Comment archive – Page 139
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: Capital pot winners, Belgium Brexit hub and NHSX chief front-runner
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Comment
In-house whistleblowing investigations rush to comfortable outcomes
The NHS must have a different attitude to whistleblowers: bosses must listen and respond, not just think about how to keep them quiet. By Richard Peachey
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Can councils be true partners in ICS?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by commissioning correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Can NHSX unpick the digital quango tangle?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Ben Heather in confidence here.
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GIRFT allows poorly performing doctors 'to hide behind the team'
Compliance to Getting It Right First Time, is the NHS’ latest best chance of removing avoidable variation. However, it can also disguise the impact made by individual clincians. By Nadeem Moghal
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Ending bursaries is not the main reason behind the fall in nursing students
England has not sufficiently invested in nursing education, observe James Buchan and Ian Seccombe
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Rearranging the chairs
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: The battle for capital
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Cowper’s Cut:Tesco, Disneyfication and avoiding the real problems
Instead of stating the real problems facing the NHS, two leading figures are Disneyfying the problems and missing the point, rues Andy Cowper
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Winter hits elective waiting times
RTT waiting times shot up in December as winter started to bite. In better news, one year waits continued to fall. By Rob Findlay
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Weekly Catch Up: GP at Hand gets expansion nod, local council exits Luton ICS and ALBs on a short leash
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Comment
New QOF will improve quality of diabetes care
The new QOF will mitigate previous concerns about it encouraging mismanagement of complex patients and its retention will aid practices’ business continuity. By Robin Hewings
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Tin hats and stats
Welcome to Performance Watch - our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders, by performance correspondent James Illman. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
How to maximise the impact of NHS volunteers
Jullie Tran Graham shares insights and learnings from a recently released report that evaluates the impacts of volunteer interventions
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Why are some trusts improving on A&E while their peers fail?
Robert Royce analyses performance against the four hour A&E target since 2014-15 and shows that decline is not inevitable.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Not a good look
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Which is the justice and which the thief?
To understand the NHS, we need to understand the issue of money and power, says Andy Cowper
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Saving babies’ lives
In response to numerous cases of unsafe maternity and neonatal care, many initiatives have been introduced but their implementation remains inconsistent due to lack of training and funding, note James Titcombe and Bill Kirkup
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Curbing the market
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.