Comment archive – Page 212
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CommentAll money is not created equal
The NHS needs more money, but not all money is created equally. The current context may offer opportunities for innovation in funding the health and care service
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catchup: Another reorganisation, regulator's mea culpa, and random CV checks
Your essential update on health for the week
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: A reckoning is due
Contact me in confidence here. 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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CommentPreventing another Ian Paterson
Narinder Kapur offers thoughts on the systemic and psychological weaknesses that allowed the disgraced surgeon to continue his dangerous work
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CommentMay's got a good poker face but will her bluff be called?
The Conservative manifesto made a big gamble on its social care policy – the downside could be that the insurance industry will make it a losing bet, writes Jenny Ousbey
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CommentShredded nerves and disrupted services - crucial lessons from the Docklands bomb
After the 1996 Docklands bomb, HSJ wrote: “The acute trust stood down 24 hours after the explosion, but work for Tower Hamlets Healthcare was just beginning.” The trust’s CEO writes about what they learned from that time.
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CommentNHS 70-100: A new hope
Beyond this election, public choices may need to be made as part of a “30-year forward view”, says Mark Orchard
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Expert BriefingBeware stumbling into another 'Tory top-down reorganisation of the NHS'
In an ominous echo of 2010, the Conservative party’s 2017 election manifesto includes a discreet mention which could snowball into a disruptive reorganisation of the NHS.
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CommentCommissioners can think about more than money
NHS commissioners have a useful tool to draw on when tendering – now they just need to use it, says Don Redding
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CommentYou're welcome: how John's Campaign is changing attitudes towards family carers
Senior NHS managers can play a crucial role in helping to ensure that obstacles do not prevent the loved ones of people with dementia being with them in hospital, as Julia Jones explains
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Pivot, And How To Make It
Cowper’s Cut is a new weekly column from HSJ’s comment editor Andy Cowper. It will be published every Monday and seeks to serve as an informative and entertaining stimulant for HSJ’s subscribers at the start of the working week.
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CommentAn idea that could smash the clinical silos
By placing junior doctors in the most innovating organisations we could create a more open-minded culture, writes Nishma Manek
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catchup: NHS response to Manchester attack, Tory U-turn, and the deficit uncovered
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentDalton: Creating a sustainable NHS remains the goal
Sir David Dalton offers an update on what the NHS has achieved in the wake of his inquiry
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CommentEnacting change at pace and scale in the NHS
What started as a procurement project using GS1 barcodes at Derby Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust will eventually give us data for the whole patient pathway
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CommentRecognise the value of people powered health initiatives
It’s high time we reduce the demand on mainstream health services by involving the local people
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CommentWhat would a new Conservative government mean for NHS buildings?
Robert Ede argues that an ambitious programme of capital investment in the manifesto must go hand in hand with new legislation.
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CommentNew care models need the right organisational delivery model
New organisational forms, planned and developed locally, will help to make integrated care the norm
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Leading from the front or just paying lip service
A new fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector.
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CommentTurning negatives into positives: the importance of learning from mistakes
The Medical Defence Union’s Michael Devlin examines whether a new patient safety body will lead to better investigations into medical mistakes.