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HSJ Partners
Hard to swallow: The critical issue of time critical medication
It might seem patently self-evident, but time critical medication needs to be taken on time. Yet, the reality is that, all too often, it isn’t – and the consequences can be fatal.
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The NHS is holding the economy back by failing to share its data
Matthew Swindells writes about how unlocking AI’s potential in the NHS can boost productivity, improve patient care, and free clinicians from admin tasks by prioritising simpler, proven technologies like RPA and machine learning
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Charisma: The key to getting things done in the NHS
A recent podcast’s argument that charisma is responsible for the current pattern of NHS services implies that just improving community-based services will not change patterns of care, writes Fraser Battye
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The use of volunteers is no longer just a 'nice to have'
From its pandemic origins, the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders programme has evolved to tackle broader healthcare challenges in the NHS, delivering promising results
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The NHS must take back control of its data
Robust data infrastructure and language AI could transform the NHS, addressing the challenges of unstructured data and the critical need for ethical, transparent data governance in healthcare, writes Dr Joe Zhang, head of data science at the Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value-Based Healthcare
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HSJ Partners
How do we coordinate our approach to medicines optimisation?
Medicines optimisation teams are advancing patient care through initiatives like polypharmacy management and antimicrobial stewardship, yet face new challenges. FDB is developing holistic solutions to support these efforts effectively.
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HSJ Partners
Enhancing cost certainty for NHS capital projects with Daisy: A digital AI and sustainability tool
The new government’s focus is firmly on fixing the NHS, increasing productivity by 2 per cent year-on-year, reducing the current repairs backlog of just under £13.8bn and creating a step change in the NHS’s overall capital budget through a £3.1bn increase for 2024-2025. It is therefore of utmost importance to ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Awards 2024: Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year
WINNER Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, The Centre for Early Childhood Development (A Better Start), Blackpool Council Early Parenthood Service – Supporting Parents To Be The Best They Can Be
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HSJ Interactive
How research and the NHS are partnering to improve patient outcomes
If the NHS wants to both improve care and become the sort of life sciences powerhouse the health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has talked about, bringing together data collected by both healthcare staff and researchers will be vital.
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HSJ Partners
Navigating financial challenges in the NHS: Innovating to drive efficiency
Stephen McMillan, solutions leader, Philips Europe and UK & Ireland, writes how collaboration, and shifting healthcare services into community settings can help attain productivity and financial gains
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The 'three shifts' are already happening
Moving care from hospital to community, implementing digital transformation, and shifting from treatment to prevention are the three shifts being led by NHS trusts to mitigate the challenges in how care is delivered, writes Emily Gibbons
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HSJ Partners
Empowering primary care: how technology is transforming medicines optimisation
Lord Darzi’s independent report into the state of the NHS provided a sobering assessment of the country’s health service, which will require significant action to remedy. But for many, the report and the government’s commitment to be guided by its findings are signs that primary care is getting the spotlight ...
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HSJ Partners
Problem-solving in inpatient mental healthcare: The role of digital observations
Paper-based methods make it difficult to capture, organise, and retrieve useful data. Co-produced digital observations facilitate the collection of richer data, giving clinicians a more holistic and comprehensive view of a patient’s condition.
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How to bridge the NHS’s gulf on AI adoption
AI is shaping many aspects of our lives, yet the NHS is seemingly impenetrable to its advances – here’s how to close the gulf between policy and implementation
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HSJ Partners
Capacity-sparing innovations in blood cancer could unlock NHS potential
Toby Kent of AbbVie UK highlights how the forthcoming NHS 10-year plan is a crucial opportunity to set out a vision for medicines’ role as capacity-sparing innovations which could reduce pressures on infusion services in blood cancer and improve treatment choices for people affected by cancer.
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Being a patient taught me things I hadn’t learned as a trust CEO
NHS CEO’s patient journey helps him realise the strengths of the NHS and areas requiring improvement, particularly in EDI and the use of emerging technologies
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Why we're building the world's biggest cancer database
Magnus Harrison highlights how Leeds Teaching Hospitals is leveraging data-driven healthcare to predict future health challenges, prevent disease progression, reduce health inequalities, and improve patient outcomes
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HSJ Partners
Four ways CCS brings power to health sector procurement projects
With tighter NHS budgets and resources, buying products and services is challenging. Working with Crown Commercial Service can help take some pressure off your capital projects.
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News
NHSE chief: Federated data platform will ‘not be spectacular’
An NHS England chief has admitted the controversial “federated data platform” will “not be that spectacular” despite national leaders previously talking it up as “critical for the future of the NHS.”
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More money will not fix the NHS's maintenance backlog
David Jones writes about how data can be used to develop strategies to mitigate the impacts of backlog maintenance on patient safety, staff morale, and the financial sustainability of healthcare facilities