Comment archive – Page 223
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CommentTransparency can bring about the desired changes in the NHS
If the NHS leadership really wants to follow through on its message for the future, they need to embrace transparency. Ric Whalley writes
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CommentAn open letter to Jeremy Hunt from a whistleblower
Sharmila Chowdhury calls on the health secretary to resolve the injustices faced by so many
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CommentLet's reward diverse boards
Award schemes should stop rewarding organisations with unrepresentative boards, says Debbie Sorkin
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CommentThe NHS can learn about gender balance from FTSE 100 boards
Amanda Reynolds writes that the private sector has made significant progress when it comes to boardroom gender balance and this can be replicated in the NHS
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LeaderNothing stopping women from being good clinicians as well as leaders
Gillian Fairfield on how women can successfully take up the role of clinician and manager despite all odds
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CommentRemodel the NHS house while there's still some sunshine
Chris Hopson on the planning guidance and the NHS’s challenge in 2016-17
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CommentDo more than talk about prevention
Service transformation and redesign are needed to achieve more expansive prevention in healthcare, says Jim McManus
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CommentBeware the cost of digitisation
There is little doubt about the power of digitisation to transform healthcare – the only thing that needs utmost consideration is the cost factor
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Why adopting the bright ideas of others is the smart way to make those big savings
Sharing examples of success is helpful and is also where we have seen trusts reduce costs and improve value, writes Ben James
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CommentAn all-inclusive NHS is achievable
Discrimination against minorities is prevalent in the NHS, but a climate of inclusion, mutual respect and supportiveness will ensure that the benefits of diversity are gained
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CommentEnd Game: Farewell to the wee man of the NHS
Tim Kelsey was bid adieu with choice quotes and a curious case of 40 names
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CommentThe shortage of women leaders does patients a disservice
Three quarters of all CCG GP leads are men. Julie Wood argues for better management of female talent to redress the balance
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CommentNHS employment must be made as attractive as possible
In her foreword to HSJ’s workforce investigation, Clare Panniker describes the pressures that forced her trust to spend £18m on agency staff last year, and the system-wide solutions
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CommentBreaking free from the short-term, one-way, top-down system
In the future NHS, where different organisations work collaboratively with a sense of shared purpose, how does performance management fit in?
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CommentWhere does the spending review leave social care?
The short termist ‘hotpotch’ of measures taken by the government does nothing to stem the growing pressures on social care
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CommentIs Southern Health a one-off? Ministers have no way of knowing
The leaked Southern Health review exposed a gap of knowledge about quality of care. Shaun Lintern asks whether the problem is limited to only one trust
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CommentMove patient and public involvement from the margins to the mainstream
The benefits of improved engagement in healthcare
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CommentMichael White: Osborne’s ‘magic sofa’ does not sit comfortably
The chancellor found cash for the NHS down the back of the settee, but cuts to social care may come back to haunt him
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CommentEngland breaches 18 week target
If you take non-reporting trusts into account, it looks like the English NHS breached 18 weeks in October – for the first time since the target was originally achieved in January 2012
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CommentThe NHS must stop victimising bereaved families
Bereaved families of systemic failure-related deaths have far too often become second victims, due to the NHS’s misguided secrecy and focus on reputation management, writes Shaun Lintern