Comment archive – Page 216
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catch Up: Another special measures regime and NHS quango overhauled
Your essential update on health for the week
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CommentBonfire of financial penalties reaches cancer and RTT standards
Financial penalties are being lifted from high-profile standards including cancer and elective waiting times, so far without attracting much attention. How is this happening? And will it work, asks Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: How the East Was One
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentThe new financial year demonstrates just how tough things are going to get
Policy adviser Edward Cornick looks at the financial challenge for providers in 2017/18 following a survey of trust finance directors
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The unproven case for extended GP access
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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CommentThe American Healthcare Act decoded
Alice Murray and Saira Ghafur on the changes that the American Healthcare Act seeks to bring in US healthcare
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: The NHS faces a workforce Brexodus
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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CommentIs the NHS suffocating in its own froth?
For greater operational efficiency we must learn to focus less on pointless distractions and more on bite-sized, everyday win-wins, writes Paula Goode
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: No devo news is big devo news
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentThe stars are now aligning for a new Health and Care Act
Rather than using legislation to create new structures from the top down, this time it would be changing rules around established organisations
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catchup: Virgin Care legal action, CCG mergers and offsetting the deficit
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Next steps for STPs, part 2 – Greater Manchester and beyond
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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CommentRight people in the right place and time is core to efficiency
The only way to protect consultants and preserve their services is to ensure absolute transparency in consulting staffing arrangements
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CommentThe future is now for vanguards
As we mark the two-year anniversary of the launch of the vanguards, Samantha Jones takes a look at how their work is helping to address gaps in healthcare
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CommentMaking innovation meaningful for true advances in healthcare
Faster procedures with cross-specialty capabilities are vital to greater efficiency in the NHS, writes Dirk Vananderoye
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CommentThe future of the NHS demands hard questions
The health service of the 21st century needs to be more responsive to patients’ needs – mere financial efficiency is not enough
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Making the NHS's case to the Treasury
HSJ’s email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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CommentRemoval of the nursing student bursary is a reckless experiment
UNISON’s head of health Christina McAnea responds to a recent HSJ comment piece in which June Girvin argued for removal of the bursary
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CommentDe-bugging the system: the government’s new push to tackle E. coli infections
The strategy to combat the rise of E. coli is admirable but is it achievable without joined-up action across the health and care system?
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CommentWe’re witnessing the greatest opportunity for reform in a generation
The answers to easing the extreme pressures on the NHS already exist – now we need to use them, says Natalie Douglas