All Public health articles – Page 24
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NewsPHE calls for payment tariff on public health outcomes
The NHS must do more to stop people smoking and Duncan Selbie thinks the best way to do it is to implement a national tariff for smoking cessation.
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NewsSelbie: Forward view did not deliver on prevention
The NHS long term plan must have a large prevention ambition because the Five Year Forward View proposals were never implemented, according to a public health chief.
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NewsStevens: ‘NHS must get serious about new public health threats’
“Getting serious” about prevention and tackling new threats to public health will create the headroom to bring new innovations into the NHS, NHS England’s chief executive said today.
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CommentCowper’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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NewsExclusive: Discrepancies in national IT systems raise fear of patient harm
An urgent national review is underway into a mismatch of thousands of patient records that may have caused patients, including children, to miss out on disease screening and immunisation appointments, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMackey, Deegan and Marsh among chiefs selected to develop 10 year-plan
Top provider chief executives will help lead some of the workstreams that will start developing the NHS’s 10 year plan, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTerror alert issued after suspicious liquid sent to hospitals
An alert has been sent by the chief medical officer to all NHS organisations after a suspicious package containing liquid was sent to a number of NHS hospitals, HSJ has learned.
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CommentWhat if M&S was run like the NHS?
There is a need for solutions based on a full understanding of the reasons behind the variation and complexity in service delivery, writes Alastair Beattie
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NewsNHS England tells staff groups to act on flu vaccine
NHS England is calling on the royal colleges to provide an action plan to encourage uptake of the flu vaccine among staff, after a clinical study made a direct link between vaccination and mortality rates.
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CommentHealth 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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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2018: Best Product or Innovation for Patient Safety (public)
Winner Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust: Body worn video on mental health wards
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CommentTrusts must co-own the 10 year plan for the NHS
The new plan must be credible with the frontline, requiring honesty and realism about the trade offs that must be made, given the resource available, writes David Williams
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CommentThe NHS at 70: same, same but different?
Looking at a broad range of data, new health trends have emerged over the past seven decades leading to changing patient demands and fluctuating satisfaction levels with the NHS, notes Gillian Prior
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CommentA new deal with the public
It’s time to revisit what people can expect from the NHS and what their obligations are in return, writes Chris Ham
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CommentNHS funding settlement: ‘a change of gear’ for the NHS?
The announcement about the NHS funding settlement can be interpreted in two ways, says Ben Gershlick
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NewsNHS trusts overturn council's £100m Virgin Care contract
A High Court judge has overturned a local authority’s contract with Virgin Care for public health services after a successful legal challenge by two NHS trusts.
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CommentClose 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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LeaderThe funding deal is done, but a crucial few months follow
How far the NHS’s new funding deal will stretch will be shaped by some important decisions in the next five months.
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NewsNumber of breast screening error deaths revised down
The number of women whose lives may have been shortened by an error in the national breast screening programme has been revised down to less than 75, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told Parliament.
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Expert BriefingHow £250m of capital funding slipped away
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.