Comment archive – Page 162
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CommentFinding the right balance between social care and healthcare
Strategic change is required to reduce the sharpness of the differential between social care, as a largely paid-for service, and health as an essentially free service
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CommentPatient involvement: a silver bullet for innovation spread?
Patient involvement is repeatedly identified as a common condition for supporting the spread of innovation in the NHS, writes Trevor Fernandes
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Can we trust the vanguard numbers?
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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CommentTreating private patients in NHS hospitals – benefit or cost?
An independent investigation is needed into whether trusts are getting significant net additions to their income from treating private patients, and whether the drive to set aside yet further beds for private patients should be allowed to continue. By Colin Leys
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CommentLearning agility is a top predictor of leadership potential
Leadership development needs to shift the focus onto developing learners who can create solutions. By Kate Wilson
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CommentRTT admission rates collapse
Admissions per working day fell dramatically, to the lowest January level ever recorded, as the NHS followed central guidance to shut down routine care and release beds for emergency admissions. One year waiters – a key goal for next year’s plans – went up again and exceeded 2,000 for the ...
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The NHS needs a chief anthropologist more than any chief inspector
Andy Cowper on the massive and largely undiscussed set of cultural problems that the NHS has
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Staff survey results, patients attacked and CEO moves
Your essential update on health for the week
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LeaderInnovation is vital to the NHS's sustainability and future
Alastair McLellan on how the HSJ Partnership Awards winners and those shortlisted have accepted the challenge to help the NHS deliver during a period of intense pressure
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CommentA piecemeal approach to transform cancer care won't work
Having reached the half way mark, Moira Fraser reviews the NHS’s implementation of the five year cancer strategy launched in July 2015 and the obstacles impeding progress
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Decision time for property disposals
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: £780m bonanza for trusts that stay on target
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: NHS England unhappy with tanks on its lawn
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Towards good news
Andy Cowper shares some bits of actual good news peppered with a dash of a downer at the end.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: CareBnB, slow motion pathology, and zero days analysis
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: A Beastly bout of Flu
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter delves into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provides unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: ACO out, ICS in
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. By Dave West.
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CommentPlanning for next winter must start now
Derek Alderson on how we need to look at increasing capacity, reconfiguring surgical services and greater separation of elective and emergency sites sooner than later to avoid winter pressures
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CommentThe back story of the former bagel mogul behind ‘Care BnB’
The CareRooms concept occurred to me after spending the last 25 years in healthcare and being a long term carer for my father, who died in 2016. But I started off selling bagels. By CareRooms chief executive Paul Gaudin
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CommentIncreasing productivity and maximising capacity is essential
Four Eyes Insight helps NHS trusts improve operational productivity. In the first of two articles, the company’s founders explain their experience of the productivity opportunity and the clinical perspective they bring to it.