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CommentThe Bedpan: The public are not idiots
This week: Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation
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CommentEngland's waiting list still too big
The waiting list should be shrinking at this time of year, but it isn’t. In better news, the number of one year waiters is coming down.
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CommentStreamlining procurement is not a pretext to exclude non-NHS providers
Procurement must be about identifying and securing the best possible services for patients, whether from NHS, independent sector, voluntary, or social enterprise providers. By David Hare
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CommentTranslating cancer care innovation into practice
Professor Christopher J Harrison, medical director of The Christie, explains how he and his colleagues made use of a network model to improve the experiences of cancer patients in the region.
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CommentRambling long-term plan fails to grip NHS’s problems
Adam Lent gives his views on the NHS long-term plan
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CommentLeadership development should be a lifelong seminar
Peter Homa captures leadership lessons he learnt in his nearly 40 years NHS leadership experience
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CommentMake equal partnerships with other sectors for the long-term plan to succeed
The long term plan has a wash of warm words about working with the voluntary and community sector but no definite intent to direct commissioning pounds that way, notes Don Redding
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A brief history of NHS plans
With the release of the 10 Year Forward View imminent, Andy Cowper reflects on the success of the various NHS plans published in the last two decades and what to expect from the 10YFV
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Primary care IT is not one of the big NHS problems. Why is ’Appless ’Ancock trying to solve it?
Andy Cowper explains why the DHSC’s latest push to overhaul IT in primary care does not make sense
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CommentCowper’s Cut: That warm feeling down your back? It’s not rain
Andy Cowper discusses the government’s recently released Brexit operational readiness guidance for the health and care system in England
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CommentThe best of The Bedpan 2018
HSJ expanded its comment section in October with the launch of The Bedpan, a Sunday morning fix for health policy junkies in the form of interviews by our editor Alastair McLellan.
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CommentWhat is needed from the long-term plan?
The NHS plan will set a direction of travel which looks set to create integrated care systems across England but there has been relatively little public debate over these bodies, notes Niall Dickson
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CommentWhere does the end of PFI leave PPP?
The longevity of models such as LIFT demonstrate that, done correctly, PPPs offer a flexible and sustainable environment for dynamic services, at a time when GPs are less inclined to buy into career long partnerships. By Chris Whitehouse
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CommentWe need a reset on the NHS’s haphazard approach to allocating capital funding
David Williams says the NHS’s process of allocating capital is indiscriminate and opaque with no obvious prioritisation for the type of work being funded
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CommentPersonalised care in both the NHS and social care must be the default position
Glen Garrod makes a case for implementing integrated personal budgets for patients with funding from health and social care to ensure an “integrated experience”
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Will the 10-year NHS plan give us magical realism or socialist realism?
With the publication of the NHS 10-Year Forward View postponed, Andy Cowper says the 10YFV could operate in two very different genres of realism
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CommentDriving forward system working: a tale of two systems
Providers and commissioners are coming forward to work together more strategically to deliver better outcomes for their local populations, say Dr Gordon Macmillan and Dr Chirag Bakhai
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CommentAmbitions to hold the waiting list steady this financial year are doomed
The waiting list isn’t shrinking much this autumn. So there is little chance of holding the waiting list steady in 2018-19, as the planning guidance intended. By Rob Findlay
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CommentMaking money ‘talk’ for integration, prevention and place-based care
A whole system approach to finance in health and social care must be used to allow a realigning of spending, and ensure the public purse is being used to provide the right services, in the right place, at the right time. By Eleanor Roy