Comment archive – Page 107
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: How will the second wave be different?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Wiser but not necessarily stronger
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentIt is policy not demographics that drives NHS funding choices
One of the big short-term decisions with very long-term consequences is the capital allocation for the NHS in this autumn’s spending review and prioritising backlog of elective care, writes Anita Charlesworth
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Nursing the Nightingales
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 workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: The testing tête-à-tête
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Bed constraints start to bite
HSJ’ s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Restoration reconsidered
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentThe benefits of international collaboration for the NHS during covid-19
An international effort to improve patient care through collaboration and the sharing of real-time experience and outcome data helped an NHS trust to stay ahead of the covid ‘curve’, notes Nina Janda
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: ‘Covid critical’ Liverpool abandons its restoration
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Helter Skelter
“When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide” ‘Helter Skelter’ (Paul McCartney) That was a week, that was. (Yes, I have a nasty feeling this could be the opening line for this column for some months to come, too.) The numbers are starting ...
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Hollow celebration
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: The race to reduce R
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentWhy ‘empty hospitals’ headlines mislead
David Oliver explains how statistics have been picked to portray the pandemic as a ‘scamdemic’ and policy responses as over-reactions in a misrepresentation of hospital admissions and bed occupancy rates
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: The A word
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Comment10 pc of elective patients treated in August had waited 10 months or more
More and more waiting lists are disappearing into the 52-week-plus category, notes Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Liberating local leaders for wave two
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Get recruiting, get rewarded
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Poll reveals true impact of pandemic on non-covid patients
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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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Back to the future
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentHealth is made at home, hospitals are for repair
Lessons for NHS to learn from health creators that use a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, creating conducive environment for people to flourish, by Nigel Crisp