Comment archive – Page 14
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CommentThe four steps boards need to take to achieve net zero
To achieve a net-zero healthcare system, NHS boards must lead by example, engage clinical staff, highlight the benefits, and collaborate with existing initiatives while emphasising sustainability, write Chris Naylor, Hayley Pinto, and Nuala Hampson
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CommentThe staff wellbeing strategies that work
Zosia Walecka says that trusts are dedicated to improving staff morale and patient care through their emphasis on culture, evidence-based methods, resource allocation, stress management, and promoting equality and diversity
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CommentNeurosurgery waits surge as national elective list hits new high
Clinical risk on the waiting list continues to grow
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Expert BriefingImPatient: It’s all about power – and we don’t have any
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 ...
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CommentTough choices (mostly) on hold
The recent party conferences revealed shifts in public health policy and heightened rhetoric on industrial action in the UK, but they fall short of addressing critical healthcare challenges, writes Richard Sloggett
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: copy Churchill to get the big decisions right
Emulating Churchill, the NHS should create a unit comprising experts who compile reliable evidence on important things and communicate them effectively to help the big decision makers determine how to fix its problems, writes Steve Black
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Maternity inequalities persist, but campaigning sparks medicine safety change
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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CommentLabour will throw everything but money at the NHS
The shadow health minister Wes Streeting sets out a bold vision of a reformed health service not run by a Conservative government. As told to Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Social care goes it alone on staffing plan
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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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: What backlog recovery could look like under Labour
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Death during the 'Christmas Day' strikes
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: There’s no ‘reset’ for ICS finances
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: Is this the answer to getting the NHS to think long-term?
The UK’s struggle with long-term public service investment, particularly in the NHS, prompts consideration of Demos’ proposed ‘PDEL’ category, but deeper systemic change may be necessary, writes Steve Black
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CommentWe should not tolerate the NHS's suboptimal cardiovascular care
Dr Matt Kearney challenges the longstanding NHS tolerance of suboptimal care that drives cardiovascular disease – and the potential use of routine GP data that would prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes in three years.
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CommentMarking your own homework and other stories
In the latest edition of the Blithering Informant, director of values-based stakeholder communications Martin Plackard brings you the latest news from the country’s most challenged integrated care board
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: In search of bold policy
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, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentThe seven ways AI can help ease NHS workforce pressures
AI technologies hold significant promise for alleviating workforce pressures and improving healthcare across the NHS, with applications in clinical decision-making, imaging, digital pathology, remote care, administrative tasks, operational efficiency, and patient communication, writes Thomas Burden
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CommentWe must remember the lessons of the pandemic and prioritise lung health
A lack of funding for lung tests is leaving people with conditions like asthma and COPD at increased risk of being hospitalised this winter, a new report reveals. Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma + Lung UK, says lung disease must be treated with the same urgency as other health conditions
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: The trusts slipping the most on PM’s pledge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.