Comment archive – Page 208
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: Nice one Jim, now let's see results
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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CommentA four-point plan to save our STPs
The once in a generation opportunity could be thrown away unless we take action now - here’s what we need to do, says Jon Restell
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CommentEnglish waiting times growth trebles
Since the incomplete pathways target was first met in 2012, English waiting times have been creeping up at about half a week per year. Now they’re growing three times faster
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Stevens and Mackey interviews, and NHS fraudster convicted
Your essential update on the week in health
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CommentAcute lack of investment is starving healthcare estates
Buildings and infrastructure in the healthcare sector are suffering a serious shortage of cash and need new financing models to break the deadlock.
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How Johns Hopkins is boosting efficiency with control centres
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore worked with GE to develop a state-of-the-art, control centre to improve patient flow, patient scheduling and staff scheduling.
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CommentPFI contracts: stick or twist?
‘Buying out’ a PFI contract would be a nuclear option – the better solution would be to simply manage it better
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CommentWhere next for England's referral-to-treatment waiting times?
Expect 20 week RTT waits and 4 million patients on the waiting list in 2017, rising to 21 week waits in 2018, and so on indefinitely until the NHS in England starts keeping up with demand
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Flickers in a pitch black tunnel
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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CommentHow to keep clinicians happy with IT: don’t mess up a data project
Managing data quality well adds up to a successful mutual investment between clinical and IT colleagues, with patients the winners
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Comment“Safe space” proposals could worsen relationships between patients and the NHS
Whilst protecting staff from inappropriate actions from bad employers is good, preventing patients from knowing the full truth would have serious consequences
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Keeping NHS England happy
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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CommentWhat's holding clinicians back from leadership roles?
The Nuffield Trust’s new survey shows that much is still to be done to encourage clinicians to pursue strategic positions
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CommentWhy record sharing for multidisciplinary care is vital in the NHS
It is vital for organisations to come together and develop a single, combined record for each patient, writes Luke Readman
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catchup: Hunt on NHS leadership, funding games and new waiting targets
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert BriefingWhat's new in care models: Should Staffordshire's £1.2bn contracts be abandoned?
The week in new care models It has been a huge week in new care models and health policy generally. There are at least three things I could have written about at length this week. Dudley! I gave a talk at the recent NHS Providers conference about great ...
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CommentCapital financing options are plentiful, STPs need to think differently
One common STP priority where the gap between ambition and reality seems particularly exposed is that of capital finance
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CommentHow evidence-informed health can tackle the supply and demand gap
The three ingredients which can ensure that evidence – with all its money-saving potential – is incorporated into NHS practice
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CommentHere are your referral to treatment trajectories for the next two years
The waiting time guru runs the published RTT data through a planning model and produces detailed trajectories for trusts and specialties across England
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LeaderUpdated: What Jeremy Hunt really thinks about NHS managers
There is a rule that all good journalists should abide by: if you get something wrong, correct and apologise, and do it quickly.