Comment archive – Page 38
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CommentICBs will not improve collaboration if they also try to be performance managers
Sara Gariban describes three essentials to ensure trust leaders make system working a success and thus build efficient, resilient and responsive services
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Making staff feel valued is a patient safety imperative
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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CommentThe 'two minute' NHSE director and other stories from 2024
It’s that time when all newspapers fill space with new year predictions. Not to be outdone, Julian Patterson imagines the headlines you can look forward to in the next 12 months
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CommentThe NHS must become proactively 'anti-racist'
Amid rising awareness of racial health disparities, the authors examine healthcare organisations’ initiatives against racism, spotlighting efforts in diversity, leadership, and continual evaluation for enduring impact
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CommentHow Healthwatch helps the NHS engage with communities
As 2024 begins, Louise Ansari, CEO at Healthwatch England, highlights some of the projects that made a difference for patients last year while showing the vital role of local action. We need to hear more of such examples in the new year.
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CommentSickle cell should be classified as a long-term condition
The historic treatment of sickle cell patients is often cited as a prime example of the neglect shown towards the Black community, with patients often feeling misunderstood, stigmatised and ignored, writes Pippa Nightingale
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CommentGPs cannot avoid modernisation
GPs face overwhelming workloads, hindered by administrative burdens and inadequate resources. Collaborative digital transformation is imperative to ensure sustainable, patient-centric care and the survival of general practice, writes Jay Verma
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Let’s start the new year with a positive message about what the NHS can improve
Innovative surgical practices can significantly enhance NHS efficiency and productivity, but entrenched resistance and systemic challenges hinder widespread adoption. Overcoming obstacles is crucial for lasting improvement, writes Steve Black
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CommentIncreased CQC fees for ICBs threaten drive to improve care
To ensure system assessments add value and help improve care quality, the CQC should rethink the assessment process and consider two alternatives, writes Sarah Walter
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
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: Actually, we’ve coped well
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: 12-hour trolley waits an ‘acceptable compromise’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentLet local people decide on the public health measures the NHS should invest in
Jessica Studdert explains how community-driven health initiatives in deprived areas, funded by the Big Local programme, not only demonstrate significant preventive benefits but also reduce demand on NHS services.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS should stop asking for bailouts
What the NHS needs is not more winter bailouts but a more consistent and sustained plan to tackle its underlying problems, writes Steve Black
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CommentGive more prescribing and referral rights to those working in the community
Government action is crucial to enhancing primary and community care integration, and to addressing structural, funding, data sharing, and training challenges to deliver a patient-centric, sustainable health service, writes Baroness Pitkeathley
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CommentWaiting lists and times (probably) fall, at last
The falling waits for diagnosis and decision are especially welcome
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CommentYour Christmas gift problems solved
You’ve worked tirelessly every day until well into the late afternoon on collaboration, integration and improvement-style projects. Your ICB has recognised your commitment by giving you the whole of December off to go Christmas shopping. Before the CEO changes her mind to avert a PR disaster, what are you going ...
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CommentThe NHS is missing out on medtech benefits
The NHS could benefit from a surge of innovation if it’s given greater flexibility to adopt new technologies, writes Michael Watts
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CommentDying people are being failed by the NHS's approach to sharing information
Usha Grieve explains how in the realm of digital health data, the spotlight on the Federated Data Platform overshadows the sluggish progress in enhancing electronic end-of-life records, hindering meaningful patient-centric change and necessitating urgent action
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CommentNHS productivity – does ophthalmology have an answer?
David Hare writes how ophthalmology’s 15 per cent activity boost and reduced wait times exemplify NHS productivity, with the independent sector delivering 160 per cent more care, emphasising the potential for specialisation and patient flow improvements as vital lessons for broader health system gains