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HSJ Partners
Cross-pathway efforts are needed to optimise multi-modality treatment for non-small cell lung cancer
After decades with little progress, the treatment landscape for lung cancer has dramatically transformed. However, experts at a roundtable event highlighted that the NHS is struggling to keep up with such rapid progress, and changes across the pathway are urgently needed to optimise outcomes from multi-modality treatment.
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HSJ Partners
Could better screening reduce the slide in UK cancer outcomes?
Deloitte sheds light on the barriers faced by vulnerable populations, disparities in cancer screening, and strategies for equitable access.
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Comment
The shameful state of children’s services can be rescued by Labour
Dame Clare Gerada, Dr Camilla Kingdon and Professor Sian Griffiths highlight the urgent need for robust reform to services for children and young people.
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News
Hospitals harm hundreds of patients a year by misidentification
Hundreds of patients are being harmed each year because NHS organisations have incorrectly identified who they are, an HSJ investigation has found.
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News
Revealed: Four-fold rise in emergency care deaths
The number of coroner warnings issued last year which were linked to a lack of capacity in emergency care was around four times that seen before covid.
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HSJ Local
‘Patients are choosing palliative care over cancer treatment’ due to lack of local services, CEO warns
Patients in part of the East of England are choosing to begin palliative care over cancer treatment because of prohibitive travel times and costs to get to the nearest specialist centre, a local system leader has warned.
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News
NHSE looks to match Scotland on cancer tests
NHS England is piloting a scheme to lower the threshold for getting a bowel cancer scan after screening, which would bring it in line with standards in Scotland.
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HSJ Local
More patients ‘now dying in A&E’ finds trust review
Ambulance handover delays and 21-hour waits for a bed in accident and emergency contributed to an increase in harm and mortality at a struggling trust, a review has found.
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Comment
We should not tolerate the NHS's suboptimal cardiovascular care
Dr Matt Kearney challenges the longstanding NHS tolerance of suboptimal care that drives cardiovascular disease – and the potential use of routine GP data that would prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes in three years.
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News
Coroners issue 24 warnings over emergency care crisis
Coroners have warned of increasing numbers of deaths caused by problems in the emergency pathway, with some citing ‘severe’ staffing shortages.
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HSJ Partners
Guidance on bladder cancer needs to be more specific still
Efforts to reduce variation in treatment for bladder cancer are welcome, but panellists at a recent roundtable event spoke of the need to develop more specific approaches to target patients at the highest risk of poor outcomes
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HSJ Local
Poor data leaves trust unable to report on avoidable deaths
An independent review has raised concerns about a mental health trust’s reporting systems, including what appeared to be a large number of patient deaths shortly after leaving the trust’s care.
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Comment
ICSs can disrupt the powerful social currents that pull people into ill health
Rosie Fogden discusses how the introduction of ICSs offers a significant opportunity for a renewed focus on the health of larger population as integrated health and social care has been the pinnacle of healthcare reform for decades
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Comment
The ICS role in ending the lung health lottery
New research from Asthma + Lung UK lays bare the stark inequalities facing people with lung conditions. Sarah MacFadyen, head of policy and external affairs at the leading lung health charity, explores whether new ICSs could help level up the nation’s lung health
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News
‘Patient safety progress stopped in its tracks by covid’ says Hunt report
A report commissioned by Jeremy Hunt before he became Chancellor has highlighted how the pandemic ’stopped progress on patient safety in its tracks’ and called for more accurate data to be published on a range of measures.
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News
Big rise in trusts ‘red rated’ for infant mortality
Nearly a fifth of trusts providing maternity care have been red rated for their infant mortality rates in a national audit.
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News
Hospital’s ‘consistently high’ mortality rate under investigation
NHS England and local system leaders are looking into “consistently high” mortality rates over the last two years at an acute hospital after previous reviews failed to find an explanation, an integrated care board meeting was told this week.
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News
Government examines surge in ‘potentially preventable’ deaths
Department of Health and Social Care officials are concerned that many more people are dying than expected in recent months – particularly older working-age people – with NHS care delays and interruptions a likely cause.
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HSJ Local
Internal memo warns of ‘increasingly common’ deaths in A&E
Senior doctors have raised concerns about the numbers of patients now dying in their A&E department due to extreme operational pressures.
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HSJ Partners
Connected medication management – How can BD help make it a reality?
Medication errors harm patients and cost the NHS money – but with the right approach they can be significantly reduced. A 2018 study from researchers at York, Manchester and Sheffield universities found that there were likely to be 237 million medication errors a year in the NHS and this could ...