Comment archive – Page 53
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The Download: A rare consensus
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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The Primer: From hero to zero
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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The Ward Round: Midwifery in crisis
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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Making virtue part of everyone’s job
A new unit will professionalise virtue-signalling and oversee a national humility strategy, reports Julian Patterson
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Underlying pressure still rising on elective waiting times
Although elective headline waiting times fell slightly in February, both the waiting list and the wait to diagnosis went up, writes Rob Findlay
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How bad is burnout in the NHS?
For the first time, the 2021 NHS Staff Survey included a set of questions specifically designed to measure workplace burnout and the results are revealing, writes Chris Graham, chief executive of Picker Institute Europe
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Recovery Watch: The great follow-ups revolution
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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Mental Health Matters: Thorn in the flesh
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence. Mental Health Matters is written by HSJ’s new mental health correspondent, Emily Townsend. Tell her what you think, or about issues she could write about, by emailing her in confidence at ...
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Make local NHS charities your allies in the push for service recovery
The NHS and health voluntary sector should unite to provide the extra support that staff and the health service need as they recover from the impact of the pandemic, writes Ellie Orton
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North by North West: Christie rebuffs NHSE and refuses to apologise
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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The Integrator: The inequalities challenge laid bare
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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Speaking truth to Twitter: A brief guide to leaderism
Leaders are a dying breed, but the ever-resourceful NHS has come up with a plan to replace them. We’re all leaderists now, writes Julian Patterson
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Leader
This Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS
Two years ago the first wave of the covid pandemic reached its peak. The NHS had reacted with impressive speed to prepare for an influx of patients with an infectious disease that few knew much about, had no cure for, and for which there was no known vaccine.
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What do health inequalities mean for trust leaders?
While health inequalities are not a new product of the pandemic, Leanora Volpe explains how covid-19’s impact on marginalised communities has given impetus to a coordinated, united effort to narrow the gap in access to, experience of, and outcomes from healthcare services, and what trust leadership’s role is in this.
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‘Get your team back to the frontline’: an open letter to the new NHSE chair
In an open letter to NHS England chair Richard Meddings, Sir Sam Everington outlines tips to improve the performance of the NHS
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Why the capital's NHS staff are, relatively, happy
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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How the NHS can help tackle the UK’s skills gap
The skills gap in the UK is widening, affecting more than just recruitment. However, University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Trust has found T Levels to be an ideal tool in helping to tackle this issue, writes Ray Olive
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Expert Briefing
Creating the NHS’ biggest virtual outpatients department
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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Comment
The NHS is still not learning from past mistakes in maternity
In the light of the Ockenden report, James Titcombe and Nadine Montgomery share their stories of maternity care failings and what is not yet being done to prevent them happening again.
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The 'John Lewis' model can help save general practice
An employee ownership trusts model offered as a choice, could help stabilise an increasingly fragile general practice ecosystem, write Tim Harrison, James Morrow and Stefan Scholtes