Comment archive – Page 190
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CommentCowper's Cut: Potholes
Just as potholes can be fatal for travellers and should be filled, similarly the potholes in the substantial NHS infrastructure and estates backlog need to be filled, notes Andy Cowper
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Expert BriefingWeekly Catch Up: New A&E low, handover delays and STP integration
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Changes for A&E admission payments are coming
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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CommentLong waits soar as hospitals struggle to admit
Over one year waiters shot up by 20 per cent, as admission rates slumped in the face of record A&E pressures.
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CommentRepeats of past errors will create better care fund on steroids
In the jungle that is the politics of public spending, there are few bigger beasts than the NHS.
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CommentDon't target the waiting list size
At the core of this year’s planning guidance lay something rather unusual.
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LeaderThe nine tests that will prove if the government is serious about NHS reform
A year after the publication of the Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens set out five tests for George Osborne as he prepared the 2015 spending review, which the NHS England chief hoped would fund his vision.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Absolutely nobody has a plan (Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring!)
Andy Cowper opines that currently no one has a plan for the NHS and even though it is scary it is OK
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: CCGs can't work miracles
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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CommentThe importance of a proportionate regulatory system
The regulatory framework needs to respond to the changing NHS system architecture with the advent of STPs and ICSs, writes Ella Jackson
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CommentTime to harness the renewable energy of community
A holistic approach to care needs is required along with engagement with the wider community to bring about integration within the NHS, writes Paul Burstow
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Disputed data and managers' morals
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: February in A&E
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentThe case against consultancies is far from proven
Richard Lewis argues that the research asking trusts to stay the use of management consultants has simplified a complex subject
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The new Nicholson Challenge – moving on from David to Viv
Andy Cowper discusses how the service can meet “The Viv Nicholson Challenge” and how much more money to ask for and in return for what
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CommentDeep concerns about the ACO contract remain unaddressed
Government continues to ignore campaigners’ specific concerns, instead offer reassurances on spurious issues
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: May’s grand plan, regional reorganisation, and mergers weekend
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentCatering to children with ongoing health needs
Improving communication, collaboration and continuity of care would ensure that children are seen in the right place by the right person at the right time
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Escaping the invisible asylum
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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CommentAgree to disagree for the sake of the NHS
Development of resilient health policy is possible only when different and opposing voices are heard or else we will keep yoyoing between half baked solutions, notes Richard Taunt