Comment archive – Page 88
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CommentPublishing an integration white paper smacks of desperation
There seems to be a moratorium on meaningfully investing long-term and in a strategic way in the things that will make the biggest difference: workforce, team capacity, culture change. By Charlotte Augst, chief executive of National Voices
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: How to help social care
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Primer: Back to the noughties
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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CommentI know what dodgy policy looks like and the integration white paper fits that bill
The problem with the new white paper on integration is that the way it thinks change happens is pretty much the same as past attempts, writes Richard Taunt
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CommentHow the Health and Care Bill can help the homeless and socially excluded
The new structures and duties proposed in the Bill, to integrate services around patient’s needs and across organisational boundaries present the opportunity for a step-change in our collective responses to the most excluded, writes Alex Bax
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CommentWhat does a 'Place' lead do?
The value of place-based working importantly strengthens the role of local democracy, elected members and accountability to residents, writes Jo Webster
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CommentFocusing on answers, not questions, on a ‘journey to outstanding’
A big week for the Blithering health economy, with a raft of policy announcements and exciting new acronyms. Julian Patterson reports from the scene
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Power to the SAPs
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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CommentWaits for diagnosis and decision rise to over 38 weeks
Many urgent conditions are only picked up at diagnosis, making such long waits risky. By Rob Findlay
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CommentWill the desire for political grip trump the government's integration ambitions
The integration white paper marks a significant attempt to start to push the policy pendulum back towards local places; closer to patients and where care is delivered, writes Richard Sloggett
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Same chair everywhere
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Clinicians take aim at remote appointment targets
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 content editor Hayley Kirton.
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Expert BriefingThe Primer: Levelling up?
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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Comment'Shape up or ship out' message was motivation, claims chair
Chair and chief executive who presided over a ‘culture of name-calling’ promise to learn the lessons of the past, writes Julian Patterson
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LeaderSorry, not sorry
The non-apology has arrived to squat on British public discourse like a particularly ugly and unwanted toad.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: ‘Four hundred people were approached to lead our ICS… just one was credible’
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 ...
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The secret to boosting team morale
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter will track prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentWould putting GPs under the command of hospitals work?
The pitfall of trying to design a ‘one size fits all’ model of primary care should be avoided, write Robert Ede and Sean Phillips
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CommentStop squandering the skills of NHS analysts
The NHS has an army of expert analysts – but their ability is being squandered on day to day pressures. Peter Spilsbury calls for a change in culture.
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LeaderThe U-turn on covid vaccination will leave a toxic legacy of mistrust
‘We’ve broken the social contract between the NHS and its people’. That was the blunt conclusion of one senior NHS figure surveying the aftermath of the government’s U-turn on the mandatory vaccination of staff.