Comment archive – Page 62
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CommentLaunching an EPR during the pandemic
The NHS needs access to the right technology and our leaders need to be making the right technology decisions, highlights Dr Ayesha Rahim
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CommentA willingness to take risks is key to tackling the emergency care crisis
To reduce overall harm and risk from ambulance delays to patients across the system and not just those in one’s direct care, clinicians need to balance the risk and adapt their approach to decisions for patients and systems, writes Benjamin Owens
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LeaderWhat the rejection of ICS jobs by acute chiefs tells us
Cast your minds back five years. Sustainability and Transformation Plans are a relatively new thing and NHS England has announced the leaders for the new powers in the land.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Omicron in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Joint venture
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentHow digital technology is benefiting community health services
Community providers’ flexible, community-based model of service provision is well-suited to testing small-scale innovations in digital. By Andrew Ridley
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A damp squib
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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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Another test for NHS staff
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentCombating long covid will take a marathon effort
With over one million people thought to be suffering from long-term symptoms after a covid infection, the NHS needs funding for research into treatments and specialist staff so people with long covid can access the help they so desperately need, writes Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma UK and the British ...
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: The ‘magic Morecambe Bay’ facade
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Primer: New variant, familiar concerns
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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CommentPatient leadership: where are we now?
An open letter to Rosamund Snow and Michael Seres, by David Gilbert
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Avoiding strategy overload
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: A failure to keep trouble at Bay
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Longstay's dramatic return
Independent consultant to lead far-reaching leadership and IT review
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CommentHow to make sure good analysts really can 'save more lives than a good anaesthetist'
When I think of ‘good analysts’ I picture someone striving to ‘improve decision quality’ for system leaders. Such good analysts really can save lives, writes Andi Orlowski
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Frontline’s fairytale fatigue
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentPooling NHS and social care budgets needs more thought
In considering a big leap towards pooled budgets, ministers may trigger a huge revolution in structures whose cost in disruption and in political capital may never be repaid by results, argues Nigel Edwards.
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CommentWe won’t have genuine integration without inclusive integrated care boards
Without the integrated care boards, there is a real risk that we lose the benefits of integration and that we exclude the voice for innovative organisations, such as social enterprises, which are able to challenge the status quo, writes Jo Pritchard
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CommentCovid has been ‘devastating’ for lung cancer diagnosis
We need to act collectively and urgently to rebuild and recover from the consequences of the pandemic on lung cancer and get back on track to deliver a step change in lung cancer outcomes. By Professor Robert Rintoul