Comment archive – Page 169
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: The battle lines are drawn
Welcome to HSJ’s new Performance Watch expert briefing. Our new fortnightly newsletter will delve into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provide unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them.
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Comment
Caring for carers is the right thing to do
Julia Jones tells how her campaign is committed to promoting a welcoming approach to care givers as a policy and in practice
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Expert Briefing
Lintern's Risk Register: The NHS is a bad employer for too many
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under the radar stories.
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Comment
Accountable care is a means to an end
To ease the difficult transition towards accountable care, Claire Kennedy and Julia Simon outline various dos and don’ts for organisations
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Optimism breaks down as financial risk grows
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: The independent NHS enters uncharted waters
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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Comment
We threw the kitchen sink at DTOCs and it worked
Faced with high delayed transfers of care, Medway Clinical Commissioning Group identified four discharge pathways a year ago and things started turning around, explain Stuart Jeffery, James Lowell, John Britt, and Helen Martin
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The ‘pin the blame on the donkey’ game gets under way
With a recent double sourced leak having begun the blame game for the NHS funding in the Budget, Andy Cowper analyses the game of political football being played out
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Comment
The budget was more positive than expected
Overall for the NHS, this Budget was much better than feared but not nearly as good as it needed to be. By Anita Charlesworth, John Appleby and Siva Anandaciva
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Budget woes and Awards winners
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Escaping the A&E chopping block
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Will there be mass elective cancellations this winter?
Welcome to HSJ’s new Performance Watch expert briefing. Our new fortnightly newsletter will delve into the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders and provide unrivalled insight into what they plan to do about them.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Devo is go! (Subject to caveats)
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy.
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Leader
'Which of the children do we shoot first?' - the budget leaves the NHS with harsh choices
The government has a very clear ambition for the £1.6bn additional funding allocated to the NHS for 2018-19. £1bn is to be used to arrest the decline in elective waiting times and to begin to reduce the waiting list; £600m will be employed to make sure the NHS meets the ...
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Comment
The financial picture for trusts in Q2
Tim Connolly shares his insights into the latest quarterly financial and performance figures for the provider sector from NHS Improvement
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Comment
Analysis: The areas seeing sustained falls in emergency admissions
Containing and reducing emergency hospital admissions is often seen as the holy grail of sustainable and better integrated healthcare. For most it has been elusive, but HSJ has identified and spoken to several areas which appear to have seen sustained reductions in recent years.
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Comment
Three tests this budget needs to pass to reverse the impact of the NHS funding gap
Chris Askew asks whether the budget will reverse the decline of access to timely and good quality healthcare
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: A Budget for putting politics above prosperity
We’re approaching a moment when a government that has been warned that the NHS funding situation will threaten quality, access and safety is going to choose to ignore that warning, says Andy Cowper in the runup to the Budget
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Getting tough on 'indefensible practice'
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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Comment
It’s time for a new mindset to unlock the power of the NHS’s support staff
A change of mindset is needed if the NHS is to truly unlock the power of support staff to deliver better value, better environments and better care, writes Ian Crichton