Comment archive – Page 190
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CommentWhy the government should introduce a healthcare spending target
Given the pressures on health spending, there exists the dilemma of setting social care spending on a more sustainable trajectory for the longer term
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catchup: Former CEO admits fraud, capital funding warning, and rationing row
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: The signal and the noise
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Zone four and beyond
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentDon't ignore the councillors
When it comes to decisions around health and social care, there needs to be a bottom-up approach involving local leaders and not top-down pre-determined solutions
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CommentNHS England should learn a lesson from Ofsted and get tough over STPs
There’s a real danger that sustainability and transformation plans will fail on mental health services unless action is taken now
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Shifting risk to commissioners, and no more sandwiches
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: London - winning on A&E?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentAre we prepared to pay more for healthcare?
The fiscal sustainability report of the government’s economic forecasting body poses specific challenges regarding healthcare spending and improved productivity in the NHS
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catchup: Trusts reject financial targets and DH job cuts confirmed
Your essential update on the week in health
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CommentFour ways in which the NHS can learn from others
Narinder Kapur specifies how learning from others can be best put into practice in the NHS
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CommentE-rostering: Helping hospitals ease winter pressures and boost staff morale
How effective staff management through e-rostering can help hospitals to meet challenges, improving staff morale and patient’s experience
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Contracting block out
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 BriefingThe Commissioner: Around the U-bend with STPs
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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CommentCould imaging be a goldmine for NHS artificial intelligence?
NHS’s wealth of imaging data can be used to start teaching machines how to recognise parts of the human anatomy, and recognise abnormalities.
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CommentElective waiting times tread water in November
Waiting times were steady in November, and other indicators followed the usual post-2012 pattern. Which means things are still getting steadily worse, writes Rob Findlay
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CommentRed Cross: Here's how we improve care for our most vulnerable
The prime minister’s review of health and social care integration offers the chance to start backing up potentially life-changing schemes with culture change and resources
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CommentKarin Smyth: Getting behind the NHS headlines
Karin Smyth MP reflects on the way ahead following the Commons public accounts committee’s inquiry into the financial sustainability of the NHS
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CommentRevalidation for doctors must not become a box-ticking exercise
Sir Keith Pearson says the revalidation process is changing things for the better, but that much work remains to be done
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LeaderSimon Stevens will not resign – yet
It is likely that Number 10 did not choose to go to war with NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens over NHS funding. But they have had numerous warnings to avoid their “NHS has had more money than it asked for” line and have also continued to privately badmouth Mr ...