Comment archive – Page 83
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The Great Resignation
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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CommentThree lessons for building our future hospitals
Creating human-centred spaces that work alongside health professionals can ensure they deliver the art of care as well as the science of treatment, writes Lord Ajay Kakkar
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The real reasons why two-year waiters have dipped
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: The profession at ‘high risk’ of being lost
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Leading ICS sits bottom of activity rankings
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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LeaderICSs face irrelevance unless the devolution frenzy is curbed
Integrated care systems face becoming lost in a jungle of Byzantine governance – and becoming irrelevant to current challenges – unless the current mantra of devolution and subsidiarity is curbed.
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CommentLost in time at an NHS imagineering session
As Blithering’s head of transformation plans a Big Conversation, Dr David Rummage uncovers devastating news of a rival scheme. Julian Patterson reports from the scene
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CommentMake publishing NHS workforce planning forecasts a legal duty
Despite workforce being the biggest challenge facing the health service, the Health and Care Bill provides no clarity on the numbers of staff this country needs, says Andrew Goddard
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Expert BriefingSky high hospital covid infections underline risk of IPC relaxation
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 correspondent Matt Discombe.
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Expert BriefingTough efficiency asks for ‘overfunded’ London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe money for the fight against covid is drying up
If the NHS is going to emerge from the next 12 months in robust shape, politicians and senior leaders need to make the hard choices and back managers who are facing some very tough decisions, says Jon Restell
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CommentUrgent focus needed on backlogs in children and young people’s services
We need a coordinated effort, funding and support to help community providers address backlogs of care across community services for children and young people, write Daniel Reynolds and Miriam Deakin
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Expert BriefingThe 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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Expert BriefingThe 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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Expert BriefingThe 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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CommentMaking 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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CommentUnderlying 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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CommentHow 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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Expert BriefingRecovery 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 ...