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Whole Person Care

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:57

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Andy Burnham King's Fund 24 Jan 2013Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow Secretary for Health, says "the 21st century is demanding the full integration of Health and Social Care".  He speaks of Whole Person Care.

Transforming Community Services (TCS) – 1. Strategic Planning

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 14:59

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Assessing Needs

Transforming Community Services (TCS) is about taking services where patients and service users have to travel, and bringing them into the community and into people’s homes.

The effects are twofold:

  1. people tend make more use of the service, because they don’t have to travel, which means they gain the benefits of prevention rather than late remedial treatment
  2. Healthcare delivered in or near patient own home avoids “hotel fees” (cost of food and bed in hospital)

This page looks specifically at the first part of TCS - and the examples used are Healthcare.  The principles apply to all sectors

Benefits Management to support Public Service organisations

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 21:16

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How to help people motivate themselvesMy mission is that everyone will enjoy and be passionate about what they do.

(with Haiku)

Sky Care - the channel for the caring professions. Subscription really cheap

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Sun, 02/06/2011 - 20:45

Teamwork

Dear your Murdochship

We are delighted with the enormous success of sky sports, the vast amounts of money that flows into Premier League football, and the resultant stratospheric salaries that footballers are able to earn.

We're wondering if you can apply your magic to other areas of public interest – nay public fascination!

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Descriptive statistics and basic statistical tests

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 00:20

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The key function of this page is to outline the main statistical tests which you'll use for comparing data.

Innovation - Case for Investment in Social Care

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 17:00

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Skills for Care (SfC) New Types of Worker programme wanted to help third sector organisations make the leap from using development grants to sustainable funding, in other words for commissioners to buy the services they provided at a price which enabled them to continue to provide the service.

Initiating joint working - cross sector forum

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 16:00

With New Ways of Working I initiated a core planning group to identify cross-sector issues (health, social services, childrens incorporating commissioners and providers from public, independent and voluntary sector) and share knowledge.
We all know that decisions on the funding and types of care in one sector often impact on others; staff and users want seamless care delivery, and of course transferability of skills and qualifications.

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Process Redesign using Care Pathway Simulator

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Mon, 02/27/2006 - 16:00

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Simon Dodds, a surgeon in Good Hope Hospital, developed an excellent piece of software to model the flow of patients/service users through a care pathway given constraints of staffing, equipment and facilities.

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Judicial System - If I were running the country

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 22:22

Scales of JusticeHow do we make the courts run more smoothly?  Cases take too long and are too expensive, mired in endless argument and counter-argument that are the hallmarks of our adversarial system.  What if we were to set time limits?  Would that work?

Well, let's try it.  Each side presents their best evidence, and if magistrate or jury isn't convinced, they can ask for more time from each side.  If it works for Cricket, that most venerable of British institutions, it should work for courts.  Who knows, they may even become spectator sports?

If I were running the country - encouraging business

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:33

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Minimum wage

Fantasy government - what would I do if I were in government?  Well how about reduce corporation tax, increase income tax, increase minimum wage and invest in job creation in the regions?  That would be a good start - create jobs where there are workers, then make sure that the right amount of tax is collected and at the same time reduce spend on benefits which are only used to increase profits of selfish organisations.

Would it work?  Have your say.

PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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The Office

Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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