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35-42 EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr Dave Haslam is a General Practitioner in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire and Clinical Director
of the National Obesity Forum. He specialises in obesity and also holds positions as Trustee of the Foundations Charity and is Executive Director, PCOS UK.
Prof Matthew Swindells
is Chair of BCS Health, Chair of the Charity Trustees at
Imperial College NHS Hospital Trust and Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Global Consulting at Cerner Limited.
Susie Sanderson is Executive Board Chair for the British Dental Association, Honorary
Treasurer and Board member of the Council of European Dentists and a member of the Board of Medical Education England and its subsidiary Dental Programme Board.
Dr Mike Knapton is Associate Medical Director (Prevention and Care) at the British
Heart Foundation, and also the Medical Director for the combined Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs.
Nina Pinwill is the Associate Director and Appraisal Project Manager for Topic Selection at
the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
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COMMENT p14-17 NHE speaks to NHS improvement and effi ciency supremo Jim Easton about the future landscape for change-support in the health service, and reports back from the QIPP Awards & Conference in Manchester.
COMMISSIONING AND PATHWAYS p18-21 West Cheshire CCG chairman Dr Huw Charles-Jones tells us about an innovative ‘hospital at home’ scheme to safeguard NHS resources that has received sensational patient feedback and we report from an NHS Confederation event on commissioning children’s services.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT p23-27 Revalidation is now just months away, as GMC chief executive Niall Dickson discusses in detail, while we also hear from the National Clinical Assessment Service on its new guidance for NHS organisations dealing with bad behaviour among health practitioners.
E-LEARNING AND CPD p28-34 The Health Foundation explains more about its GenerationQ leadership programme, GMC chairman Professor Sir Peter Rubin explains its new approach to CPD, and we also hear from the NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement.
TELEHEALTH AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS p35-42 A sophisticated mobile communication system that urges patients to take more responsibility for their own care is among the topics in this section, as well as a telehealth pilot in Milton Keynes.
CLINICAL INNOVATION p43-45 Infected wounds are a huge drain on NHS resources and horrible for individual patients. We hear from Professor Matt Costa about a trial of a new technique to treat open fracture wounds through a suction device instead of gauze and bandage.
CLINICAL IT p46-51 Referral gateways are undoubtedly controversial – but in Manchester, the concept has proved its worth, according to CCG chief offi cer Simon Wootton, who talks NHE through the need to manage demand for secondary care and the success the city’s system has been having.
MEDICAL IMAGING AND PACS p52-57 Dr Graham Hoadley, Consultant Radiologist at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and National Clinical Advisor for NHS Improvement, looks at the benefi ts of successfully completing the ISAS accreditation process, while 2020 Delivery outline metrics to assess the quality of imaging departments.
BLOOD MANAGEMENT p58-62 The newly-released annual report into blood transfusion incidents suggests the NHS is still struggling to get some of the basics right, while NHE hears from Jon Latham of NHS Blood & Transplant about the need for more blood donations to cover the period of the Olympic Games.
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