Comment archive – Page 37
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The crisis of an understaffed NHS
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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CommentGovernment tells NHS managers: ‘Waste money and you’ll go to prison’
As the NHS plunges deeper into crisis, the government is taking firm action against those responsible, reports Julian Patterson
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CommentJust discharging more patients from hospital will not fix the NHS’s problems
Karen Middleton writes in response to the government’s announcement that it will buy beds in care homes
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: More NHS staff are quitting than ever before
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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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: NHSE steps up 78-week drive as March deadline looms
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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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Major change and challenges for 2023
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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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Your failing hospital
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentChanging who the NHS treats first will open a 'can of worms', but it is a debate we must have
We have, for too long, avoided opening the moral and ethical debates around equity of access to care. We must grasp this thorny debate and apply sophistication to how we tackle waiting lists if we really want to close the inequality gap instead of making a poor position even worse, ...
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CommentStaff on high alert over 'fake' health secretary
NHS staff urged to be vigilant as authorities warn about a spate of bogus officials, reports Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Discharge delays trigger ministerial phone calls
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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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Different dog, same bark
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A turning point for tech?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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LeaderThe year of the great distraction
That 2023 will be the fourth in a series of increasingly brutal years for the service will come as no surprise to HSJ readers.
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CommentOne million managers: some predictions for 2023
Here are the highlights for 2023, by Jon Restell, CEO of Managers in Partnership
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CommentThe 12 step programme for clinical transformation
An alternative look at the fate of most clinically-led transformation programmes. By a former national clinical lead.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Safety warnings raised amid strike action
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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Comment'Merry Christmas, you're fired'
The NHS Blithering board meets to celebrate another 12 months of integrated progress and to set out overarching ambitions for a system-wide 2023. Julian Patterson circulates the minutes
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CommentThe three lessons from history that can help the NHS cut the elective backlog
The King’s Fund published its study of strategies to tackle high waiting times in the past, which offers hope for bringing down the backlog. Shilpa Ross and Nicola Blythe highlight few factors from this research that would help the NHS meet the national average waiting time
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CommentCancer care needs the NHS to go beyond short-term fixes
Improvements in cancer care could not have been achieved without investment in research, and we need to look forward, just as our researchers do, to the future, writes Michelle Mitchell