Comment archive – Page 29
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: A reason for optimism about the waiting list?
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentTackling the postcode lottery of intermediate care
To address the ongoing issue of delayed patient discharges in hospitals and ensure prompt patient discharges, collaboration between trusts and system partners is crucial, as well as governmental support and financial commitment, explains Hannah Hayes
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CommentThe biggest risk AI poses to the NHS is failing to harness its benefits
AI has the capacity to tackle major issues that the NHS is confronting, but there are still unknown dangers associated with it, making a strong case for regulatory oversight, writes Luke O’Shea
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CommentThe poor are still waiting longer for NHS care
Disaggregating waiting lists with the use of data will result in more meaningful and purpose-driven metrics, giving targeted solutions for elective recovery, writes Danielle Jefferies, senior analyst at The King’s Fund.
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CommentNeeded: a radical change in how Alzheimer's is diagnosed and treated
Fiona Carragher discusses barriers such as rurality, deprivation, and ethnicity that must be addressed to improve dementia diagnosis rates and open the door to new breakthrough treatments
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: What now for The Christie?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHSE primary care plan is better than you think
Steve Black analyses the recently released NHSE plan to improve primary care, what is missing in the report and which significant initiative the media and GPs failed to highlight
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CommentIndividual-level interventions can effectively reduce work-related stress
There is a need for more studies on interventions addressing work-related risk factors both at the individual and organisational level, writes Sietske Tamminga
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CommentHopson: covid proved charities are 'key strategic partners' for the NHS
NHS England chief strategy officer Chris Hopson urges new approach to partnership working with charities.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: When patient care becomes a ‘luxury’
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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CommentLack of talent no bar to a successful NHS career
Sir Trevor Longstay has been doing his bit to inspire the next generation of leaders. Julian Patterson reports from Sir Trevor’s alma mater
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The forbidden provisions
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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CommentStrikes contribute to slowing elective admissions and discharges
Achieving the next targets will need a more sophisticated approach than targeting cohorts of long waiters
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CommentThe five steps needed to make NHS Impact successful
Penny Pereira and Malte Gerhold discuss the five guiding principles that will aid providers, ICSs, and national officials in implementing NHS Impact to ensure that it does not fall short like earlier national reform programmes
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: ‘Culture of impunity’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Farewell Ferris
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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Expert BriefingImpatient: When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled
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 new monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Focus, not collaboration, is the key to good strategy
Mirroring the concentration of a homeopathic medicine, NHS strategy lacks a good analysis-driven identification of problems and has a long list of ‘focus’ areas that wants to please everyone, writes Steve Black
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CommentThe deep trauma caused by the pandemic still afflicts NHS staff and patients
As the NHS tries to recover from the impact of the pandemic, the trauma experienced by frontline workers and NHS staff will require collaboration, compassion and trust to overcome, writes former NHS England deputy chief executive Matthew Swindells
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CommentHow a naked Chris Ham inspired my conversion to PHM
Dr David Rummage, emeritus professor of digital healthcare and metaverse studies at the University of Blithering, argues that we ignore population health management systems at our peril. Interview by Julian Patterson