All articles by Claire Read
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HSJ InteractiveDo hospitals need to get more serious about sleep?
Making hospitals more conducive to high quality sleep might benefit patient experience and wellbeing, and could perhaps even lead to reduced length of stay
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HSJ InteractiveHow can healthcare best use past, present and future information to support transformation?
Read the detailed report here. That the NHS has an abundance of information but a lack of insight is a truth frequently repeated. At some trusts, hardcopy notes continue to occupy valuable space while the intelligence they record remains difficult to access or analyse. Even where electronic patient records systems ...
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HSJ InteractiveHow can health inequalities best be identified – and then addressed?
Data is crucial to targeting health inequalities but its existence is not a solution in and of itself, a recent HSJ webinar heard
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HSJ InteractiveMaking the most of NHS IT teams
Following a flurry of demand at the start of the pandemic, NHS IT teams are now charged with finding ways to most effectively support colleagues in the longer term. A recent HSJ webinar explored how that challenge might be met
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HSJ InteractiveMedicines optimisation: How should value be measured?
The panel at a recent HSJ webinar argued value in medicine goes far beyond a review of the price tag – and expressed optimism that the ICS landscape presents opportunities to develop that broader understanding
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HSJ InteractiveWhat role might better data play in overcoming patient safety challenges?
Making data on medical interventions easier to collect and collate would increase the odds of spotting patterns of harm, according to the panel of a recent HSJ webinar
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS get weight management services right?
Obesity is a highly complex issue, affecting one in four people in England, and demand for weight management services is rapidly escalating. A recent HSJ webinar, run in association with Oviva, explored how the NHS might best meet this need. Claire Read reports
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HSJ InteractiveFrom competition to collaboration on temporary staffing: How can ICSs best create shared staff banks?
More and more systems are moving away from organisation-specific staff banks to ones which are shared between several trusts. At a recent HSJ webinar, panellists discussed the approach – and how to make it work
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HSJ InteractiveUnderstanding staff absence in the NHS
Staff absence is a multifaceted issue demanding an equally multifaceted response, panellists at a recent HSJ webinar argued
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HSJ PartnersWhat is the impact of RSV on the health system and patients, and how could it be reduced?
Each winter for many years, respiratory syncytial virus has done to paediatric services what covid has done to adult ones. So why does it often remain a little-known condition, and how could its impact be reduced? Claire Read reports.
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HSJ InteractiveCan NHS data ever be considered truly secure?
As more healthcare data gets digitised, via more devices, developing a plan for if things go wrong is crucial – as a recent HSJ webinar discussed
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HSJ InteractiveThe education conundrum
Finding time to educate clinicians and users on flash glucose monitoring is often cited as a barrier to more widespread use of the technology. But, some experts argue, it’s a challenge which may have been overstated
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HSJ InteractiveHow can ICSs widen access to innovative diabetes management?
In March 2022, NICE updated its recommendations on the management of diabetes in adults. The new guidelines recommend there should be broader access to intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring devices. So how can ICSs deliver on this? Claire Read reports
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HSJ InteractiveWhy has it been challenging for the NHS to universally implement electronic patient records?
An HSJ roundtable in association with HCI Group considered why universal EPR coverage has been an elusive goal for so long
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HSJ InteractiveHow can integrated care systems most effectively collect and use data to combat health inequalities?
A recent HSJ webinar, run in association with Oracle Cerner, considered how data might valuably play a part in addressing long-standing inequities. Claire Read reports.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS most effectively build resilience to a major cyberattack?
Before the pandemic, the NHS faced a widespread emergency in the form of the WannaCry cyberattack. The verdict then was that another such attack was not a matter of if, but when. So how can the NHS build resilience and defences? Claire Read reports from a recent HSJ webinar
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HSJ InteractiveCan addressing the backlog be a means of addressing health inequalities?
An HSJ webinar brought together a panel of experts to consider how tackling the backlog might perhaps become synonymous with tackling inequality. Claire Read reports
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS move from waiting lists to preparation lists?
Shared decision making and regular communication throughout a patient’s surgery pathway would, a recent HSJ webinar argued, help the NHS move from the concept of waiting lists to one of preparation lists – and to a better way of dealing with the backlog. Claire Read reports
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HSJ InteractiveCould the NHS make greater use of remote testing?
A recent HSJ webinar, supported by Medichecks, considered whether it’s viable for more patients to collect more samples remotely for subsequent analysis in laboratories – and what impact such a move might have on patients and services. Claire Read reports