Comment archive – Page 69
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Moving goalposts, shelving buildings and reviewing priorities
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Fabrication news — DHSC to oversee Stonehenge ‘new build’
Building on its success with the new hospitals programme, the Department of Health and Social Care turns to overhauling some more of England’s ageing estate.
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CommentTo boost diversity NHS leaders need to first understand their own biases
A new report outlines eight key principles drawn from research that can help NHS leaders promote equality, diversity and inclusion in their organisations, writes Roger Kline
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: NHS England’s promise on inequalities data is well overdue
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 staffing and equalities correspondent Nick Kituno.
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CommentUp the game on diagnostics for greater cancer survival
Community diagnostic hubs would prove critical in advancing rapid diagnostic pathways for people with suspected cancer, bringing key diagnostic services together into community settings and closer to patients. By Michelle Mitchell
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Will the new funding package spell the end of parity?
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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CommentWhy preparing for the worst kept our patients and staff safe during the pandemic
Michele Moran shares her experience of dealing with staff health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic, and how her own experiences shaped the introduction of new safety initiatives that completely transformed care during these challenging times
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: ‘Reasonable grounds’ for disciplinary investigation against trust chiefs over bullying
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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CommentService specialisation and digital technologies can offer real patient improvements
Carl Shoben and John Underwood write about a new poll on the NHS which points out the public’s top two priorities are tackling the waiting lists that have built up during covid and greater investment in the health service
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Inspections slated, juniors quizzed and social care disappointed
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentUK’s emergency response to the covid-19 pandemic
The experience of rapidly accelerating research on how to treat and prevent covid-19, in the RAPID C-19 initiative, explained by Nwamaka Umeweni, Hywel Williams, Anthony Kessel and Anna Brett
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CommentThe media must support, not criticise, GPs
Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, argues that coverage of concerns about remote GP appointments is undermining confidence, while many patients are being assessed effectively and safely.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The cost of a system leader
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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CommentWaiting list soars past 5.6 million patients
The waiting list continues to grow rapidly as demand mostly recovers but activity cannot. By Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Forgetting the war that’s still happening
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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CommentUnpaid carers’ rights are overlooked in hospital discharge
The discharge to assess model, rapidly extended during covid and still in place, has in many cases failed family members looking after loved ones at home, omitting carers from the discharge process, says Helen Walker of Carers UK.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Power to the ICS
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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CommentLetter from Scotland: Making Scotland’s NHS 10pc better
In his regular dispatch from north of the border, Henry Anderson discusses the aim to remobilise the health service as quickly as possible over the next five years
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Coming back from crisis
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.