Comment archive – Page 100
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CommentService specialisation and digital technologies can offer real patient improvements
Carl Shoben and John Underwood write about a new poll on the NHS which points out the public’s top two priorities are tackling the waiting lists that have built up during covid and greater investment in the health service
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Inspections slated, juniors quizzed and social care disappointed
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentUK’s emergency response to the covid-19 pandemic
The experience of rapidly accelerating research on how to treat and prevent covid-19, in the RAPID C-19 initiative, explained by Nwamaka Umeweni, Hywel Williams, Anthony Kessel and Anna Brett
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CommentThe media must support, not criticise, GPs
Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, argues that coverage of concerns about remote GP appointments is undermining confidence, while many patients are being assessed effectively and safely.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The cost of a system leader
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentWaiting list soars past 5.6 million patients
The waiting list continues to grow rapidly as demand mostly recovers but activity cannot. By Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Forgetting the war that’s still happening
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentUnpaid carers’ rights are overlooked in hospital discharge
The discharge to assess model, rapidly extended during covid and still in place, has in many cases failed family members looking after loved ones at home, omitting carers from the discharge process, says Helen Walker of Carers UK.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Power to the ICS
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Making Scotland’s NHS 10pc better
In his regular dispatch from north of the border, Henry Anderson discusses the aim to remobilise the health service as quickly as possible over the next five years
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Coming back from crisis
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Warnings over safety, draw-down and hospital
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentThe Blithering Chronicles: Towards accuracy – the new clarity
Julian Patterson reports on NHS Blithering, the country’s most challenged health economy
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: ‘One workforce’ – the tough ICS to-do list
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentCrowdsourcing ideas for hospital design can bring real benefits to our NHS
Dame Elaine Inglesby-Burke, a judge for the Wolfson Economics Prize 2021, suggests how fresh ideas can radically improve hospital planning and design
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Serious intervention or empty threat?
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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CommentBlithering Chronicles exclusive: Amanda Pritchard on her first week
A month ago, Amanda Pritchard succeeded Simon Stevens as chief executive of NHS England. Julian Patterson takes a satirical peek at her first week in post.
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CommentAs a CEO from an ethnic minority, staff expect me to make a difference to inequality
Patricia Miller, Dorset County Hospital CEO, shares her approach to building a culture of inclusion
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The ICS house of mirrors
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. Brought to you this week, for the last time, by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.