Comment archive – Page 107
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CommentAverage waiting time for NHS operations hits six months thanks to covid
The request to postpone elective care was enacted quickly and comprehensively, the latest RTT data suggests. By Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Keeping count
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Contact me in confidence.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: R is for regional
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentHelping NHS staff survive the covid storm
A new paper discusses how organisations should enhance the mental health resilience of the NHS workforce to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic, writes Andrew Coley
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Sir David’s journey
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentHealth inequalities and covid-19 - our greatest challenge
How the NHS, local government and others in West Yorkshire are trying to mitigate the greater threat from covid-19 to more deprived and excluded groups.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Under cover of covid
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentCommunity services ‘will not bow’ as ‘bigger surge’ bites
Andrew Ridley looks at the challenges, preparation and recovery phases as the NHS starts planning beyond the initial peak of the outbreak and for the second phase of covid-19 response
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Emperor’s New PPE
Andy Cowper gives a lowdown on the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic right from making difficult choices to its political communications
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CommentNarrow NHS inquiry into covid-19 will not meet needs of BAME staff
An independent public inquiry must explore factors contributing to the disproportionate effect of covid-19 on BAME communities, writes Dr Martin Edobor
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: An inquiring mind turns to covid-19
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: An opportunity to tackle widening health inequalities
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: A tale of two Nightingales, charities sound warning note, and the PPE lottery
Your essential update on health for the week — this week focused on the coronavirus outbreak.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Now the pressure relievers feel the squeeze
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentA public inquiry into the UK’s response to coronavirus must begin now
Former Department of Health permanent secretary Una O’Brien says work on a covid-19 inquiry must start now and will need innovation on a previously unimaginable scale
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Safe but unnecessarily secluded
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment‘Think yourself into a new way of acting’
Will Warburton calls for innovative approaches to understand, assess, learn from and sustain the effective changes that have rapidly been put in place by the NHS.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Acutes impressed but did the discharge plan Excel?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentWithout colleges, the People Plan will have a hollow core
Michael Wood reflects on the opportunity that covid-19 may have created for the future of colleges and their role in retraining, reskilling and restoring workforce.
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CommentTesting and contact tracing: a role for local leaders
Local authorities must be at the heart of contact tracing because covid-19 is best understood as a pattern of local outbreaks rather than a national pandemic. By Sir Chris Ham and Robin Tuddenham.