All Long-term conditions articles – Page 4
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Respiratory Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Nottinghamshire Healthcare FT: Children’s Community Respiratory Physiotherapy Team (including Rapid Response) The Children’s Community Respiratory Physiotherapy Service are a team of four specialist physiotherapists. The service was established to improve outcomes, quality of life and experience for children with complex disorders, in line with the NHS long term plan. ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Diabetes Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Oxfordshire CCG, Oxford University Hospitals FT, Oxford Health FT, South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit: Using Data to Improve the Care of People with Diabetes Across Oxfordshire This was the development of a diabetes dashboard modelled on the National Diabetes Audit, which provided monthly updates on key care ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Cancer Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER: South Tees Hospitals FT: Holistic Wellbeing Calls for Cancer Patients At the outset of the pandemic a new telephone service was established to proactively call cancer patients to check their wellbeing, offer holistic therapy, provide local information and support, refer to appropriate services or simply provide a listening ear ...
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2021: Digital Clinical Transformation Award
WINNER: City and Hackney ICP, North East London CCG, East London FT, The Advocacy Project, Core Sport: A Digital Recovery Platform for Severe Mental Illness The digital pathway helps people with severe mental illness to plan and manage their own care, supported by a platform that brings all the tools ...
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Comment
Nobody should be denied a second chance of life because of their ethnicity
Henny Braund addresses the inequalities patients face during stem cell transplants, urging the NHS make sure care is culturally appropriate
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HSJ Interactive
The rewards and challenges of sharing personalised care plans
How can technology enable the implementation of personalised care plans across healthcare systems and what are the benefits to patients? Alison Moore reports on a webinar which tackled these key questions
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Comment
Black report on drugs is a wake-up call for the NHS and government
Julie Bass shares her take on the recently published Black review on drugs, suggesting approaches to uplift the substance misuse sector
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Comment
What HIV care can teach us about treating long covid
To successfully rehabilitate long covid patients, we should learn from existing best practice in long-term conditions care such as HIV, writes Charlotte Augst
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Comment
A comprehensive blueprint of psychological care is needed for teenagers and young adults
Dr Louise Soanes, chief nurse at Teenage Cancer Trust, discusses the launch of Teenage Cancer Trust’s new campaign, “#NotOk” and why mental health provision for young people with cancer is needed more than ever.
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HSJ Partners
How we are addressing waiting lists and social inequalities at scale
Nigel Foster on the need to not just restore services and reduce backlogs but to tackle potential inequalities in access, experience and outcomes
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HSJ Interactive
Making the most of community services
Raj Jain, who is chief executive of Northern Care Alliance (Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust), discussed the interconnectedness between the community and acute services his organisation provides – and how the pandemic has further influenced this. Joining him in offering insight on how the NHS can ...
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Comment
We can now prevent mental ill-health in the same way we fight cancer
A cutting-edge child and adolescent mental health centre hopes to help prevent young people from experiencing mental health problems. By Sir Norman Lamb
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News
Long-term plan target will fail without staffing increases, experts warn
Efforts to meet key NHS England ambitions to bolster community services are set to fall short without significant extra investment in staffing, experts have warned.
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Comment
Post-covid recovery: proactive care, self care and CVD prevention
A major concern for general practice is how to continue with the essential covid response while providing proactive care to patients who are at highest risk of deterioration. By Dr Matt Kearney and Laura Boyd
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HSJ Interactive
Preventing ill health
Panellists explored what ICSs can do around prevention and early intervention
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News
Exclusive: Huge covid death rate among vulnerable patients who have to travel to hospital
Dialysis patients who must travel to hospital are nearly four times as likely to die of covid than those aged over 80, but so far have not been prioritised for receiving vaccination, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Legislation in the time of covid
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
The covid pandemic could cause a decrease in cancer survival
Dr Robert Rintoul shares his insights on screening, diagnostics, retaining workforce and harnessing treatment opportunities for lung cancer services amid covid-19.
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HSJ Partners
A critical time for change: redefining renal care pathways in an evolving coronavirus environment
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted a clear need to re-evaluate existing referral pathways within renal services, in order to prioritise a more pro-active, planned and person-centred approach to shared decision-making – and crucially ...