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CommentPatient Safety Commissioner: 'We are heading straight back to Mid Staffs'
A seismic shift is needed in the way that patients’ and families’ voices are heard, with shared decision-making and patient partnership as the destination
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CommentWhen not to collaborate
The fashionable stance for any NHS strategy at the moment is to set out the highest number of partnerships possible to get involved in, at the risk of no collaboration properly adding value, writes Richard Taunt
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CommentMaking diamonds out of sausages
Data collection and storage is by no means an effortless automatic process; it can be expensive, complex, and bureaucratic, says Andi Orlowski
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CommentThe NHS can lead the UK’s green economy
With innovative treatments powered by renewable energy, and with digitally enabled services connecting us with patients wherever they are, we can grow the healthcare economy and high skill jobs using a fraction of the carbon, writes Luke O’Shea
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CommentWe must tackle bias and poor quality in NHS recording of ethnicity
Although coverage of ethnicity recording has improved over time, the quality of coding can be variable, poor, and shows evidence of systematic bias, writes Veena Raleigh
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CommentGetting integration to work: is it time to stop throwing policy at the problem?
Integration fails to succeed because working cultures in the NHS and social care haven’t changed to support collaboration, say Helen Buckingham and Sarah Reed.
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CommentAction needed as A&Es overflow with patients in severe dental distress
NHS England must encourage those with dental expertise to join local systems, including by assisting ICSs with recruitment, so that institutional commissioning knowledge and experience are not lost when commissioning responsibilities are transferred, writes Matthew Taylor.
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CommentA bleak picture for babies and young children
Institute of Health Visiting executive director Alison Morton warns national policy has developed a “baby blind spot” amid the NHS crisis, with many young children missing out on government’s promise of the “best start in life”, and calls for a shift towards prevention and early intervention
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CommentJust discharging more patients from hospital will not fix the NHS’s problems
Karen Middleton writes in response to the government’s announcement that it will buy beds in care homes
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CommentChanging who the NHS treats first will open a 'can of worms', but it is a debate we must have
We have, for too long, avoided opening the moral and ethical debates around equity of access to care. We must grasp this thorny debate and apply sophistication to how we tackle waiting lists if we really want to close the inequality gap instead of making a poor position even worse, ...
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CommentOne million managers: some predictions for 2023
Here are the highlights for 2023, by Jon Restell, CEO of Managers in Partnership
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CommentThe 12 step programme for clinical transformation
An alternative look at the fate of most clinically-led transformation programmes. By a former national clinical lead.
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CommentThe three lessons from history that can help the NHS cut the elective backlog
The King’s Fund published its study of strategies to tackle high waiting times in the past, which offers hope for bringing down the backlog. Shilpa Ross and Nicola Blythe highlight few factors from this research that would help the NHS meet the national average waiting time
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CommentCancer care needs the NHS to go beyond short-term fixes
Improvements in cancer care could not have been achieved without investment in research, and we need to look forward, just as our researchers do, to the future, writes Michelle Mitchell
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CommentHumanising healthcare for real
We know that change won’t come through traditional patient and public engagement, patient experience work or ‘better listening’, writes David Gilbert
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CommentHope from tragedy: time to prioritise those with learning disability and autism
The HEE expect some employers will choose to employ trainers and deliver new learning disability and autism training packages themselves, while others will find it advantageous to collaborate with other organisations, writes Mark Radford
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CommentConnecting NHS and care home leaders
The ninth and last in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. The authors describe a leadership support programme for care home leaders and, from there, to explore stronger integration between care homes and the ...
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CommentSocial care providers must have a say in ICS decisions
The eighth first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. ICSs provide a significant opportunity to do things differently and overcome some of those historical challenges by bringing together key partners to develop and ...
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CommentA day in the life of a social care CEO
The sixth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. We get a glimpse into a day in the life of CEO Dan Hayes as he runs through an average day on the job which ...