All Public health articles – Page 2
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: New model neighbourhood
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentHow Healthwatch helps the NHS engage with communities
As 2024 begins, Louise Ansari, CEO at Healthwatch England, highlights some of the projects that made a difference for patients last year while showing the vital role of local action. We need to hear more of such examples in the new year.
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CommentThose with multiple conditions are the core customers of the NHS
One in four of us are now living with multiple long-term conditions, and this proportion is growing as the population ages. Charlotte Augst, director for policy, campaigns and improvement at Diabetes UK, says this should be a useful lens for service planning and design.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2023: Place-Based Partnership & Integrated Care Award
Winner Walsall Together Walsall Together – Collaborating for Happier Communities
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NewsTory leadership candidate appointed health minister
Two new ministers have been appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle.
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NewsStevens hits out at raft of ‘pound foolish’ government decisions
‘Chronic short-termism’ by government is undermining the nation’s ability to respond to another pandemic, a previous NHS England chief executive has said.
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar discussed how ICSs could best build economic and social value among their populations
In association with An on-demand version of this webinar is available. As part of their fundamental goal of improving health among their populations, integrated care systems also have opportunities to explore the benefits of their wider positions as local employers and influencers. By developing this “anchor institution” ...
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CommentHow paid 'lived experience partners' can enhance care
The Health Innovation Network transformed its approach by embedding strategic lived experience partners, enhancing co-production, and fostering meaningful community engagement, thus shaping healthcare projects and dismantling traditional power barriers
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CommentThe way ambulance trusts work has not always delivered, so we’re changing
London Ambulance Service Trust’s CEO Daniel Elkeles discusses the trust’s new five-year strategy and the three missions it aims to achieve
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Income 20 pounds, expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result s.114
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 content editor Hayley Kirton.
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Comment‘It was as if we didn’t exist’ – shoe family’s harrowing tale
Underfunding and negligence may have been contributory factors as single mother loses family home, reports Julian Patterson
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NewsICSs warned over free drug deals
Integrated care systems have been warned against signing deals with pharma companies offering medicines free-of-charge in order to access the market before they are properly assessed or commissioned.
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NewsImprove medicines use to ‘balance financial plans’, ICBs told
Integrated care boards must increase efforts to improve the effective use of medicines, in part to help systems ‘deliver balanced financial plans’, NHS England has said.
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CommentThe cost of living crisis means ICSs need to rethink inequality plans
Amidst the cost of living crisis, more than 7,000 people shared how rising expenses affected their well-being. The resulting report by Healthwatch Hertfordshire reveals critical challenges for healthcare services across the nation, writes Neil Tester.
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CommentThe point of economic growth is to meet increasing healthcare demand
As the demand for healthcare continues to grow amidst an ageing population, new research from the Health Foundation and the University of Liverpool sheds light on the scale of the challenges ahead. While living longer is a cause for celebration, it will require significant adjustments to meet the rising demand ...
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NewsPatients face medicine shortages as private market buys up drugs
A critical year-long shortage of vital type 2 diabetes medicines is being driven partly by its demand as a weight loss aid, with figures suggesting more than half the prescribing for one drug is through the private market, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHunt wanted 50pc cut to public health, says ex-PHE boss
Jeremy Hunt asked Public Health England to cut its budget by 50 per cent while he was health secretary, the agency’s former CEO has claimed.
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NewsVaccination programme proposed for illness with ‘considerable NHS impact’
The government has been advised to introduce a vaccination programme for respiratory syncytial virus for infants and older adults.
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HSJ PartnersDesigning better acute painful sickle cell care
Dr Carl Reynolds and Dr Habib Naqvi emphasise the need of improving sickle cell care by developing highly usable digital care plans, eliminating treatment delays and disparities, and ensuring patients receive timely analgesia
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NewsGovernment dilutes public health priorities to deliver shorter NHS mandate
The government has downgraded the importance of improving public health in its annual ‘mandate’ to the NHS.