Comment archive – Page 95
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Pressures increase, ICBs appoint and bulldozers idle
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: The first wave rolls in
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentDeceased NHS staff called on to do their part
The government is planning to bring the dead out of retirement in an audacious bid to solve the workforce crisis, writes Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingUnions guilty of a ‘moral failure’ in poor support for staff with long covid
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 BriefingDaily Insight: Counting the cost
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentThe nation will have to live with ultra long waiting times while pressure persists
Ultra long waits will be difficult to solve until the NHS can keep up with demand. By Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘Hoping for six feet of snow to keep everyone at home’
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 BriefingDaily Insight: ‘From claps to slaps’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentThe Health and Care Bill must require action on health inequalities
Richard Murray calls for amending the Health and Care Bill to focus on health inequalities in its Triple Aim
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: He said, she said
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: social care reform proves challenging
The NHS proposals of the Scottish government has angered GPs and left managing bodies of community healthcare services grumbling, writes Henry Anderson
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Another troubling waiting list
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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Expert BriefingThe Primer: A new backlog tsar?
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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CommentRacial discrimination is present at all levels and all professions within the NHS
Understanding what is needed to turn the situation around after data from new research reveals, Black and minority ethnic staff are more than twice as likely to experience discrimination at work from a colleague
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CommentPritchard: honesty and ambition will mark my tenure as CEO
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the ‘honesty and ambition’ she hopes will define her tenure, and why she is concerned about how stretched services are even before winter begins.
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Leader‘This is far worse than January – the vaccine hasn’t saved us this time’
“We should all be rated inadequate.” The call HSJ received on Sunday lunchtime from one of the most respected chief executives in the NHS carried an air of desperation.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Hideous crimes could damage trust
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Gagging orders, chairs to fill and climates of fear
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Put your money on Goliath
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Government pledges to end shortage of NHS plans
No shortage of turkeys this Christmas as government steps up production of plans and policy documents