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CommentA nationally-endorsed vision that defines integrated primary care services
In view of Dr Claire Fuller’s recently published stocktake on how primary care can work with ICSs, Toby Lewis reflects on the challenges and solutions to implement its recommendations
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CommentVolunteers are not a ‘nice to have’ for NHS services
It is time for a more strategic approach to identify areas where volunteers play a crucial role for NHS trusts, writes Helen Gilburt
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CommentThe NHS must be more ambitious in combating inequalities faced by disabled staff
As the country’s largest healthcare provider and employer, the NHS is uniquely positioned to play a central and pioneering role in tackling inequalities both for disabled patients and its disabled staff, writes Oliver Potter
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CommentThe NHS is lagging in the restoration of fertility services
The fertility sector is almost back to pre-pandemic treatment levels but Julia Chain warns of its aftershocks and urges action to keep patients’ dreams alive
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CommentHow providers are delivering on tackling backlogs
Trusts are implementing a wide range of innovative solutions to tackle the elective care backlog, as Ella Fuller explains
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CommentTighter reporting requirements could overwhelm hospitals
The medical regulator has issued new standards for doctors — Louella Vaughan argues
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CommentHow patients came to share power in the NHS
David Gilbert imagines a world in which those with lived experience of healthcare are given a central role in the planning of services and policy at local and national level.
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CommentThe forgotten staffing shortages in primary care
Malcolm Harrison writes about the main reasons for the growing shortage of community pharmacists and gives his take on how to avert the deepening crisis
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CommentIPC changes need to bite to stop surging elective lists
Two-year waits may be falling, but the underlying pressure on waiting times continued to grow, says Rob Findlay
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CommentWhat the NHS can learn from low-income countries
The NHS can learn from other healthcare organisations and systems of middle- and low-income countries as it forms its new local systems and tries to engage communities and partners more effectively. By Nigel Crisp
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CommentGetting a same-day GP appointment in the UK is relatively easy
A survey of around 19,000 adults over the age of 65 in 2021 asked about their health and care, including how the pandemic had affected their access to services in 11 countries. For the UK, the results are mixed.
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CommentA licence to act for progressive primary care leaders
The Stocktake report, set out to understand how leaders can support better primary care integration, highlights a number of key issues hoped to be addressed through it. By Matthew Taylor
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CommentWhat Javid’s imminent ‘digital health plan’ must include
Sajid Javid’s promised digital health and care plan will need to integrate the several digital commitments made in recent years, concentrate on implementation, infrastructure and maintenance, and identify past failures. By Pritesh Mistry
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CommentThree lessons for building our future hospitals
Creating human-centred spaces that work alongside health professionals can ensure they deliver the art of care as well as the science of treatment, writes Lord Ajay Kakkar
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CommentMake publishing NHS workforce planning forecasts a legal duty
Despite workforce being the biggest challenge facing the health service, the Health and Care Bill provides no clarity on the numbers of staff this country needs, says Andrew Goddard
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CommentThe money for the fight against covid is drying up
If the NHS is going to emerge from the next 12 months in robust shape, politicians and senior leaders need to make the hard choices and back managers who are facing some very tough decisions, says Jon Restell
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CommentUrgent focus needed on backlogs in children and young people’s services
We need a coordinated effort, funding and support to help community providers address backlogs of care across community services for children and young people, write Daniel Reynolds and Miriam Deakin
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CommentUnderlying pressure still rising on elective waiting times
Although elective headline waiting times fell slightly in February, both the waiting list and the wait to diagnosis went up, writes Rob Findlay
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CommentHow bad is burnout in the NHS?
For the first time, the 2021 NHS Staff Survey included a set of questions specifically designed to measure workplace burnout and the results are revealing, writes Chris Graham, chief executive of Picker Institute Europe
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CommentMake local NHS charities your allies in the push for service recovery
The NHS and health voluntary sector should unite to provide the extra support that staff and the health service need as they recover from the impact of the pandemic, writes Ellie Orton