Cash Injection Research Articles

Understanding organizational culture in reforming the National Health Service

If ‘education, education, education’ was the mantra of the incoming Labour government in 1997, ‘delivery, delivery, delivery’ has been the refrain from 2001. Reforming and modernizing the NHS to deliver the scale and quality of health services required for a demanding 21st century public has been one of Labour's biggest policy pledges. It remains perhaps its most serious challenge in its second term of office. Failure here will both seriously undermine the New Labour project and inflict serious damage on the arguments for publicly financed, publicly provided, health services with universal access. Achievement of a modernized health service and radical improvements in delivery are seen to require more than just the planned large cash injection: they also require health system reform. Major reforms of the health systems of developed nations over the past two decades have been largely structural in content. Through the 1970s and 1980s, changes to the hierarchical arrangements of the NHS presaged more radical plans for a rearrangement of players into purchasers and providers and the introduction of the internal market. This reaching for competition—created by structural rearrangement—mirrored upheavals in healthcare elsewhere in the world. Various combinations of managed competition and managed care have been tried and are evolving in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and many parts of Europe. In opposition, Labour decried the internal market. Once in power they kept many of its structural elements (the crucial separation between operational and strategic responsibilities) while updating the rhetoric (eschewing the language of competition, embracing instead cooperation and partnerships). Their major reform effort focused on quality issues1, developing a plethora of agencies such as the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the Commission for Health Improvement, the National Clinical Assessment Authority, and the Modernization Agency. The latest round of NHS reforms (‘Shifting the Balance’2) again emphasizes structural changes as a means of driving improvements in delivery.

Cash commitment to end bed-blocking.

The government last month announced a £300 million cash injection to help overcome the problem of bed-blocking, which results in thousands of older people being forced to wait in acute hospitals after their treatment is over.

Cash injection for Canadian healthcare system

Cash injection for Canadian healthcare system

Troubled US fusion project receives cash injection

Washington The US Department of Energy has agreed to provide more funds for the building of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Australians respond to cash crisis

Australian medical researchers are set to benefit from a government cash injection of more than Aus$600 million over the next six years. The money was awarded to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; Canberra, Australia) in response to a funding crisis and a large-scale review of health and medical research in Australia.The NHMRC directs research into cancer, AIDS, heart disease and public health, and this award represents a doubling of its grant. An additional Aus$20 million will also be invested in updating research institute infrastructure throughout the country. This will include improved access to new technologies, the latest equipment, overseas expertise and research training. The NHMRC hopes that the new investment will encourage Australian researchers to stay in the country, which has suffered a considerable ‘brain drain’ in recent years. The main beneficiaries of the extra cash will be researchers in medical genomics and other areas of biotechnology.In providing this extra funding, the Australian Government has responded to a comprehensive review of Australia's medical research. The review recommended both new investment in biotechnology research and increased support for the biotechnology industry. It will be the job of the NHMRC Research Committee to allocate the new funding; to search for opportunities to work with industry; to build stronger links with research charities and state and territory governments; and to ensure maximum value for money.Commenting on the funding increase, Professor Warwick Anderson, Chairman of the NHMRC Research Committee, says, ‘It will place our researchers in an ideal position to contribute to the worldwide pool of knowledge from which new and innovative healthcare approaches will be developed.’

Cash injection for 149 A&Es.

Details of a £115 million upgrade of 149 A&E departments in England has been announced by Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health (England).

The search for missing mass finds funds for UK researchers

london British efforts to discover the Universe's missing mass have received a cash injection of £5.2 million (US$ 8.3 million) over the next four years.

Treasury cash offers NHS a fighting chance.

THE CASH injection for public services expected this week should provide for more nurse- led services, RCN general secretary Christine Hancock has said.

NHS cash injection due next week

NHS cash injection due next week

Service quality in hospital care: the development of an in-patient questionnaire.

Describes the development of a multi-item scale for assessing in-patient perceptions of service quality in an NHS or NHS Trust hospital. Presents evidence of the high reliability of the scale and its factor structure. Five intangible factors emerge: empathy, relationship of mutual respect, dignity, understanding of illness and religious needs, along with two tangible factors: food and physical environment. Results in a trial hospital indicate that patients' perceptions meet or exceed expectations in respect of four of the seven factors and 22 of the 49 individual variables. Of concern, however, while possibly not generalizable, must be the unfulfilled expectations in respect of the factors "relationship of mutual respect" and "understanding of illness" and the individual variables relating to the various communications between doctors and patients. Not unexpectedly, dissatisfaction is also expressed with the physical environment. Argues that the situation can only be remedied, usually, by a large injection of cash--an unlikely scenario.

Making assumptions — institutional constraints to irrigation design and management

An injection of foreign cash and technical expertise should lead to more efficient, improved water-distribution systems. But what happens when schemes are designed without practical knowledge of existing local practices or the social setting?

PN education needs a cash injection

Of the many questions which sprang to mind when practice nurse Ina Gordon was dismissed recently, perhaps the most pertinent was: ‘Where was the training, guidance and professional supervision necessary to ensure that such errors could not occur?’

Partnership and community: The Grimethorpe Activity Zone

The Barnsley Partnership's commitment to involvement in the local community attempts to raise awareness of the role of the Partnership, and also to discover the key issues of importance to local people. This enables the Partnership to learn and understand the culture of local communities, to identify local education and training needs and those areas in which the Partnership can effectively add value. On the basis of no cash injection, the Partnership hopes to ensure self‐reliance and empowerment rather than dependence.

New cash injection for top nursing initiatives

New cash injection for top nursing initiatives

'N EKONOMIESE EVALUERING VAN HERSTRUKTURERINGS-MOONTLIKHEDE IN DIE SWARTLAND / An economic evaluation of restructuring possibilities in the Swartland

Abstract The South African grain-producing regions have suffered severe fluctuation as regard national yields, resulting in measures being taken in respect of certain cereals to bring the supply in line with the national demand. The Swartland is one of the more stable wheat producing regions and the drastic cut in wheat prices during the 1988/89 season caused large-scale dissatisfaction amongst the producers, which in turn led to an investigation into restructuring possibilities in the Swartland. The point of departure was the creation of a representative farming model for the Middle Swartland subregion. Information was gathered by means of postal questionnaires. The dynamic linear programming technique was applied to this model over a twelve year period. The risk factor was then incorporated by applying the Target MOTAD programming technique to the model. A single cash injection of R130 per hectare was necessary to get the DLP model to function successfully. In the DLP model the solution stabilised after a five year period, while the risk model stabilised after eight years. Different cropping and livestock patterns were derived from the models. The general conclusion is that the restructuring of farmina patterns in the Swartland has definite potential.

Trevor clay fund receives £10,000 cash injection

Trevor clay fund receives £10,000 cash injection

Cash injection for audit programmes

Cash injection for audit programmes

Unions accept call for health charter.

Delegates at the Trade Union Congress in Bournemouth unanimously passed a motion proposing a 'Charter for Health', which calls for I the full funding of the nurses' pay award and an urgent injection of cash into the NHS.

Anonymous cash injection to fight hepatitis b

Anonymous cash injection to fight hepatitis b

Cash injection for regional services.

Over £40 million has been earmarked for supra regional services in England as part of the Government's December announcement of extra funds for the NHS.