Comment archive – Page 155
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Imminent NHS funding deal, provider changes and health and care honours
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentBiggest ever RTT waiting list
The NHS has now failed to keep up with demand since RTT records began, writes Rob Findlay
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CommentDemand, capacity, and the law of averages
If you plan capacity without allowing for variation, disaster will follow. Or will it? By Rob Findlay
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CommentThe right to stay with people with dementia
Allowing carers to stay with dementia patients and doing away with visiting hours reduces incidents of stress among patients
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Back to elective waiting times
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The outcome based contracting conundrum
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Feedback and comments are welcome, so please feel free to email me in confidence.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise
Andy Cowper on why if we collude with a fear narrative by lying about NHS finances, then we are lost
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CommentIntegrated care has the potential to improve health outcomes
Chris Ham and Anna Charles outline the findings and recommendations of the health and social care committee’s review of integrated care development in the NHS
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Expert BriefingPerformance watch: Tackling the waiting list can’t wait
Performance Watch understands that NHS England is finalising funding for local commissioners to put elective waiting times performance back on the right track.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Hunt’s Monday meeting, a chain expansion, and CCG dysfunction
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentRisks to the NHS when referring to private hospitals
With numerous systemic patient safety problems in private hospitals, the NHS cannot shirk its responsibility if patients are harmed in private hospitals, says Colin Leys
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CommentHow can pharma support NHS service change?
Steve How, Paul Midgley and Oli Hudson, of the Wilmington Healthcare Consulting Team, find some answers in NHS England guidance for commissioners
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CommentIntegration is not all about structure or organisational form
It is high time the community health sector was brought in from the cold and used as a willing flexible partner to redesign care for urgent and long care needs of our local populations, writes Matthew Winn
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Community services on the move again
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight. This week by HSJ primary and community correspondent Rebecca Thomas.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Happy National Lying About the NHS Deficit Day!
Andy Cowper muses on NHS Improvement’s misleading quarter four data on NHS finances
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Expert BriefingHow £250m of capital funding slipped away
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Merger in the pipeline, fire safety risks and gender pay gap
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentPatient leadership for real - The Sussex model for patient partnership
With patients as trusted equals in decision making, Sussex MSK Partnership (Central) appointed the first patient director in the NHS to facilitate patient partnerships for improvement and governance, says David Gilbert
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CommentA new funding settlement needs to put the NHS in everyone’s pocket
Smart use of funding can help people to benefit from digital innovations in health and care
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Comment'NHS Assembly': clear purpose, inclusiveness and sufficient power needed
A spirit of humility and collaboration must be inculcated in the “NHS Assembly’’ for the sake of co-designing and co-producing the 10 year plan for the service. By Jeremy Taylor