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CommentEnglish waiting times growth trebles
Since the incomplete pathways target was first met in 2012, English waiting times have been creeping up at about half a week per year. Now they’re growing three times faster
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CommentAcute lack of investment is starving healthcare estates
Buildings and infrastructure in the healthcare sector are suffering a serious shortage of cash and need new financing models to break the deadlock.
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How Johns Hopkins is boosting efficiency with control centres
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore worked with GE to develop a state-of-the-art, control centre to improve patient flow, patient scheduling and staff scheduling.
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CommentPFI contracts: stick or twist?
‘Buying out’ a PFI contract would be a nuclear option – the better solution would be to simply manage it better
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CommentWhere next for England's referral-to-treatment waiting times?
Expect 20 week RTT waits and 4 million patients on the waiting list in 2017, rising to 21 week waits in 2018, and so on indefinitely until the NHS in England starts keeping up with demand
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CommentHow to keep clinicians happy with IT: don’t mess up a data project
Managing data quality well adds up to a successful mutual investment between clinical and IT colleagues, with patients the winners
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Comment“Safe space” proposals could worsen relationships between patients and the NHS
Whilst protecting staff from inappropriate actions from bad employers is good, preventing patients from knowing the full truth would have serious consequences
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CommentWhat's holding clinicians back from leadership roles?
The Nuffield Trust’s new survey shows that much is still to be done to encourage clinicians to pursue strategic positions
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CommentWhy record sharing for multidisciplinary care is vital in the NHS
It is vital for organisations to come together and develop a single, combined record for each patient, writes Luke Readman
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CommentCapital financing options are plentiful, STPs need to think differently
One common STP priority where the gap between ambition and reality seems particularly exposed is that of capital finance
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CommentHere are your referral to treatment trajectories for the next two years
The waiting time guru runs the published RTT data through a planning model and produces detailed trajectories for trusts and specialties across England
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CommentHow evidence-informed health can tackle the supply and demand gap
The three ingredients which can ensure that evidence – with all its money-saving potential – is incorporated into NHS practice
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CommentNo jam today, and no jam tomorrow either
Policy ambition and public funding don’t add up in either the short or long term – and the result spells long-term economic trouble
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CommentHow Brexit and the US election could be impacting your IT budgets
It is a good time to ensure great value for money for the products and services you need, to support your organisation deliver great patient care
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CommentThis is how we get the measure of patient safety
We must continue seeking the most effective set of indicators if we are to obtain a more accurate picture of patient safety, writes Lord Ara Darzi
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CommentA simple idea that could breathe new life into clinical leadership
A collaboration between the NHS Leadership Academy and undergraduate clinical education providers could stimulate an interest in – and capability for – this neglected area, says Ali Raza
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CommentAll is well with social care – and that's a post-truth fact
Social care was ignored in this week’s autumn statement, but the government would do better to invest today than bail it out of a crisis tomorrow
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CommentTracking the care journey holds the key to a better life
By linking disabled facilities grants activity and social care data, home adaptations can delay entry into residential care
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CommentPlotting? Scheming? The reality behind the scenes at an STP
What takes place behind closed doors has more to do with negotiation and details of principle than the scheming sometimes imagined by the public
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CommentThe three actions that are essential to prevent NHS collapse
These steps are essential if the NHS is to belatedly design services around the needs of the modern UK population