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Improving health and equity – everybody’s business
For long-standing observers of healthcare policy, rising interest in population health and health inequalities may feel like Groundhog Day. But it has to be different this time, argue Dr Bob Klaber,…
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How acts of kindness can improve care and strengthen teams
Dr Bob Klaber is a passionate advocate for the importance of kindness in providing care and in working in teams. Here, he shares some of the evidence on how kindness can lead to better outcomes and…
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Relationships, resilience, and collaboration help deepen integration during Covid-19, and for the long-term
Anna Bokobza, integrated care programme director, and Toby Hyde, deputy director of transformation, explain how we have listened to and learned from primary care, the voluntary sector, local…
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Looking beyond the NHS Long Term Plan headlines to deliver ‘better health, for life’
Chief executive Professor Tim Orchard on the implications of the NHS Long Term Plan
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How we’re evolving our services to deliver better results for patients
Here Dr William Oldfield, deputy medical director and respiratory consultant, explains how we want to continue to evolve our services to ensure the latest advances deliver better results for patients.
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We need support to bring More Smiles to children in London
Dr Simon Nadel, consultant paediatrician, head of specialty and lead clinician on our children's intensive care unit, explains how the unit has grown since it opened in 1992 and what an expanded…
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Our local children’s services offer real evidence that integrated care models can help solve NHS challenges
To provide high quality and safe care we must work closely with our patients, their families and our partners – primary, secondary and community healthcare providers – in order to navigate and…
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We’re transforming our outpatient services – here’s why and how
Clinical director of central outpatient services Dr Frances Sanderson explains how the Trust's outpatients improvement programme is beginning to deliver real benefits for patients.
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How specialist nurses with ‘extended’ roles are changing the way we provide care for good
The number of cancer diagnoses in the UK is increasing every year. In this blog post, Rebecca Johl, senior nurse for oncology and lead chemotherapy nurse, explains how we’ve achieved big…
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A practical way to join up care and focus on health for all
Integrated care programme director Anna Bokobza explains how an ‘accountable care’ approach – where health providers come together to take responsibility for the quality and cost of care for a…
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Why digital communication means more – not less – contact with patients
In 2014, the NHS England committed to delivering a ‘paperless’ NHS by 2020. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we’ve moved to mostly digital patient records over the past six months. We’re…
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Charity begins at hospital
Ian Lush, Chief Executive of the Imperial College Healthcare Charity, writes about why hospitals have charities supporting their work, what our charity does, and how you can get involved.
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Quality improvement is everyone's job
One of our biggest achievements last year was developing a quality improvement (QI) programme that we are embedding across our organisation.