Comment archive – Page 103
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Cough up for the costly coping mechanism
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Watch out for that trend
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Contact me in confidence.
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CommentCowper’s Cut : Ha-Ha, or human shielding with an NHS Kiss
SCENE: INTERIOR, 10 DOWNING STREET, THURSDAY 18 JUNE 2020. A DISHEVELLED, BALD FIGURE (THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM) SWEEPS IMPERIOUSLY FROM THE ROOM, LEAVING OUR HERO AND HEROINE, MATT HANCOCK AND DIDO HARDING, ALONE TOGETHER. MATT HANCOCK: Yeah, thanks Dominic! DIDO HARDING: Thanks Dom, best to Mary! MH: ...
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Solidarity is the key
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Big changes to social care, shielding and London’s covid stats
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Covid turnaround for London
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingVulnerable patients are forced to choose between their lives and income
On Monday HSJ revealed the government is planning to end the shielding programme for over two million ‘extremely clinically vulnerable’ people next month. The decision has highlighted many of the problems the programme has been faced with from the start.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Independence day
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentUK now reliant on China for majority of PPE imports
Matthew Bevington sheds light on the remarkable turnaround in demand for PPEs where imports rose by 45 per cent in April, compared to a year earlier.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Stop shielding, start calling
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentSARS tells us covid will have serious psychological impact on staff
Based on evidence of earlier SARS-CoV epidemics, Valerie Amies and Clive Martinez analyse the current pandemic’s potential psychological toll on healthcare workers and the implications for sustainable service delivery
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Health but social care
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentWe must offer patients hope, even if we can't offer timely treatment
With no capacity for any operations other than the urgent and emergency, waiting list growth looms large over patients, writes Polly Dickerson.
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Comment'Covid hot’ care homes must be commissioned immediately
A whole systems approach, including the commissioning of a new type of care home, is required to alter the course of the pandemic and reduce its impact. By Dr Anna Down, Dr Arjun Dhillon and Dr Graham Stretch
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Watching the defectives
Andy Cowper on the current political upheavals, data governance and NHS’ contracts, and declining ratings of the government over tackling the pandemic.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: The big freeze
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Cancer warning, Nightingales' £220m price tag and BLM hits the NHS
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: The long goodbye
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentWaiting times rising by one week, every week
Rob Findlay’s insights over rising waiting times in April reveals over a million patients waiting longer than 18 weeks and 11,000 waiting longer than a year.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Back to normal is not good enough
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, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...