Comment archive – Page 14
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LeaderThe NHS’s national clinical leaders need a clearer, stronger role
There are many candidates competing for the title of the most difficult leadership role in the NHS. However, national medical director has one of the most compelling cases, with chief nursing officer coming a close second.
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CommentShould the NHS quit X?
Racism still poses a complex and contentious challenge that is not being fully addressed. Creating more representative leadership and addressing the service’s involvement with problematic social media platforms are just two of the ways the service can help tackle the problem writes Edna Boampong
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Tony Blair’s digital health record proposal
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: What the death of 400 squirrels can teach the NHS about accountability
Blaming people for problems without giving them the power to fix them creates a significant gap in meaningful accountability, writes Steve Black
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LeaderAre site chief executives a good idea?
The number of hospital groups is increasing rapidly as HSJ’s analysis earlier this year showed. Their growth has brought about the arrival of a new breed of NHS leader – the site chief executive or managing director who reports to a group chief executive.
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CommentShop assistant appointed trust CEO and other 'alternative' news stories
Imagine what the news might have been like. Now you don’t have to, writes Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSE’s game of chicken with trusts’ cash
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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CommentThe NHS is failing refugees like me, but change is possible
Zafirah is a medic who fled violence in Yemen to seek safety in the UK. Upon arriving, she found it very difficult to access NHS care. She has lent her insight to a new framework by the British Red Cross
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: ‘Reform or die’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The NHS does not know how to plan
Steve Black highlights how the NHS struggles with effective planning, often producing unrealistic or uncoordinated plans that fail to achieve their intended goals.
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CommentExclusive: 10-year NHS plan revealed
Fixing the NHS is surprisingly simple, as the forthcoming government plan will make clear. The only mystery is why it took us so long to find the solution, writes Julian Patterson
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CommentLabour’s inheritance on RTT waiting times
At the end of the last government, waiting times were bad but no longer getting worse.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Don’t fixate on legal costs – invest in preventing harm in the first place
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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CommentMaking ICBs performance managers will slow integration
Ensuring effective system oversight and regulation is essential if the new government wants to achieve its ambitions to move more care away from hospitals and into the community, writes Kathy Mclean
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Walking into a GP trap
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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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: The argument for abolishing the CQC
Steve Black argues the Care Quality Commission needs radical reform or even abolition because of its flawed approach to inspections and lack of expertise
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Good news, long reads and tin foil hats
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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CommentRevealed: how quantum physics wrecked NHS funding
Public spending has been cancelled as Rachel Reeves develops an unhealthy obsession with Jeremy Hunt’s hole. Full story from Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingCarbon Copy: Renewed energy for net zero?
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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CommentHow Labour can end the eye care crisis
Professor Ben Burton outlines the steps that the new Labour government can take to address the challenges in ophthalmology.