South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Page 196
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Comment
Optometry has a critical part to play in tackling the NHS backlog
Community optometrists can provide an immediate solution to the backlog in hospital eye departments, but only if there is a sustained NHS commitment towards true integration into the primary healthcare family, writes Adam Sampson
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: More EPRs, less pay and a different health secretary
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Who is Therese Coffey?
As a new secretary of state takes up the reins, HSJ examines the situation she inherits and what she might do.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: An unprecedented appointment?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
New government health adviser teams revealed
Former hospital chief Samantha Jones is leaving government after her role was abolished in Liz Truss’ Downing Street shake-up, but former NHS England director Emily Lawson remains.
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Comment
English waiting list nears 7 million
The wait for diagnosis and decision is rising much faster than the wait for treatment.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Will ‘ICS first’ survive the Coffey era?
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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Comment
Has the growth in medical consultants outstripped need?
The specialty reports reference international benchmarking data to argue the need for more of everyone, illustrates Dr Nadeem Moghal
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News
NHSE director: ‘Overwhelmingly negative narrative must stop’
NHS England’s chief strategy officer has called for a “reset” of the current “overwhelmingly negative narrative” about the health service.
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News
NHS cuts 18-month waits but concerns over key target remain
NHS trusts again recorded a month-on-month reduction in the number of patients waiting over 78 weeks for treatment, although the flagship target to eliminate this cohort by March remains a tall order, with winter pressures set to crank up.
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News
Serving NHSE director joins trust board
A senior NHS England figure has been appointed as a non-executive director at a struggling acute trust.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Would the real health secretary please stand up?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
Former Cabinet minister given key role at DHSC
Robert Jenrick has been appointed as a health minister in Liz Truss’s Cabinet reshuffle.
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Comment
The uncomfortable truth about the CQC
An employment tribunal has just found the Care Quality Commission guilty of unfairly dismissing a whistleblower. Roger Kline examines the case and is implications.
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News
Revealed: Long-wait cancer patient list grows again
The backlog of urgent cancer referral patients who have waited 104 days or more for treatment has increased month-on-month again, internal NHS data reveals.
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Expert Briefing
Hospital bosses welcome new health secretary's pledge to tackle ambulance delays
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ Partners
Who’s next please?
The challenges presented by pursuing novel and heterogenous methods of prioritising elective waiting lists.
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Less pay, more pain
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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News
PM Truss appoints new health secretary
Remembering the reception on HSJ Thérèse Coffey has been appointed as the new health and social care secretary.
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News
Pritchard: We need to find alternatives to 999 for care homes and falls
The NHS needs to do more to support care homes and people who have fallen with alternatives to ambulance calls and hospital admissions, the NHS England chief executive has said.