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CommentFailure to engage junior doctors will deprive the NHS of future leaders
Engaging the trainee medical workforce in management roles represents a significant challenge, yet one that is essential to the future of the NHS. By Tim Robbins and colleagues
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CommentWhy centralisation might not be the best option for maternity services
Centralisation is an effective move in the case of elective surgery – but is it such a good idea when it comes to maternity and emergency services? David Walker and Anne Garden ask
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CommentNew legislation must take financial pressures into account
Sarah Brooke emphasises that legislation to guide the NHS has so far not served its purpose to provide autonomy to health bodies
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CommentCrisis care in London is coming back from the brink
Greater collaboration is transforming London’s beleaguered urgent health services, to the benefit of people in mental distress
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CommentGeneral practice as we know it is disappearing before our eyes
The alleged crisis in GP recruitment is a red herring - the bigger issue is the need for commissioning to undergo major change
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CommentHow the new vanguards are empowering patients and communities
Putting patient involvement at the core of healthcare
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CommentMaking improvement accessible to all
Why upcoming initiatives to improve healthcare could just succeed
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CommentDevolution and health reforms must move forward together
Why reformers must collaborate if they are to succeed
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CommentDoes the NHS still reside in a grey area for EU competition law?
To what extent does EU competition law apply to the NHS, given a changing landscape shaped by the TTIP, a government keen to ramp up private involvement and the spectre of a Brexit, asks David Hunter
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CommentSTPs must involve local people to avoid becoming expensive door stops
How to ensure that local people really do have their say in sustainability and transformation plans
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CommentWhat do housing allowance cuts mean for NHS finances?
We need new ways of funding services that offer the taxpayer value
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CommentWhat the NHS can learn from the nuclear industry
The nuclear power sector has made leaps in safety that the health service would do well to adopt
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CommentAre hospital chains a sustainable NHS delivery model?
If the NHS is serious about getting behind hospital chains, then obstacles of resource, regulation and commissioning need to be addressed, writes Ian Baxter
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CommentLord Carter: improved medicines management is key to achieving the vision
Lord Carter has thrown down the gauntlet to pharmacy departments
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CommentSustainability and transformation plans: an opportunity to see the wood for the trees
STPs are the first time the NHS has got serious about populations, rather than organisations
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CommentWe must be brave and tackle the workforce tiger
We need a bigger vision if we are to survive the workforce storm that is rumbling around us
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CommentA 15 Year Forward View can lead to transformation in the NHS
Jessica Studert on how a Fifteen Year Forward View needs to be in place to move from crisis intervention to preventative models
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CommentVideo: 'My job as health secretary is to do the right thing for the NHS, however difficult'
HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.
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CommentVideo: The NHS 'should offer the safest, highest quality care anywhere in the world'
HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.
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Video: 'To say that austerity is self-imposed is to assume that money grows from trees'
HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.