Comment archive – Page 38
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Invisible barriers
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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CommentHumanising healthcare for real
We know that change won’t come through traditional patient and public engagement, patient experience work or ‘better listening’, writes David Gilbert
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Accountants take back control
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentTop holiday gift ideas for NHS leaders
It’s the thought that counts, but if you can’t be bothered to give present buying any, here’s a list of Christmas gift ideas for the special measures person in your life. Selected by Julian Patterson
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CommentHope from tragedy: time to prioritise those with learning disability and autism
The HEE expect some employers will choose to employ trainers and deliver new learning disability and autism training packages themselves, while others will find it advantageous to collaborate with other organisations, writes Mark Radford
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CommentConnecting NHS and care home leaders
The ninth and last in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. The authors describe a leadership support programme for care home leaders and, from there, to explore stronger integration between care homes and the ...
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CommentSocial care providers must have a say in ICS decisions
The eighth first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. ICSs provide a significant opportunity to do things differently and overcome some of those historical challenges by bringing together key partners to develop and ...
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Freedom, or nothing left to lose
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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CommentA day in the life of a social care CEO
The sixth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. We get a glimpse into a day in the life of CEO Dan Hayes as he runs through an average day on the job which ...
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CommentThere is no shared vision for social care data
The seventh in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Adam Hunt, digital transformation lead at the National Care Forum shares his thoughts on how access to the right information can transform the health and ...
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Expert BriefingAmbulance strike is hospitals' nightmare before Christmas
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Comment'Trusted' NHS must bring R&D benefits to the disadvantaged
Realignment of R&D investment could generate a better return on R&D investment to UK plc by improving access to innovative medicines, reducing variations in health outcomes, reengaging people with the labour market, and improving healthy life expectancy, write Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard and James O’Shaughnessy.
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CommentNHS and social care need to learn from each other
The fifth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Former NHS manager Nichola Stefanou shares three main takeaway lessons from her experience of working across both health and social care
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CommentNHS leadership should be the role model for social care
The fourth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. The gulf between healthcare and social care is exemplified by the fact that social care is devolved to councils to administer says author Andrew Johnston
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Expert BriefingThe Download: How virtual outpatients saves lives
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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CommentSocial care staff must provide more healthcare
The third in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Chief nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, examines delegated healthcare in a post-pandemic world
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CommentHow to work with care providers to improve hospital discharge
The second in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Here’s a list of things to help social care providers step up and create a dependable discharge process that has people, not systems, at its ...
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Patient leadership, not partnership, is what the NHS needs
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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CommentICSs should prioritise not for profit social care
The first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Professor Rayner, a regular national and international speaker, shares her thoughts on why social care should be for people, not for profit
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CommentImproving the NHS’s relationship with the care sector
If there is one truth that all NHS leaders have come to understand during the last few years, it is that the service’s fate is irrevocably linked with that of the care sector.