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How productive wards can improve patient care

26 September 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

In this article, the progress made by the Productive Ward programme since its introduction just over a year ago is reviewed and a guide to its implementation and...

The nature of health and social care partnerships

28 January 2013

Nursing Management

Art & Science

Partnership, often wrongly used interchangeably with ‘collaboration’ and ‘inter-agency working’, features regularly in government publications, and is often high on...

Lean thinking on the wards

31 October 2007

Nursing Standard

Analysis

Adopting the ‘Lean’ management technique can help hospital staff to eliminate wasteful activities.

Sick day scrutiny

11 January 2011

Nursing Standard

Features

NHS trusts are introducing a variety of initiatives to reduce staff sickness absence and save money.

A resourceful step

16 November 2010

Nursing Standard

Feature

It is 12 months since the first NHS organisations signed up to the 10:10 pledge, promising to reduce their carbon emissions by 10 per cent in the course of 2010....

Efficiency and cost effectiveness of negative pressure wound therapy

21 October 2015

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Negative pressure wound therapy can be used to treat wounds of varying aetiology. This article presents findings of a literature review investigating the efficiency...

The hidden cost of constipation

25 June 2014

Primary Health Care

Commissioning

Constipation is one of the most common gastrointestinal conditions for which treatment is sought and tens of millions are spent every year in hospital admissions,...