Comment archive – Page 10
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The Budget will not necessarily improve the value of NHS care
The NHS must boost management and capital spending, not just frontline hires, to truly enhance healthcare value, writes Steve Black
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CommentTrusts need to prepare for physician associate registration
Upcoming regulation will hold physician associates and anaesthesia associates to higher standards, ensuring safer patient care and stronger accountability while addressing doctors’ concerns on team integration
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Falling through the gaps
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: How far does £22bn go?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: More healthcare can harm not heal
Many discussions post-Darzi miss key insights, mistakenly linking NHS issues solely to underfunding while evidence suggests more activity can lead to worse health outcomes
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LeaderMental health is not a priority for this government
This government is fond of declaring it is committed to “three shifts” in health and care policy: hospital to community, analogue to prevention, and treatment to prevention.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Where’s my transformation fund gone?
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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CommentThe 'three shifts' are already happening
Moving care from hospital to community, implementing digital transformation, and shifting from treatment to prevention are the three shifts being led by NHS trusts to mitigate the challenges in how care is delivered, writes Emily Gibbons
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: It shouldn’t take a CQC inspection
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Can data bill fix healthcare’s digital disconnect?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Will the 10-year NHS Plan matter?
Steve Black previews the imminent budget and the publication of the government’s NHS plan
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Expert BriefingImPatient: ‘We talked to several members of the public’
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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CommentTreasury rules are forcing unhappy NHS staff into protracted legal battles
Treasury rules place a cap on severance payments and deter employees from settling cases outside the courtroom, further escalating legal disputes, writes Roger Kline
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The NHS remains an organisation with amnesia
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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CommentHow to bridge the NHS’s gulf on AI adoption
AI is shaping many aspects of our lives, yet the NHS is seemingly impenetrable to its advances – here’s how to close the gulf between policy and implementation
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Expert BriefingCarbon Copy: Emissions down, flights up
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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CommentPatient choice: two decades on and in need of reform
Adam Sampson, chief executive of the Association of Optometrists, explains why we need to put systems and structures in place to underpin real choice for patients, while having a grown-up discussion about the role of private providers
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CommentInvestment in technology and prevention has to be at the heart of the Budget
The upcoming budget will shape NHS funding for 2025-26, balancing immediate health needs with long-term investment in technology, prevention, and a healthier future economy, writes Anita Charlesworth
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LeaderThe future of NHS England
NHS England is to have a new chair, albeit the current incumbent Richards Meddings has agreed to stick around until March in line with the government’s tactic of getting the previous administration to ‘own’ a very difficult winter.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Hospitals should be run like factories
Steve Black analyses the assertion that the NHS should not operate like a factory