Comment archive – Page 193
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CommentWhere next for England's referral-to-treatment waiting times?
Expect 20 week RTT waits and 4 million patients on the waiting list in 2017, rising to 21 week waits in 2018, and so on indefinitely until the NHS in England starts keeping up with demand
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Flickers in a pitch black tunnel
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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CommentHow to keep clinicians happy with IT: don’t mess up a data project
Managing data quality well adds up to a successful mutual investment between clinical and IT colleagues, with patients the winners
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Comment“Safe space” proposals could worsen relationships between patients and the NHS
Whilst protecting staff from inappropriate actions from bad employers is good, preventing patients from knowing the full truth would have serious consequences
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Keeping NHS England happy
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentWhat's holding clinicians back from leadership roles?
The Nuffield Trust’s new survey shows that much is still to be done to encourage clinicians to pursue strategic positions
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CommentWhy record sharing for multidisciplinary care is vital in the NHS
It is vital for organisations to come together and develop a single, combined record for each patient, writes Luke Readman
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catchup: Hunt on NHS leadership, funding games and new waiting targets
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert BriefingWhat's new in care models: Should Staffordshire's £1.2bn contracts be abandoned?
The week in new care models It has been a huge week in new care models and health policy generally. There are at least three things I could have written about at length this week. Dudley! I gave a talk at the recent NHS Providers conference about great ...
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CommentCapital financing options are plentiful, STPs need to think differently
One common STP priority where the gap between ambition and reality seems particularly exposed is that of capital finance
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CommentHow evidence-informed health can tackle the supply and demand gap
The three ingredients which can ensure that evidence – with all its money-saving potential – is incorporated into NHS practice
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CommentHere are your referral to treatment trajectories for the next two years
The waiting time guru runs the published RTT data through a planning model and produces detailed trajectories for trusts and specialties across England
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LeaderUpdated: What Jeremy Hunt really thinks about NHS managers
There is a rule that all good journalists should abide by: if you get something wrong, correct and apologise, and do it quickly.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Chancellor has NHS managers in his sights
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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CommentNo jam today, and no jam tomorrow either
Policy ambition and public funding don’t add up in either the short or long term – and the result spells long-term economic trouble
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: 'Left to die alone'
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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CommentHow Brexit and the US election could be impacting your IT budgets
It is a good time to ensure great value for money for the products and services you need, to support your organisation deliver great patient care
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CommentThis is how we get the measure of patient safety
We must continue seeking the most effective set of indicators if we are to obtain a more accurate picture of patient safety, writes Lord Ara Darzi
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CommentA simple idea that could breathe new life into clinical leadership
A collaboration between the NHS Leadership Academy and undergraduate clinical education providers could stimulate an interest in – and capability for – this neglected area, says Ali Raza
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LeaderNHS funding is becoming a game of chicken
Many in the NHS believe that a bailout is just one or two scandals away – it is a dangerous assumption