Blog tagged as: Quality of care

2nd February 2012
The variability in the quality of neurological services is clear. Catherine Foot asks if national strategies solve the problem.
26th January 2012 | Comments: 3
Lara Sonola asks if clinicians used data to improve clinical practice and drive efficiency, could a little change help the NHS in a big way?
19th January 2012 | Comments: 1
James Thompson examines the data on median hospital waiting times and targets in our latest data briefing.
10th January 2012 | Comments: 17
While Jocelyn Cornwell welcomes a commitment to hourly nursing rounds, will the introduction of new measurements just increase bureaucracy in patient care?
22nd December 2011 | Comments: 2
Joanna Goodrich considers the impact of NICE's aspirational guidance on the delivery of adult mental health care on patient-centred care.
20th December 2011 | Comments: 2
The report of the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2011 has put a sharp focus on the care of people with dementia in hospitals.
16th December 2011 | Comments: 1
Francesca Frosini asks how a new measurement of patients treated in non-NHS hospitals will help to assess patient choice.
8th December 2011 | Comments: 3
John Appleby analyses the results of the British Social Attitudes survey to see why our satisfaction with the NHS is so high.
25th November 2011 | Comments: 2
Bev Fitzsimons, asks whether a new patient and family-centred care programme can help improve patients' experience.
15th November 2011 | Comments: 4
As a new Commonwealth Fund survey reflects a positive light on the NHS, Chris Ham asks why we are still moving forward so quickly with health reforms?
9th November 2011 | Comments: 11
While government ministers seem enthused by plans to allow patients to manage their own health budgets, Angela Coulter asks if we should be exploring other options.
26th October 2011 | Comments: 3
In her blog, Veena Raleigh is doubtful that the new hospital mortality rate indictor, SHMI, will provide the definitive measure of a hospital's quality.
20th October 2011 | Comments: 7
Drawing on experience from our Point of Care programme, Jocelyn Cornwell explores the options to improving the poor results on care shown in the CQC report.
18th October 2011 | Comments: 3
After the CQC report on quality of care, Anna Dixon asks if acute hospitals are providing the right care for people with dementia.
12th October 2011 | Comments: 2
Anna Dixon asks if ever-increasing specialisation in acute care is benefitting patients in her new blog.
6th October 2011
Using a personal experience of emergency surgery, Candace Imison makes the case for hospital reconfiguration in her blog.
6th September 2011 | Comments: 9
Chris Ham examines how to reconfigure hospital services to improve the quality and safety of health care.
23rd August 2011 | Comments: 9
Jocelyn Cornwell discusses the dynamic, culture-changing power of stories and story-telling in health care in her new blog.
19th August 2011 | Comments: 2
Early indications show that while waiting times are still historically low, they are beginning to increase under the coalition government.
11th August 2011 | Comments: 1
Joanna Goodrich asks can we really expect to improve services in a way that makes a difference to patients if we don’t listen to their experiences?

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