Comment archive – Page 224
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CommentHow evidence-informed health can tackle the supply and demand gap
The three ingredients which can ensure that evidence – with all its money-saving potential – is incorporated into NHS practice
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CommentHere are your referral to treatment trajectories for the next two years
The waiting time guru runs the published RTT data through a planning model and produces detailed trajectories for trusts and specialties across England
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LeaderUpdated: What Jeremy Hunt really thinks about NHS managers
There is a rule that all good journalists should abide by: if you get something wrong, correct and apologise, and do it quickly.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Chancellor has NHS managers in his sights
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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CommentNo jam today, and no jam tomorrow either
Policy ambition and public funding don’t add up in either the short or long term – and the result spells long-term economic trouble
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: 'Left to die alone'
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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CommentHow Brexit and the US election could be impacting your IT budgets
It is a good time to ensure great value for money for the products and services you need, to support your organisation deliver great patient care
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CommentThis is how we get the measure of patient safety
We must continue seeking the most effective set of indicators if we are to obtain a more accurate picture of patient safety, writes Lord Ara Darzi
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CommentA simple idea that could breathe new life into clinical leadership
A collaboration between the NHS Leadership Academy and undergraduate clinical education providers could stimulate an interest in – and capability for – this neglected area, says Ali Raza
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LeaderNHS funding is becoming a game of chicken
Many in the NHS believe that a bailout is just one or two scandals away – it is a dangerous assumption
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catchup: Celebrating the HSJ Awards, and Google's and game changing deal
Your essential update on the week in health
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CommentAll is well with social care – and that's a post-truth fact
Social care was ignored in this week’s autumn statement, but the government would do better to invest today than bail it out of a crisis tomorrow
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CommentTracking the care journey holds the key to a better life
By linking disabled facilities grants activity and social care data, home adaptations can delay entry into residential care
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CommentPlotting? Scheming? The reality behind the scenes at an STP
What takes place behind closed doors has more to do with negotiation and details of principle than the scheming sometimes imagined by the public
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CommentThe three actions that are essential to prevent NHS collapse
These steps are essential if the NHS is to belatedly design services around the needs of the modern UK population
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Expert BriefingHSJ Awards 2016: Primary care innovation
HSJ Awards 2016: Primary care innovation Optum Sponsored by Optum Portsmouth Hospitals Trust with Wessex AHSN - Mission: asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease projects The trust designed the Mission projects to identify patients on GP registers at risk of asthma, and then ...
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LeaderBelief in the NHS is the one thing that remains united about the UK
This is an edited version of the opening speech made by editor Alastair McLellan at the 2016 HSJ Awards
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CommentThe chancellor's autumn statement must heed social care's SOS
The chief executives of the Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust and King’s Fund call for the chancellor to provide funding to deal with immediate pressures in the sector
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: A game of two halves
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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CommentNaylor: The three skills needed to be an NHS chief executive
Sir Robert Naylor’s retirement speech opens up on lessons he learned while serving as UCLH foundation trust chief executive for the past 16 years