to create a more effective culture for innovation. Creating the Culture for Innovation - A Practical Guide for Leaders describes the literature base behind the seven dimensions, gives guidance on applications of the framework, and provides 37 practical tips and examples of ways to enhance the culture for innovation in org ...
Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot be solved solely by medicines but also by tackling the social, economic and environmental determinants. In a time when unhealthy and unsustainable conditions are being built into the physical fabric of cities, a new awareness and strategy is urgently needed to putting health and well-being at the heart of planning. The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-being authoritatively and comprehensively integrates health into planning, strengthening the hands of those who argue and plan for healthy environments. With contributions from international leaders in the field, the Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-being provides context, philosophy, research, processes, and tools of experienced practitioners through case studies from four continents.
Following the Second World War, the British Government recruited thousands of people from throughout the Caribbean to work in British hospitals in a range of roles including doctors and nurses, cleaners and porters, midwives and health visitors, cooks and administrators. Using archive and contemporary photographs and oral history, this publication explores the stories of some of these men and women who came to live and work in Britain from the late 1940s through to the 1960s, and considers the challenges and discrimination they had to overcome. In doing so, the book recognises the significant part that immigrants from the Caribbean played in the development of the NHS during its formative years.
This is the second edition of the booklet which contains practical advice on how to deal with back problems and stay active. It is based on the latest research and the information has been shown to be effective in clinical trials. It is suitable for anyone suffering back pain, and doctors or therapists can use it to help patients cope with early management of symptoms. It is linked with the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine guidelines for coping with back pain. The publication is also available in packs of 10 copies (ISBN 0117029505), as well as a video based on the booklet (Get back active, ISBN 0117029408).
This title was first published in 2000: The relative performance of health authorities and general practitioners as commissioners of health care services is a crucial question in the current health care policy debate, but hitherto a poorly researched area. This work addresses that topic, and represents a systematic direct comparison of GPs and health authorities as purchasers of health care services. In doing this it centres upon two of the chief controversies about the NHS internal market: the equality of hospital waiting times for fund-holding patients, and the fairness of the budgets received by fund-holding practices for commissioning effective surgery. In discussing the policy implications of the research, the book then addresses what lessons should be learned from the internal market about equity and efficiency in the service now that the present Labour Government is reforming the NHS with the introduction of Primary Care Groups and Primary Care Trusts.