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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
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CommentWhat do health inequalities mean for trust leaders?
While health inequalities are not a new product of the pandemic, Leanora Volpe explains how covid-19’s impact on marginalised communities has given impetus to a coordinated, united effort to narrow the gap in access to, experience of, and outcomes from healthcare services, and what trust leadership’s role is in this.
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Comment‘Get your team back to the frontline’: an open letter to the new NHSE chair
In an open letter to NHS England chair Richard Meddings, Sir Sam Everington outlines tips to improve the performance of the NHS
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CommentHow the NHS can help tackle the UK’s skills gap
The skills gap in the UK is widening, affecting more than just recruitment. However, University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Trust has found T Levels to be an ideal tool in helping to tackle this issue, writes Ray Olive
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CommentThe NHS is still not learning from past mistakes in maternity
In the light of the Ockenden report, James Titcombe and Nadine Montgomery share their stories of maternity care failings and what is not yet being done to prevent them happening again.
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CommentThe 'John Lewis' model can help save general practice
An employee ownership trusts model offered as a choice, could help stabilise an increasingly fragile general practice ecosystem, write Tim Harrison, James Morrow and Stefan Scholtes
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CommentProgress on reducing smoking during pregnancy has stalled, here’s what must be done
Reducing the number of women who smoked during pregnancy was a priority area in the government’s 2017 Tobacco Control Plan but as the five-year deadline approaches, progress has stalled. Asthma + Lung UK’s CEO Sarah Woolnough says the government must redouble its efforts to ensure that every child gets a ...
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CommentTrusts must resolve tensions between local and regional priorities as reforms bite
Georgia Butterworth writes about place-based working and the ingredients for success
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CommentTents outside A&Es are a danger to patients’ health and dignity
Putting patients in tents outside hospitals is a completely unacceptable ‘solution’ to the ambulance handover problems and the funding would be far better spent on staff in the community, says Royal College of Emergency Medicine president Katherine Henderson.
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CommentThe NHS is still stuck in the sixties
Despite big changes in diseases, drugs, technologies and lifespan, NHS service delivery looks trapped in its 1948 aspic. Hard questions need asking about what the NHS is delivering, given its impact on the funding of other public services, writes Norman Warner