Improving patient safety by implementing a new general surgical on-call rota for FY1 doctors

"This project demonstrates that altering rotas can improve junior doctor's perception of patient safety, and also shows that junior team members, with departmental support, can overcome barriers to change and implement new rotas."

Improving patient safety by implementing a new general surgical on-call rota for FY1 doctors
H Walton, M Uheba
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u206069.w3327

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How is the NHS performing? January 2015

"Slightly more than 4 out of 10 trust finance directors forecast an overspend by the end of this year – the highest proportion since our survey began in March 2011 – and just over three-quarters say they are fairly or very concerned about staying within budget by the end of the next financial year."

How is the NHS performing? January 2015: Quarterly Monitoring Report
J Appleby, J Thompson, J Jabbal
The King's Fund

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The challenge of change in acute mental health services

"VOCALISE can be used to explore staff perceptions of implementation climate and to assess how staff attitudes shape the successful outcomes of planned changes."

The challenge of change in acute mental health services: measuring staff perceptions of barriers to change and their relationship to job status and satisfaction using a new measure (VOCALISE)
C Laker, F Callard, C Flach, P Williams, J Sayer, T Wykes
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:23

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How is the health and social care system performing?

"The Quarterly monitoring report combines publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from NHS trust finance directors, clinical commissioning group (CCG) finance leads, and local authority directors of adult social services."

How is the health and social care system performing? Quarterly monitoring report
The King's Fund
January 2014

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