Comment archive – Page 73
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CommentThe nation's love for the NHS is a blessing and a curse
We need to move spending and activity within our health system away from crisis provision and into communities, where health can be created, and not just managed, notes Jessica Studdert
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CommentNHS' role in tackling obesity
By investing in locally produced, sustainable foods, NHS organisations can invest in their local economy and shape their local food supply chains which could increase availability of healthier foods for the population. By Jonathon Holmes
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: One step forward, two steps back
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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CommentThe 37-week wait for diagnosis
A long wait for diagnosis means late detection of many cancers
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CommentDoes the buck stop with integrated care systems?
Miriam Deakin discusses the key policy documents that NHSE/I has published in recent weeks to help local health and care systems navigate the reforms which will make ICSs statutory bodies
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘It feels like no one has their hand on the tiller’
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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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: No safe space for mothers
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: The 'once for Scotland' recovery plan
In his regular dispatch from north of the border, Henry Anderson discusses the Scottish government’s ambitious plans to fast track the health service’s recovery with the help of a new organisation
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Changing Health Secretary may cause Saj effects
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Purchasing power, unanswered questions and steadier pensions
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How the ICS bill stalled at the 11th hour
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Matt Hancock’s tech legacy assessed
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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CommentICSs should focus on relationships as much as governance
Integrated care systems must combine the software of relationships with the hardware of governance, writes Sir Chris Ham
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CommentThe next NHS CEO will have much to learn from the diverse voices of the HSJ100 wildcards
The panel of judges who will choose the HSJ100 later this year were tasked with thinking about the voices that go unheard by the NHS establishment but from whom there is much to learn, writes David Hancock
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CommentThe 20 ‘wildcards’ the NHS’s new bosses should listen to
We’re on course for the two most directly powerful people in UK healthcare — health secretary and NHS England chief executive — to undergo a change in the space of five weeks. They could learn quickly and stay focused by getting out and speaking to our 20 ’wildcards’, chosen as ...
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CommentSajid Javid’s in-tray
Richard Sloggett shares his insights on the newest appointment of Sajid Javid as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Hancock goes and Javid shows
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Guardian quits, No.10 hires and successors jostle
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentWe need a more compelling vision for the NHS reforms than simply 'undoing Lansley'
With the forthcoming health bill set to be introduced to Parliament in the next few weeks, and more technical guidance on the reforms due from NHS England soon, there is limited time to set out a much needed for vision for the changes they will bring, by Richard Murray, Charlotte ...
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Hoping for another ‘Rashford moment’
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 performance, recovery and workforce correspondent Nick Kituno, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies ...