Comment archive – Page 104
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Changing Health Secretary may cause Saj effects
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Purchasing power, unanswered questions and steadier pensions
Your essential update on health for the week.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How the ICS bill stalled at the 11th hour
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 correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Matt Hancock’s tech legacy assessed
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week by senior correspondent Nick Carding.
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CommentICSs should focus on relationships as much as governance
Integrated care systems must combine the software of relationships with the hardware of governance, writes Sir Chris Ham
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CommentThe next NHS CEO will have much to learn from the diverse voices of the HSJ100 wildcards
The panel of judges who will choose the HSJ100 later this year were tasked with thinking about the voices that go unheard by the NHS establishment but from whom there is much to learn, writes David Hancock
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CommentThe 20 ‘wildcards’ the NHS’s new bosses should listen to
We’re on course for the two most directly powerful people in UK healthcare — health secretary and NHS England chief executive — to undergo a change in the space of five weeks. They could learn quickly and stay focused by getting out and speaking to our 20 ’wildcards’, chosen as ...
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CommentSajid Javid’s in-tray
Richard Sloggett shares his insights on the newest appointment of Sajid Javid as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Hancock goes and Javid shows
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Guardian quits, No.10 hires and successors jostle
Your essential update on health for the week.
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CommentWe need a more compelling vision for the NHS reforms than simply 'undoing Lansley'
With the forthcoming health bill set to be introduced to Parliament in the next few weeks, and more technical guidance on the reforms due from NHS England soon, there is limited time to set out a much needed for vision for the changes they will bring, by Richard Murray, Charlotte ...
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Hoping for another ‘Rashford moment’
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ performance, recovery and workforce correspondent Nick Kituno, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies ...
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CommentThe government's NHS data strategy missed the boat on transparency
The new data strategy is once again a lost opportunity to advance the transparency agenda – providing accessible performance data on hospitals and all other care settings, writes Alex Kafetz
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CommentExploring the benefits of dermatology screening clinics
Screening consultations can prove to be a breakthrough for patients on the waiting list, by Alun Evans.
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CommentWhat HIV care can teach us about treating long covid
To successfully rehabilitate long covid patients, we should learn from existing best practice in long-term conditions care such as HIV, writes Charlotte Augst
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: A new era dawns for specialised services
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Give deprived areas more vaccine and staffing support
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Hope Is A Dangerous Thing
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentNHS knowledge specialists have never been more vital
The vital role NHS Knowledge and Library Services play in informing key decision making was brought into a sharper focus than ever during the pandemic, writes Sue Lacey Bryant
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CommentA comprehensive blueprint of psychological care is needed for teenagers and young adults
Dr Louise Soanes, chief nurse at Teenage Cancer Trust, discusses the launch of Teenage Cancer Trust’s new campaign, “#NotOk” and why mental health provision for young people with cancer is needed more than ever.