Comment archive – Page 22
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CommentComms professionals can help prevent patient safety problems being swept under the carpet
In the wake of the Lucy Letby scandal, a former senior NHS communications professional points out the stark lessons the NHS should learn from the way it balances patient safety and reputation.
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CommentThe emptiness of the ‘managers bad, clinicians good’ narrative
Looking at recent reports into maternity unit scandals at various trusts, David Oliver points out how managers with clinical qualifications or clinicians with management roles are equally responsible in leading and controlling safety values
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CommentThe three steps in a successful virtual wards programme
Sara Gariban highlights three barriers to scaling up virtual wards and how overcoming them will enable the NHS to fully harness their potential for patients, staff and the wider health and care system
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CommentUnearthing the hidden riches of your organisation’s data
The board of directors at AphA write on ways an organisation can benefit from proper refinement of data, shedding light on three critical functions – business intelligence, data science and analytics
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Regulation of managers is the easy answer
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentWe must be imaginative about boosting the learning disabilities workforce
Challenges in learning disability care persist, impacting lives and experiences within the NHS. Hope lies in recruiting, training, and empowering a diverse workforce for positive change, writes Dr Jane Padmore
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CommentHow doctors, managers and others learned to be system leaders together
The South East London ICS leadership academy provides long-term training to people at all levels within the ICS and from both the NHS and voluntary sector and other partners, writes Ben Collins
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Double discrimination
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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CommentThe worst time to get ill in England?
The latest patient backlog numbers are a wake-up call we can’t ignore. An immediate solution to the eye care backlog across the UK’s hospitals is ready and waiting, argues Adam Sampson, chief executive of the Association of Optometrists – optician practices on our high street
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Patient leadership goes global
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Many healthcare interventions are wasteful, we just don’t know which ones
Steve Black says the NHS must become much more serious about data collection if it is to tackle unwarranted variation in healthcare and make better use of resources
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The blame game
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Podcast: Patient experience in the post-covid era
This week HSJ Health Check focuses on patient experience and public perception of the NHS, with guests from National Voices and the Picker Institute.
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CommentHe did it! How Steve Barclay pulled off Health Week
The health secretary bravely battled cancer targets during a triumphant week-long celebration of everything that’s great about Westminster, writes Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Moving the blockage
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentThe workforce plan is wrong to focus on recruitment over retention
Georgia Stevenson discusses NHS England’s Long Term Workforce Plan, evaluating its potential to alleviate staffing shortages, enhance training routes, and ultimately improve care quality in maternity and neonatal services
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Expert BriefingThe Download: NHS tech’s pay problem
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentRacism is preventing the NHS from getting the most from its international recruits
Titilola Banjoko discusses the untapped expertise of healthcare professionals from the black and minority ethnic diaspora within the NHS
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Grit in the CoG
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Managers are the real heroes of the NHS movie
The NHS seems to hold to a sort of Hollywood view of history where a handful of heroes solve the problem and the backroom bureaucrats or managers are an impediment to – not the foundation of – success, writes Steve Black