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CommentGP hours and the much needed tech-care revolution
With research showing that the average GP works less than three and a half days a week, Sinead Mac Manus discusses how technology, especially AI, can play an important enabling role in freeing up GPs’ time
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The great Dame Julie Moore retires
Andy Cowper reflects on the leadership and management skills of Dame Julie Moore, who has just retired as chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham FT
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CommentProviding consistent and humane end of life care
Ian Greenwood recounts the traumatic experiences of his late father to highlight NHS clinical inefficiency and inconsistent care and the importance of communicating end of life care plans
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CommentRunning to stand still
In light of the extra £20.5bn NHS funding, Anita Charlesworth outlines the various cost pressures that will likely consume most of the extra funding before improvements in quality and access can materialise
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Primary colours
Andy Cowper notes that most of the problems affecting the NHS are as much about the absence of well functioning relationships as they are about the lack of data
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CommentUnanswered questions for the future of STPs
With the impending launch of a new 10 year plan for the NHS, Miriam Deakin reflects on five key questions facing national policy makers about system working
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CommentIntegrated care – the new contract is a good start, but more is needed
With the 10 year plan imminent, the new Integrated Care Provider contract should be seen as a fillip for those looking to develop new approaches for better population health and care. By Richard Lewis
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CommentOne year waiters up 13 pc in June
The rise in one year waiters has accelerated, with most of these ultra long waiters highly concentrated in a small number of providers, warns Rob Findlay
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Comment‘Kangaroo courts’ shame the NHS
Equivocal measures of the NHS to deal with workforce whistleblowers need to be overhauled and replaced with processes based on simple principles of fairness. By Narinder Kapur
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CommentWhy the NHS’s 10 year plan must grasp the nettle of plural provision within integrated care systems
The NHS needs to be open towards plurality, preserving benefits of a diverse range of independent providers. By David Hare and Jo Pritchard
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CommentBigger step-change is need of the hour for children's mental health
It will take vision, hard work, political bravery, and realistic investment to make progress amidst children’s mental health crisis, writes Sean Duggan
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The silly season
Andy Cowper muses on the solstice of silliness in the world of health policy and politics
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CommentWhat if M&S was run like the NHS?
There is a need for solutions based on a full understanding of the reasons behind the variation and complexity in service delivery, writes Alastair Beattie
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CommentRash cuts in the community could undermine the long term NHS plan
Community services, primary care and social care must be at the heart of any long term plan for the health service, otherwise we risk piling even more pressure on hospitals and failing patients, their families and local communities, argues Matthew Winn.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A system problem
Andy Cowper acknowledges that NHS management is hard and the political environment is insufficiently multipolar.
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CommentDementia is conspicuously absent from new NHS priorities
The government must put dementia at the heart of its priorities, not in 10 years’ time, but now. By Hilary Evans
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CommentCowper’s Cut: ‘But they’re privatising the NHS!’
Andy Cowper on why the NHS is not being privatised and the consequences of a culture of deliberately incentivising lying
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CommentPatient groups' united ask from the long term NHS plan
With the NHS 10 year long term plan in the making, Jeremy Taylor outlines the recommendations of a wide range of leaders in the voluntary sector to improve health and care.
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CommentMore money, not yet enough people: it’s time to get creative
Thinking differently about how we engage our workforce is key to addressing some of the major obstacles we’re facing in cancer care, writes Jane Maher
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CommentLeadership vacancies in the NHS
An upcoming report has found that the role of leaders is changing as we move towards integrated care with significant efforts needed to build a pipeline of leaders, say Saffron Cordery and Suzie Bailey