Comment archive – Page 224
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CommentEmpowering BME with an NHS Leadership Academy programme
Take inspiration from the Ready Now programme
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CommentGive out student loans to make nursing an attractive career
Number of nurses to be increased
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CommentUrgent care services are overstretched – we need to fund the cancer strategy now
Rising demand for support after treatment must be met with funding
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CommentPut NHS finances on the front line
The importance of clinical engagement to delivering better value
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CommentLord Prior: Two ways to help deliver our promise of transformation
There is huge potential to do things better in the NHS - and that is crucial if we are to achieve the care system envisaged in the Five Year Forward View, says Lord Prior
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CommentVideo: Women Leaders network discuss positive action
The second meeting of HSJ Women Leaders’ network saw a focus on discussion about targets and whether it was needed to bring about fair representation of women on NHS leadership boards.
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Let's push for gender equality now
Just as we have a workforce equality standard for race in the NHS, could we not have one for gender, Adele Waters asks
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CommentThe Cambridgeshire contract fiasco must be explained
It is troubling that neither commissioner nor provider has been able to explain the rapid collapse of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s £800m older people’s services contract, writes David Williams
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CommentVanguards in action
The key to success of the new care models is strong partnerships involving health, social care and others
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CommentThe status quo should not be an option for CCGs
Why CCGs need a change of direction if they are to truly succeed
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CommentEvaluating the first place-based programmes for systems leadership
A new evidence base shows the impact that systems leadership is having
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CommentBeware false dawns: this will be the NHS's toughest decade
Through this decade of austerity, health will have been protected relative to other government departments. But huge challenges remain for the NHS, says Anita Charlesworth
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Comment'Knife, life and wife': old stereotypes persist in surgery
So-called banter is an everyday reality for female surgeons, and could be keeping more women out of the specialty
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LeaderOne less health minister: how the government can lead by example
The Department is facing a reduction in its budget of 20 per cent. It therefore makes perfect sense for one minister to join the hundreds of DH staff who will be made redundant.
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CommentThe vital lifeline of home improvement agencies
Home improvement agencies save money and make lives better, as Paul Smith explains
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CommentSpending review provides breathing space for the NHS
Financial relief for a hard-pressed NHS
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CommentThe spending review: what does it mean for health and care?
Richard Murray offers an assessment of where the comprehensive spending review leaves health and social care
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CommentWe can't sit back and wait for change
NHS leaders need to take greater ownership of day to day workforce management in their organisations if the health service is to grasp the tough challenges ahead
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CommentThe £3.8bn must be used for transforming the NHS, not plugging holes
Frontloading of funding is welcome, but there are questions hanging over how we meet the strategic vision set out in the Five Year Forward View