All Long-term conditions articles – Page 8
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: What the long term NHS plan will - and won't - do for integration
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping policy, providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Comment
Government must boost dementia research spending
Dementia is the health crisis of our time and the government needs to pull up its socks with an increase in dementia research, notes Hilary Evans
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Target inequalities, invest in general practice
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping policy, providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Comment
More intelligent approach needed to redesign outpatient services
With outpatient activity often ignored in policy creation, Nigel Edwards delineates the learnings from an event held to hear from people who have fundamentally changed outpatient services
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Comment
Providing consistent and humane end of life care
Ian Greenwood recounts the traumatic experiences of his late father to highlight NHS clinical inefficiency and inconsistent care and the importance of communicating end of life care plans
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Comment
Running to stand still
In light of the extra £20.5bn NHS funding, Anita Charlesworth outlines the various cost pressures that will likely consume most of the extra funding before improvements in quality and access can materialise
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Primary colours
Andy Cowper notes that most of the problems affecting the NHS are as much about the absence of well functioning relationships as they are about the lack of data
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Comment
Dementia is conspicuously absent from new NHS priorities
The government must put dementia at the heart of its priorities, not in 10 years’ time, but now. By Hilary Evans
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News
Social care green paper will not be 'panacea'
The social care green paper will not be a “panacea” for chronic problems in the system, is likely to propose only minor legislative change, and be based on the assumption that limited sums of new money are available.
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Comment
Health and housing cross sector commission can be a total game changer
Health and housing coupled together can reduce poverty, improve health and reduce demand on the NHS, states Lord Kerslake
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Comment
In the debate over AI access to patients, the consumer’s voice is critical
Access and appropriate use of healthcare could be improved and people could have more control of their health with the use of artificial intelligence, writes Halima Khan
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Comment
Close the gaping gap between policy and people’s lived reality
What does the 10 year plan, now being worked up by the NHS, need to contain to bridge the distance between policy and the lived reality of people using services, wonders Charlotte Augst
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News
Exclusive: Hunt pushes for big cancer pledge in new NHS plan
Jeremy Hunt wants an ambitious cancer pledge to be a core plank of the government’s new NHS plan, with senior figures pushing for the service’s £7.5bn cancer budget to be doubled over the longer term, HSJ understands.
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Comment
Patient leadership for real - The Sussex model for patient partnership
With patients as trusted equals in decision making, Sussex MSK Partnership (Central) appointed the first patient director in the NHS to facilitate patient partnerships for improvement and governance, says David Gilbert
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Comment
Ambition to save more lives from cancer is vital for NHS plan
A multiyear budgeting approach is needed to achieve transformation in cancer care and make long-term savings
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News
Region's elderly care services 'inconsistent', says CQC
Health services for older people in Cumbria are inconsistent and services are in the “very early” stages of integration, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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News
Exclusive: CQC needs more powers to rate health systems, says Behan
The government should give the Care Quality Commission new powers to inspect and rate local health systems, its outgoing chief executive has told HSJ.
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Comment
Community services – the glue in the system
Georgia Butterworth argues that we need to recognise and build on the massive untapped opportunities presented by strengthening community services
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Comment
Voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations can help co-design systems
Alex Fox, Glen Garrod and Rob Webster on how voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations are at the heart of developing more integrated systems
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HSJ Partners
The role of local pharmacy in the future of homecare
Ruth Poole, healthcare director at Celesio, looks at the challenges facing the clinical homecare industry that are prompting innovation and new models of care