Comment archive – Page 63
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Expert BriefingImpatient: We can feel like imposters
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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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Staff survey reveals a county of contrast
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: How not to pay for NHS pay rises
One of the most persistent problems in the NHS is that budgets for long-term improvement are regularly raided to cover short-term problems, writes Steve Black.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Under ‘extreme pressure’ with a ‘significant workload’
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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CommentHow why matters
The leadership team at NHS Blithering is never far behind NHS England when it comes to management tools. Julian Patterson has the latest from the world of transformation
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CommentThe ICS role in ending the lung health lottery
New research from Asthma + Lung UK lays bare the stark inequalities facing people with lung conditions. Sarah MacFadyen, head of policy and external affairs at the leading lung health charity, explores whether new ICSs could help level up the nation’s lung health
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CommentShadow boards can help address the challenge of leadership diversity
Elliot Howard-Jones, shares his views about why a Shadow Board was created, bringing together staff from a range of different ethnic backgrounds
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The RCN makes (another) break for it
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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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Grey area’ over key A&E target
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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CommentThe gaping hole in respiratory care
Spirometry is an essential test used to diagnose lung conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It was paused during the pandemic due to infection fears, but needs to be urgently resumed, says Carol Stonham MBE, co-chair of the Taskforce for Lung Health’s diagnosis working group
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CommentDivide and rule on NHS pay would be disastrous
The government’s proposed settlement to resolve the current wave of industrial action sows the seeds of some incredibly difficult and possibly decisive changes to NHS pay in the future, write Anita Charlesworth and James Buchan
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Magna Carta to ‘mandated support’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS needs a productivity plan, not a workforce one
The second in a new weekly column by commentator Steve Black. Historic workforce plans have ignored productivity. Most discussion seems to assume that the plan must demand far more clinical staff to drive up NHS activity while ignoring other factors
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CommentNHS staff told to comply with new ‘Lineker laws’
Medics and managers unite against proposed rules that could stop them looking clever, compassionate and fabulous on social media. Julian Patterson reports
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Not the Hewitt review
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 BriefingThe Download: Intervention on the waiting list
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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CommentSeven ways to improve NHS care while also saving money
The National Institute for Health and Care Research recently revealed seven ways the NHS can both improve care and save money. Dr Jemma Kwint, NIHR Senior Research Fellow and lead author of the report, explains.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS leadership needs to stop thinking like the Russian army
Introducing a new weekly column by commentator Steve Black. In a single day the NHSE director of strategy claims that the system wants more autonomy for ICBs while defending strategic decisions that strip them of any capacity to be autonomous.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The evolving future of patient safety
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.