Comment archive – Page 183
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Transforming Care not transformative
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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CommentPatient groups' united ask from the long term NHS plan
With the NHS 10 year long term plan in the making, Jeremy Taylor outlines the recommendations of a wide range of leaders in the voluntary sector to improve health and care.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Stevens' and Hancock's priorities, management consultant spend
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Expensive drug dilemmas need a sophisticated approach
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. This week by HSJ commissioning correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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CommentMore money, not yet enough people: it’s time to get creative
Thinking differently about how we engage our workforce is key to addressing some of the major obstacles we’re facing in cancer care, writes Jane Maher
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Trusts drowning in debt
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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LeaderPragmatic Stevens focusses on keeping his vision alive
Simon Stevens is a man on a mission – and that mission is to control expectations.
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CommentLeadership vacancies in the NHS
An upcoming report has found that the role of leaders is changing as we move towards integrated care with significant efforts needed to build a pipeline of leaders, say Saffron Cordery and Suzie Bailey
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CommentThe new NHS plan should disrupt the status quo
Getting what we pay for, means finding a way to deliver with less than enough, states Mike Birtwistle
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Hancockism, plans and money
Andy Cowper discusses the arrival of a new health and social care secretary, the money, and the 10 Year Forward View.
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CommentOne year waiters double in six months
One year waiters should be going down, instead they are soaring, warns Rob Findlay
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LeaderWhat Matt Hancock’s arrival means for the NHS
The new health and social care secretary is keen to make his mark quickly, and has much to get to grips with, says Alastair McLellan.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Hunt's exit, Hancock's entrance and a big CEO appointment
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentHancock: I'll defend 'undervalued' NHS staff
New health secretary Matt Hancock, who took over the role from Jeremy Hunt this week, sets out his stall to the NHS in an exclusive editorial for HSJ.
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CommentWhat the NHS can learn from the Battle of Britain
The NHS can learn from Britain’s iconic national battle but only if we understand what really happened and ignore naive popular myths, writes Stephen Black
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: What does a new health secretary mean?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentHealth and housing cross sector commission can be a total game changer
Health and housing coupled together can reduce poverty, improve health and reduce demand on the NHS, states Lord Kerslake
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LeaderJeremy Hunt: a ‘good’ health secretary?
Jeremy Hunt’s tenure as health secretary - the longest there has been - has come to an end. HSJ editor Alastair Mclellan reflects on his achievements and missteps.
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CommentThe essentiality of safe space
Safe space within the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch is the antidote for toxins created by poor leadership, weak governance, misguided regulation and adversarial processes like complaints and litigation. By Scott Morrish
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Mediocrity and excellence
Andy Cowper acknowledges that NHS management is hard, that the political environment is insufficiently multipolar.