All Comment articles – Page 133
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CommentMaintain the digital dignity balance for older people
Assuming that the older generation cannot use technology for their wellness is detrimental to empowering them with the digital. By Julia Manning
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CommentBuilding resilience: can we afford not to?
We need to ensure that the NHS spends every penny as well as it could
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CommentSeeking the heat: junior doctors must take affirmative leadership action
We must produce a more equitable and universal approach to developing leadership talent, writes Dr Alex Till
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CommentTaking staff on a journey
A new year’s resolution for every leader who wants to achieve financial balance in 2016? Actually listen to your staff. By Peter Thomond
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CommentMoves to rescue the DH's bottom line look increasingly desperate
As the NHS approaches the end of one of the toughest years in its history, the Deparment of Health is going to desperate measures not to bust its budget, writes Crispin Dowler
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CommentThe route to paperless must be steered by boards
In the latest HSJ Progress to Paperless survey, 19 out of 24 senior leaders said they believe Jeremy Hunt’s target for a paperless NHS by 2018 is a great ambition but the target is unrealistic.
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CommentUnhealthy Lazarus and the A&E crisis
Richard Cookson on why hospital managers should pay more attention to local healthcare inequalities
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CommentChoose and Consult over Choose and Book
Choose and Book needs to be radically reformed to become a modern Choose and Consult service so that the inefficient divide between specialists and GPs is done away with. By Martin Roland and Sam Everington
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CommentTaking the workforce challenge early on
Can we set the tone early in 2016 for the health service to tackle its workforce challenges
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CommentThe truth about the doctors' dispute
Public opinion has so far has been sympathetic to junior doctors, but these shallow sentiments could easily switch
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CommentExpert view: Leaked safe staffing guideline demands action from the NHS
HSJ’s patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern argues that NICE’s leaked accident and emergency recommendations mean providers must take action.
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CommentCapitalising talent: Plan for action on gender equality
Every January we all start out with renewed vigour to meet our New Year’s resolutions. Then we encounter the main problem – implementation. Penny Newman Penny Newman This is true of NHS change projects too: so many good intentions, discussions, research and papers, but implementation is often ...
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CommentHow will services access the new Sustainability and Transformation Fund?
The Sustainability and Transformation Fund bears closer scrutiny and comes with a sting in the tail
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CommentWhy patient engagement might have prevented the doctors strike
Consulting the public could have averted the current conflict
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CommentHealthier Together and the lessons of the big bad wolf
The three little pigs has echoes in the High Court judgment that should be heeded
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CommentMoney's too tight to mention
But there is much we can to improve care, even in this cold financial climate
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CommentA strategy's for life, not just Christmas
Turn over a new leaf in 2016 and embrace strategies as the means to achieving changes
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CommentWords: mightier than swords and deadly when misused in labels
Mislabelling can cost lives so it’s high time we made improvements that can prevent it
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CommentEnd Game: A saucer of milk for the minister
End Game brings to you the serious nature of herbal products and a dash of pop
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CommentEngland still (probably) breaching 18 weeks
The 18 week target was narrowly breached again in November