Comment archive – Page 126
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CommentAmazed, guilty, excited, incompetent and frustrated — how NHS leaders feel amid the crisis
Niall Dickson discusses the various issues that are confronting NHS leaders during the coronavirus pandemic and testing their performance and levels of resilience
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The two NHS cultures
The scientist and novelist C P Snow’s famous 1959 lecture and book describes The Two Cultures of the sciences and the humanities as having become polarised.
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LeaderShould non-clinical staff risk their lives for the NHS?
The debate continues over which NHS staff should stay home. Many non-clinicians, and even some clinicians, are deeply unhappy with their employers’ instructions to come to work – which seems at odds with government advice.
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Comment‘Will I be stigmatised for staying at home?’
HSJ received many messages after the publication of our editorial on managerial and administrative working from home. Below are a small selection which have inspired our second take on the issue. Some small details have been changed to protect the identity of those who contacted us
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Show me the money
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: A Nightingale sang
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingSilver linings in the pandemic cloud
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Nicholas Carding in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Staffing The Nightingale
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: Leading the field
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Regional variation
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: Losing the will
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingBe prepared for the financial ‘reckoning’
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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Expert BriefingHSJ Weekly Catch Up: Nightingales, PPE problems and local knowledge
Your essential update on health for the week — this week focused on the coronavirus outbreak.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: What hope sounds like
With increasing political populism seen at its apex in Brexit and amidst the consequence-free political lying, a round of applause is maybe what hope sounds like. Writes Andy Cowper.
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LeaderPlease stay home too: an open letter to NHS managers and other admin staff
This editorial is not meant as a criticism of the efforts being made by the centre or senior managers working at a local level. HSJ knows better than most how hard they are working and – in most cases – how effective they are being.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: For some, calm before the storm
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingRevealed: The challenges and dilemmas as NHS Nightingale prepares to open
The NHS and Army’s project to convert London’s ExCel into a 4,000-bed field hospital — a plan of unprecedented scale for this country — is grappling with major clinical and cultural tensions, as well as the huge logistical challenge, ahead of its official opening next week.
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Expert BriefingDaily Insight: ‘The next PPE’
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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CommentPrimary care has transformed into a ‘dial-in’ or ‘click first’ service
Responding to the new norm of social distancing has led primary care to adopt digital triaging as its primary way of working in just three weeks. Explains Clare Gerada.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Calm before the storm
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.