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Comment
How Labour can end the eye care crisis
Professor Ben Burton outlines the steps that the new Labour government can take to address the challenges in ophthalmology.
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Comment
The collateral damage caused by the row over physician associates
As NHS funding debates heat up, first-contact physiotherapists are unfairly targeted. Despite their crucial role in managing musculoskeletal conditions and easing GP workloads, their importance should not be overshadowed, writes Ash James
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: CQC inspections become the inspected
The tables have turned for the Care Quality Commission. This week HSJ revealed the government is launching a review of its new inspection regime and whether its ratings are properly incentivising care improvements.
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News
Exclusive: Regions most in need of doctors still missing out under NHS workforce plan
The regions with the greatest need for more medical trainees are benefiting the least from the early years of the NHS workforce plan, HSJ analysis shows.
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Comment
The NHS must rethink the role of occupational therapists
Occupational therapy faces recruitment challenges amidst evolving healthcare needs, prompting a strategic shift towards community-focused roles, writes Karin Orman
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News
Leaked national tech workforce plan proposes local pay rises
The NHS’s new “digital workforce plan” is set to propose that employers be given the ability to make “extensive use” of local recruitment and retention incentives to ensure the service can compete for the most talented technology staff.
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£6bn deficit warning sparks ‘horrible’ demands for nationwide cuts
Local NHS organisations are facing intense “pressure” from NHS England’s national and regional teams to cut staffing numbers to improve the service’s financial outlook for 2024-25.
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Comment
NHS leaders are entering dangerous territory as election nears
Matthew Taylor explains how the NHS leaders face mounting pressure from the government’s productivity demands amid insufficient support and funding, risking short-term fixes over long-term solutions
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Sustaining the, apparently, unsustainable
Anita Charlesworth and Malte Gerhold explore the impact of last week’s budget on the NHS.
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Why NHS trusts should employ ‘corporate psychologists’
Behavioural and cognitive issues lie at the heart of many problems facing hospital NHS trusts, whether they relate to patient care or staff wellbeing. These issues can best be managed if each major hospital trust has dedicated corporate psychologists assigned to these two domains, writes Narinder Kapur
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The surgeon called me 'a snivelling clerk', I stood my ground
Ken Jarrold reflects on a career shaped by the commitment to patient care, recalling pivotal moments enforcing a code of conduct and navigating controversial service reconfigurations
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed providing mental health support to NHS staff
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. The covid pandemic has left many NHS staff with long-lasting psychological scars. These, along with the pressures of working in a healthcare system under strain, has created increased demand for mental health support. Until ...
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An analyst-shaped hole in the workforce plan
The long-term workforce plan highlights the critical role of data analysis and AI in healthcare but overlooks the existing and growing community of professional healthcare data analysts, writes AphA
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The staff wellbeing strategies that work
Zosia Walecka says that trusts are dedicated to improving staff morale and patient care through their emphasis on culture, evidence-based methods, resource allocation, stress management, and promoting equality and diversity
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HSJ Interactive
HSJ webinar discussed realising the NHS workforce plan and what role technology and digitisation might play?
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. Technological innovation is mentioned frequently in the NHS long-term workforce plan. Indeed, the long-awaited document, which was published in June, positions technology and digitisation as key to realising the plan’s three aims: to train, ...
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HSJ Partners
Waiting lists speak more than volumes: persistently large numbers can not be tackled simply by increasing activity
Improving systems, seeking proactive assurance on digital infrastructures and upskilling the workforce are key to tackling the backlog in the here and now to keep patients safe, says Stephen Hall
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Analysts with benefits
The NHS long-term plan’s omission of analysts and data scientists has been revealed as a deliberate act, sparking frustration and a call for a robust digital workforce strategy, writes Andi Orlowski
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Comment
Navigating the future: Challenges and innovations in healthcare workforce planning
The workforce plan’s aims for new roles will require an extensive organisational and workforce development programme, writes Nick Krachler
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Comment
We must be imaginative about boosting the learning disabilities workforce
Challenges in learning disability care persist, impacting lives and experiences within the NHS. Hope lies in recruiting, training, and empowering a diverse workforce for positive change, writes Dr Jane Padmore
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News
Leak reveals ‘crazy’ decision to ‘strip out commitments’ from NHS workforce plan
Senior officials had to “strip out commitments to future plans, or policies” from the long-term workforce plan – including an earlier promise of a dedicated digital workforce plan – according to leaked internal emails seen by HSJ.