08 Feb 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
their best to help the patients while being obstructed by managers with their imposed, dysfunctional systems....their systems to make them cost-effective and fit for purpose. Instead, they expect others to adopt time-consuming workarounds.
Take Choose and Book: a new system which often didn't fit properly on existing hospital ...
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It was introduced piecemeal. It constantly changed its nature - always unhelpful when bedding in new systems ...
18 Jan 2012
| by Susie Sell
transform the NHS into a US-style system, GP leaders fear....that incentivise integration would move the NHS towards a US system with large commercial companies taking control ...
01 Feb 2012
| by Mary Selby
Last week, I told Mrs Anxious that snot is a sign of good health and a robust immune system and she
25 Nov 2011
of the NHS's system for approving and recommending drugs.
healthcare system, free to everyone at the point of need, and paid for out of general taxation. I agree ...
it is an attack on the NHS itself. It doesn't follow.
Bevan's central idea was for free healthcare for everyone ...
31 Mar 2011
| by Clare Gerada
General practice is considered by many, if not most, to be the heart of the English healthcare system. We know that our patients trust us, and that they are pleased with the services that we ...
agree with the central thrust of the report in that we must minimise unintended variation in quality ...
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Her practice background in central London is not orthodox - a small number of partners running several ...
to the GPs leading the new commissioning groups, says Dr Gerada.
'The groups will need to put systems ...
27 Oct 2011
. For these individuals, negotiating the system can be baffling. Most may have fantastic experiences of the individual components of their care but, as a whole, their 'journey' through the system may feel confused, haphazard ...
-word of the moment in the NHS. It is effectively generalism on a system-wide scale - an attempt to provide holistic ...
16 May 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
performed.
Predictably, GPs were asked to take more care - but that's not enough. The whole system needs ...
have to work with the NHS's archaic communication systems.
Routinely copying medication from ...
concept than the summary care record which disseminates what the GP has on their practice system, however ...
Obviously they need some new words to make up the numbers, so I thought I'd suggest a few relating specifically to the NHS.
Let's start with:
Dysuncoordinatedness (n.) (1) a system which is so ...
't even know there is a right hand; (2) any system with two left hands; (3) any system with three (or more ...