Comment archive – Page 42
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CommentNHS leaders must be curious about poverty
A new report from King’s Fund and the Centre for Progressive Policy highlights the stark truth of patients facing health inequalities and deprivation due to poverty. Toby Lewis urges ICP leaders to respond effectively
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Comment'Enough is enough': it's time for concerted action on poor maternity care
Sara Ledger emphasises the urgent need to improve maternity services across the country.
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CommentThe ancient art of passing the parcel
The NHS is not short of beds, it is short of ideas. Dr David Rummage, head of clinical innovation at NHS Blithering believes that innovation is the key to unleashing hospitals. Report by Julian Patterson
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CommentA new award to honour NHS nurse Amin Abdullah
With the guiding principle of bringing Gandhian values to healthcare, Narinder Kapur describes three recent healthcare award schemes he set up to enhance staff wellbeing and patient care.
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CommentHow our trust survived a terrorist attack
CEO Kathryn Thomson reflects on the devasting terrorist attack that targeted Liverpool Women’s Hospital last year, and how the trust overcame and learnt from the incident.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: National bodies must walk the walk on race
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce. This week’s edition is by workforce ...
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Debate over ‘sticking plaster’ A&E model
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 emergency care correspondent Matt Discombe
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CommentUnderfunded sexual health services are no longer sustainable
This year marks the five-year anniversary of when the HIV prevention drug, PrEP was made available for free. Danny Beales lists down actions the governmet must take to address the barriers in accessing PrEP for all communities
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CommentFailing to invest in rehabilitation will bring grave consequences for all
Based on her recent experience of visiting an enormous hospital, Karen Middleton stresses on how staff felt demoralised and patients in long waiting suffered from poor care
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CommentHow Healthwatch will help the NHS this winter
Community organisations rallied to help the NHS during the pandemic. With services facing another challenging winter, Louise Ansari, national director of Healthwatch England, explains how Healthwatch are planning to lend a hand again
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: New lows for ambulance handover crisis
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentHow co-production can keep up with the rapid pace of system change
Co-production is undoubtedly vital to the future of mental health services, but the challenge we face now is how to ensure that co-production and efforts to address systemic inequalities can keep pace with the rapid pace of system change, writes Sam Holmes
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CommentWhat people with lived experience can teach us
People with lived experience report feeling dismissed and diminished by attempts to include them, despite best efforts through legislation, policy, and a pioneering patient leadership movement, writes Rachel Matthews and Keymn Whervin
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CommentPrice hikes could devastate the nation’s lungs this winter
Sarah Woolnough, CEO at Asthma + Lung UK, urges the government to step up for people with lung conditions as millions of people risk being plunged into fuel poverty.
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CommentParkinson’s patients feel abandoned by the NHS policy makers
Sam Freeman Carney talks about the challenges that people with Parkinson’s face as a result of workforce shortages in the NHS.
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CommentTrans people have a right to the health services they need
Trans people are not the problem, but the way we are spoken about is something that needs serious change writes Tash Oakes-Monger
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CommentWhy the cost of living crisis is a catastrophe for people with MS
People with multiple sclerosis are at breaking point, and unless urgent action is taken we will soon be faced with a catastrophic health crisis, writes Nick Moberly
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CommentEnd-of-life care can unravel without digital systems that work
A recent analysis captures people’s voices on end-of-life electronic records, emphasising on how it should be a medium to communicate their health information and wishes across care settings. By Usha Grieve
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CommentThe NHS is failing to meet the healthcare needs of refugees
Kama Petruczenko emphasises on the need for system leaders to develop a deeper understanding of refugees’ complex experiences and the systemic barriers faced by them, leading to profound health inequalities