All Long-term conditions articles – Page 20
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HSJ Knowledge
Make a link between mental and physical health services
Liaison psychiatry can help achieve parity between services
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Blogs
No one can provide quality care in 15 minutes
The increasing use of “pop in” calls by social services departments will make people who need care even more vulnerable
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HSJ Knowledge
Telehealth: a solution to bed blocking?
Supporting the transition from hospital to home care
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Blogs
I don’t need to go to hospital, I just need to go home to bed
Sometimes the patient knows best.
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Comment
New principles for planning patient care
Help us to make person centred, coordinated care a reality
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Comment
Why the ONS consultation matters to the NHS
Proposed cuts will impact those commissioning services
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Blogs
What is the house of care?
There are significant benefits to focusing on patients’ goals and empowering them to take an active part in their own care, says Angela Coulter
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News
Areas with worse life quality would be hit by allocation shake-up
Clinical commissioning groups in areas where people with long term conditions have a worse quality of life would lose funds under the revised allocation formula being considered by NHS England, analysis shows.
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Comment
Patient feedback is essential to the NHS's future
The friends and family test is helping to drive local improvements
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HSJ Knowledge
'Modernisation' is not a dirty word
How to defeat the competing demands of modernisation on patient care
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HSJ Local
Salford Royal consultant to launch ‘groundbreaking’ Parkinson’s study
CLINICAL RESEARCH: Salford Royal consultant neurologist Monty Silverdale is to launch “the largest ever study of pain in Parkinson’s Disease”, the foundation trust announced today.
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Comment
Old age is a lottery with too few winners
More people are struggling as they live longer into old age. We can’t go on like this
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Comment
Mental health support is essential to crisis care
Urgent care services for physical and mental health are fragmented
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News
Over-40s health checks dubbed 'waste of time'
Health checks offered to millions of people over 40 are a waste of time and could lead to people taking medicines unnecessarily, the head of the Royal College of GPs has said.Dr Clare Gerada said the government was promoting its NHS Health Check programme “against good evidence”.Her intervention comes after ...
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News
Telehealth awareness drive is failing survey reveals
An annual survey to establish the level of public awareness of telehealth has revealed nine out of 10 adults have never heard of it.
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HSJ Knowledge
A service designed for patients, by patients
Why those who use healthcare should play a part designing it
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HSJ Knowledge
Face up to the cost of post-cancer treatment
Prepare the NHS for a rising number of patients needing care
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News
Push for payment by results reform gathers pace
NHS England wants to investigate the scope for scrapping payment by results for some services as early as 2015-16, its director of strategic finance has told HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
A modern health service needs the third sector
Charities are well equipped to drive change in the NHS
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Comment
Will named clinicians for older people work?
Mr Hunt’s policy should be welcomed with some caution