All HSJ Interactive articles – Page 5
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Taking virtual wards system-wide – is your ICS ready?
A recent HSJ webinar held in association with Spirit Health discussed progress so far for virtual wards and explored what needs to happen next to drive implementation forward. Jennifer Trueland reports
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Building on the experience of successful virtual wards
Embedding virtual wards across an integrated care system means getting the support and buy-in from all parts of the system, said Rachel Marsh, deputy medical director, University Hospitals of Leicester Trust. Sponsored by Her organisation is building on the experience of successful virtual wards for COPD and covid ...
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How can integrated care systems most effectively collect and use data to combat health inequalities?
A recent HSJ webinar, run in association with Oracle Cerner, considered how data might valuably play a part in addressing long-standing inequities. Claire Read reports.
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Helping the vulnerably housed get better care
Through their work for vulnerable communities, JustLife has become a leading organisation for researching, advocating for and working with people living in temporary accommodation.
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Ensuring good health and well-being for deaf people
Supporting the deaf community in accessing healthcare and committed to removing the barriers that prevent equitable access and treatment, SignHealth, a passionate and caring deaf-led team, have been working with and campaigning for deaf people, many of whom use sign language, since 1986.
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Working to eradicate health inequalities experienced by the black community
Created to erase health disparities faced by the black community, CAHN act as a direct point of contact with commissioners; to champion the work of the Caribbean and African community, and promote its assets, efficiencies, and achievements.
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How specialist mesh services fared in their first year
Specialist centres for those affected by mesh implants, as recommended by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, became operational formally in April 2021. Here is how they performed in their first year.
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Webinar: What needs to happen if remote monitoring is to truly enhance patient outcomes and system efficiencies?
in association with WEBINAR: What needs to happen if remote monitoring is to truly enhance patient outcomes and system efficiencies? Tuesday 18 October 2022 – 10.30am-11.15am Remote monitoring of patients quickly accelerated during the first phases of the pandemic, most notably via pulse ...
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Improving patient flow to help tackle the elective backlog
Patient flow will be one of the big challenges for NHS managers over the coming year. Ensuring that patients move swiftly through a hospital is vital to avoid blockages at accident and emergency – including ambulance handover delays – and to make best use of available bed capacity. Without this, ...
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The need for education around psychological interventions
Primary care is facing growing pressures due to a mental health crisis. More needs to be done to unify mental and physical healthcare, in recognition that they are ‘almost inseparable’, with each impacting on the other. Jen Trueland reports
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How can ICSs improve access to mental health interventions across the health and social care system?
An HSJ webinar, in association with SilverCloud Health, discussed the importance of integration between mental health services and physical healthcare. Jen Trueland reports
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Roundtable: How can the NHS best cope with respiratory viruses?
An HSJ roundtable, initiated and funded by Sanofi, discussed the impact of common respiratory viruses on system-wide pressures
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HSJ webinar discussed how can ICSs be better supported to adopt proven new technologies?
in association with On demand recording now available As integrated care systems continue to take shape in England, challenges remain over how to implement value-based procurement that enables smooth adoption of proven new technologies. Although a number of national initiatives have sought to ...
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Webinar: How to improve patient flow through supported discharge
Freeing up space in hospitals is a key consideration for all trusts as they try to increase the amount of elective patients they can admit, in line with the elective care recovery plan. Many hospitals have struggled to discharge patients who no longer need medical or nursing care but who ...
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HSJ webinar discussed if ICSs are ready to take virtual wards system-wide
in association with On demand recording now available NHS England has asked integrated care systems to expand the number of “virtual wards” or hospital at home services to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge. The priority areas are frailty and acute respiratory ...
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HSJ webinar discussed how ICSs can effectively use data to combat health inequalities
in association with On demand recording now available The early waves of the pandemic starkly illustrated the impact of social determinants on health, sometimes leading to an enhanced focus on providing equal access to healthcare. The question now is how the NHS might maintain that ...
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Restoring eye care services to reduce avoidable sight loss
A recent HSJ webinar explores issues surrounding the huge backlogs for ophthalmology treatments, how to tackle them and the pandemic’s role in our response
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Top CEOs roundtable 2022
HSJ brought together a panel of trust chief executives drawn from its annual list of the NHS’s Top 50 CEOs. Their discussion ranged across clarity of purpose for ICSs, the need for a coherent operating model and robust accountability
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How can the NHS most effectively build resilience to a major cyberattack?
Before the pandemic, the NHS faced a widespread emergency in the form of the WannaCry cyberattack. The verdict then was that another such attack was not a matter of if, but when. So how can the NHS build resilience and defences? Claire Read reports from a recent HSJ webinar
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Can addressing the backlog be a means of addressing health inequalities?
An HSJ webinar brought together a panel of experts to consider how tackling the backlog might perhaps become synonymous with tackling inequality. Claire Read reports