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CommentBiomedical engineering does not deserve a place in the shadows
Biomedical engineers bring great value to the NHS and it’s time we understood and appreciated their contribution, writes Helen Meese
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CommentThe real provider sector deficit is nearer £4bn than £3bn
We face a choice for 2018-19 and 2019-20 of investing more in the NHS in those years or reducing the service we provide to meet the budget available, Chris Hopson writes
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CommentHow vanguards are connecting people to non-medical sources of support
The new care model vanguards are already making great strides in supporting people by connecting them to non-medical help, Samantha Jones writes
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CommentHow NICE has been a 'terrible beauty'
The National Institute for Health and Care Exellence has been doing the balancing act despite sticking to its cost effective agenda, Nick Timmins writes
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CommentWhy we should value finance professionals
Non-clinical workers may not directly save lives, but they provide essential support to clinicians who do
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CommentPlanning a hospital for constant capacity - a worked example
Common sense is as important as planning when it comes to defeating expensive peaks and troughs of capacity
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CommentThe fault is not in tendering but in how the NHS goes about it
The collapse of UnitingCare is symptomatic of the NHS’s inexperience in tendering and a legacy of local contracting arguments
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CommentGeneral practice may have only five years to live
Government must give GPs the financial support and freedom to identify the local solutions they require
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CommentWaiting list has grown by more than 12pc year on year
Officially, England only just missed the 18 week target. Unofficially things were much worse because of non-reporting trusts. What is most worrying is that the waiting list has grown by over 12 per cent year on year, Rob Findlay explains.
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CommentThe NHS is finally taking patient safety seriously
Policy developments indicate the health service is belatedly moving in the right direction on keeping the public safe
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CommentWhy we must improve reporting rates of medical errors now
Innovative ways of reporting and analysing medical errors will go a long way to improving patient safety, writes Lord Ara Darzi
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CommentContract ceasefire would allow us to evaluate safety and funding
Phil Hammond suggests a way forward in the junior doctors’ dispute
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CommentThe NHS's overseas recruits need our help to succeed
The influx of EU doctors and nurses to plug NHS staffing gaps is doomed to failure without the right support
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CommentHow can we redevelop the NHS estate to achieve the best treatment?
A range of actors is needed to put surplus land to better use and help tackle NHS shortages of space and money
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CommentUnderstanding triple prevention and how to deliver it
NHS England senior fellow Dr Mahiben Maruthappu explores the five key strategies to delivering triple prevention
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CommentWhy the NHS could do with cruise control
By reducing variation, the NHS can keep up with demand with less capacity and consequently lower costs, writes Rob FIndlay
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CommentThe Carter report – can NHS procurement transformation be accelerated?
Trusts do not by and large possess all the skills required to deliver their share of the Carter savings, says Richard McIntosh
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CommentResilience is not enough
Resilience is needed to help overcome the situations that arise daily from patients and their needs, it shouldn’t be required for dealing with issues arising from within the organisation itself. Derek Mowbray writes
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CommentCare and support planning: the role of voluntary, community and social enterprise
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society’s Phil Baker outlines the importance of VCSEs in the development of care planning
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CommentJim Mackey must sweep away public and staff engagement inertia
Nick Goodman on how NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey must make people engagement a top priority