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CommentCowper’s Cut: Does ‘Appless ‘Ancock’s shrilling contravene the Ministerial Code?
Andy Cowper on the health and social care secretary endorsing an individual player in the online GP consultations market on multiple occasions
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CommentThe Bedpan: Wollaston to the rescue
This week: Part two of our in-depth interview with Dr Sarah Wollaston, focusing on her role as the chair of the Commons health and social care committee. Part one is here.
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CommentCompassionate leadership is not optional
Suzie Bailey gives her response to Matt Hancock’s comments on the right leadership culture in the NHS
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CommentTelephone reminder programmes facilitate cancer screening
Zoraida Colorado on how a telephone outreach service is leading to measurable improvements to cancer screening rates in London
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CommentIt’s time to stop papering over the cracks when it comes to workforce
The number of people living with cancer is growing and we need a costed plan to sustain and grow the NHS workforce, argues Fran Woodard.
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CommentLearning from deaths is essential
It is vital that organisations continuously learn from all patients that they care for, not just those where issues are identified that trigger investigations. By Dr Elena Baker-Glenn
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Brownian Motion and Johnsonian home economics
With the re-announcement of money for the NHS, the health service faces a very real risk of raised expectations and a budget increase too low to deliver on them. By Andy Cowper
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CommentThe Bedpan: Still rattling cages
This week: Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP for Totnes and chair of the Commons health committee
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CommentChild and adolescent mental health services: A case study in confused priorities
An audit of child and adolescent crisis admissions via A&E to CAMHS beds has identified problems that are symptomatic of the wider challenges facing mental health services, say Dr Daniel Poulter, Dr Ben Baig, Molly Cooney and Dr Sarah Cornick
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CommentNext year’s planning guidance is an opportunity to reset the NHS
Chris Hopson outlines what is needed from next year’s planning guidance to ensure the NHS is able to break out of the current cycle and start recovering financial and operational performance
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CommentLeading integrated care systems: from heroic to humble leadership
Paul Burstow outlines the essentials for ICS leaders to move from “paying lip service” to making integration the new business as usual
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
The ongoing Brexit muddle seems like the rerun of another law, the Health and Social Care Act 2012, being passed with a proposed aim but failing to materialise in any worthwhile form, says Andy Cowper
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CommentThe Bedpan: Financially illiterate and morally wrong
This week: Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree
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CommentLong-term plan should grant greater local freedom to ICSs and STPs
With the long-term plan imminent, Niall Dickson discusses the challenges facing STPs/ICSs and ways to address them, especially through increased freedom for local systems
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CommentWorkforce shortages are a greater challenge to the NHS than funding
Lack of skilled staff is already impacting access and quality of care, and without a shift in workforce policy the situation will worsen over the next decade, warn Anita Charlesworth, Candace Imison and Richard Murray
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CommentCQC: Prosecutions will be rare but help learning and safety
Chief executive of the Care Quality Commission Ian Trenholm explains the work the regulator is doing to explore potential prosecutions against NHS trusts and how the regulator is seeking to ensure lessons can be learned to drive systemic change.
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CommentThe prevention agenda can tackle devastating diseases
The health and social care secretary’s prevention vision could, if given the backing it needs, really change the odds for people affected by heart and circulatory disease. By Simon Gillespie
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Health policy and politics – caffeinated or decaffeinated?
Andy Cowper discusses Brexit and what the two political parties think on health policy
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CommentThe Bedpan: Let them eat pizza
This week: John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance
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CommentWaiting times steady as admission rates recover
Waiting times didn’t get significantly worse in September, and some indicators improved. But it’s still going to be tough to stop the waiting list from growing this financial year. By Rob Findlay