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CommentIndigestible and illegable: the sorry state of board safety reports
A report highlights that maternity and neonatal services are often regular agenda items at board meetings, but the quality and quantity of information that is presented and the subsequent discussion (or lack thereof) doesn’t lead to effective oversight, writes Georgia Stevenson
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CommentDiagnostic hubs are expensive and unnecessary
Forget capital-draining diagnostic hubs for eye care, sorting out proper IT connectivity between primary and secondary care is where real gains for patients (and the taxpayer) can be made, writes Adam Sampson
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CommentThe NHS needs to share power with the communities it serves
Brian Fisher elaborates how embracing community strengthening is the key to a sustainable and inclusive NHS, shifting from merely listening to empowering communities, improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities, and creating a brighter future for all
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CommentStop scaling and start investing in local ideas
Social investment can make the biggest difference in helping to fund innovative, customised solutions for healthcare, writes Katy Saunders
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CommentNHS tech needs to be about solving problems, not shiny solutions
We live in a fast-paced, digital age, and it is important that the NHS keeps up. Greater and improved use of technology can benefit the service by enabling the delivery of better quality and faster care to patients, as well as relieving pressures on leaders and their staff. Whilst there ...
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CommentAre you a victim of data bias?
Investing in professional analytics teams is vital to eliminate data bias in healthcare and address health inequalities, ensuring better decision-making and patient care, write co-authors Ruth Holland and Emma Wright
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CommentUnequal access to a dementia diagnosis must end
Fiona Carragher, Director of Research and Influencing at Alzheimer’s Society, discusses the importance of equal access to timely and accurate dementia diagnoses, and shares inspiring examples of effective system-wide collaborations that could level up dementia diagnoses for rural or deprived areas, as well as ethnic minority communities
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CommentHow to radically reduce your MSK waiting list in two days
Innovative ‘Community Appointment Days’ are transforming MSK services in Sussex, offering hope for reducing waiting lists, improving patient care, and supporting NHS staff, writes Sara Hazzard
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CommentLabour should prioritise value not price in NHS reforms
Lord Philip Hunt shares his insight on revolutionising NHS procurement by focussing on value-based healthcare, patient outcomes and cost efficiency
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CommentThe NHS is forgetting stroke survivors
To meet rising demand, enhance recovery, reduce costs, and ensure every survivor thrives, the UK needs equitable, personalized, and accessible life after stroke services
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CommentAn idiot with a laptop's solution to follow up appointments
Patient initiated follow up and remote clinical reviews show promise in alleviating capacity issues and ensuring timely care, with positive patient feedback and early intervention benefits
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CommentThe critical role of NHS finance directors in patient safety
There are challenging misconceptions about NHS finance directors that highlight their vital role in enhancing patient safety and healthcare value, writes Emma Knowles
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CommentThe four steps boards need to take to achieve net zero
To achieve a net-zero healthcare system, NHS boards must lead by example, engage clinical staff, highlight the benefits, and collaborate with existing initiatives while emphasising sustainability, write Chris Naylor, Hayley Pinto, and Nuala Hampson
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CommentAn analyst-shaped hole in the workforce plan
The long-term workforce plan highlights the critical role of data analysis and AI in healthcare but overlooks the existing and growing community of professional healthcare data analysts, writes AphA
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CommentThe staff wellbeing strategies that work
Zosia Walecka says that trusts are dedicated to improving staff morale and patient care through their emphasis on culture, evidence-based methods, resource allocation, stress management, and promoting equality and diversity
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CommentTough choices (mostly) on hold
The recent party conferences revealed shifts in public health policy and heightened rhetoric on industrial action in the UK, but they fall short of addressing critical healthcare challenges, writes Richard Sloggett
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CommentNeurosurgery waits surge as national elective list hits new high
Clinical risk on the waiting list continues to grow
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CommentWe should not tolerate the NHS's suboptimal cardiovascular care
Dr Matt Kearney challenges the longstanding NHS tolerance of suboptimal care that drives cardiovascular disease – and the potential use of routine GP data that would prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes in three years.
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CommentThe seven ways AI can help ease NHS workforce pressures
AI technologies hold significant promise for alleviating workforce pressures and improving healthcare across the NHS, with applications in clinical decision-making, imaging, digital pathology, remote care, administrative tasks, operational efficiency, and patient communication, writes Thomas Burden
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CommentWe must remember the lessons of the pandemic and prioritise lung health
A lack of funding for lung tests is leaving people with conditions like asthma and COPD at increased risk of being hospitalised this winter, a new report reveals. Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma + Lung UK, says lung disease must be treated with the same urgency as other health conditions