Comment archive – Page 173
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Assessing the long-term plan
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: A big waiting list reveal
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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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Long-term plan, planning guidance and cancer screening
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentEngland's waiting list still too big
The waiting list should be shrinking at this time of year, but it isn’t. In better news, the number of one year waiters is coming down.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Seven things you might have missed in the long-term plan
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentStreamlining procurement is not a pretext to exclude non-NHS providers
Procurement must be about identifying and securing the best possible services for patients, whether from NHS, independent sector, voluntary, or social enterprise providers. By David Hare
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CommentTranslating cancer care innovation into practice
Professor Christopher J Harrison, medical director of The Christie, explains how he and his colleagues made use of a network model to improve the experiences of cancer patients in the region.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Five digital takeaways from the long-term plan
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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CommentMake equal partnerships with other sectors for the long-term plan to succeed
The long term plan has a wash of warm words about working with the voluntary and community sector but no definite intent to direct commissioning pounds that way, notes Don Redding
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CommentRambling long-term plan fails to grip NHS’s problems
Adam Lent gives his views on the NHS long-term plan
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CommentLeadership development should be a lifelong seminar
Peter Homa captures leadership lessons he learnt in his nearly 40 years NHS leadership experience
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: New year, new appointments
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Long term plan offers short term fix
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A brief history of NHS plans
With the release of the 10 Year Forward View imminent, Andy Cowper reflects on the success of the various NHS plans published in the last two decades and what to expect from the 10YFV
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Primary care IT is not one of the big NHS problems. Why is ’Appless ’Ancock trying to solve it?
Andy Cowper explains why the DHSC’s latest push to overhaul IT in primary care does not make sense
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CommentCowper’s Cut: That warm feeling down your back? It’s not rain
Andy Cowper discusses the government’s recently released Brexit operational readiness guidance for the health and care system in England
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: CQC criticised, people power and the costs of special measures
HSJ Catch Up This weekly email gives HSJ subscribers a vital update on the biggest stories from the last week in health. If you have been out of the office or otherwise just too busy to keep up, HSJ Catch Up will ensure you are still in the know. ...
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Rating the Russell era
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentWhat is needed from the long-term plan?
The NHS plan will set a direction of travel which looks set to create integrated care systems across England but there has been relatively little public debate over these bodies, notes Niall Dickson
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Waiting to get real
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.