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The 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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The 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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An 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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The 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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Tough 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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Neurosurgery waits surge as national elective list hits new high
Clinical risk on the waiting list continues to grow
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We 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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The 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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We 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
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The crucial target that most NHS staff don’t know about
Achieving net zero emissions while delivering quality healthcare requires integrating environmental sustainability with core care priorities, engaging staff, and reshaping policies, write co-authors Luke McGeoch and Tom Hardie
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How paid 'lived experience partners' can enhance care
The Health Innovation Network transformed its approach by embedding strategic lived experience partners, enhancing co-production, and fostering meaningful community engagement, thus shaping healthcare projects and dismantling traditional power barriers
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As a doctor I don’t believe regulation of managers should be a priority
David Oliver expresses his five big doubts on the statutory regulation that is in place for NHS managers and examines the complex realities of accountability and performance in healthcare leadership
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The way ambulance trusts work has not always delivered, so we’re changing
London Ambulance Service Trust’s CEO Daniel Elkeles discusses the trust’s new five-year strategy and the three missions it aims to achieve
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Decision-making should be a science
Kate Cheema and Rony Arafin write about how professionalising healthcare analytics helps in unlocking the power of data for informed decision-making in the NHS which is a vital investment.
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Debt support should be integrated with healthcare services
Integrating mental health and debt advice services could improve recovery rates, cut waiting times, and save the NHS millions, writes Conor D’Arcy
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‘Old hands’ as well as ‘new blood’ are needed to lead the NHS
Why more NHS chief executives have been leaving, and why it matters, by trust CEO Paul Roberts.
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The benefits and limits of private sector involvement in the NHS
The NHS has never been anything other than a mixed economy argues Adam Sampson, chief executive of the Association of Optometrists – let’s forget the rhetoric and get on with the job of managing it properly
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The lesson from Letby is to listen
Now that the inquiry into Lucy Letby’s case has been given legal powers, it must explore how the NHS can tackle the culture of defensiveness, denial and secrecy that often lies at the heart of tragic scandals. Louise Ansari, chief executive of Healthwatch England, argues that the NHS has some ...
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Elective waiting list rises by 100,000 in July
The waiting list is still growing at more than 100,000 patients per month
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NHS must stop treating data analysis as a 'clerical' role
Recognising data analysts as vital technical experts, not clerical staff, is essential for the NHS’s data-driven future and improved patient care, writes Andrew Barraclough and Dr Marc Farr