Comment archive – Page 214
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Are we ready for a new relationship with patients?
A paradigm shift towards empowerment is needed in the way we involve patients in their own care by seeing things from their perspective
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Expert Briefing
What’s new in care models: The NHS’s first accountable care organisation?
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View
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How to work out your waiting time trajectories accurately
Long-wait trajectories are easy to ask for, and surprisingly hard to calculate. But with a skilful model and a bit of luck, you could achieve precision planning for your trajectories. In this longer read we go deep into the detail
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How to get serious about prevention in the NHS
The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Optimal Value Pathway, a major new resource for CCGs, will support clinicians and commissioners to recognise and harvest low hanging fruit for prevention, while helping to address both the wellbeing and the quality gaps in the NHS.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Treasury tightens grip, and junior doctors lose legal challenge
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert Briefing
Lintern’s Risk Register: Going, going but not yet gone
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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The planning guidance: Christmas come early or winter of discontent?
While early publication of the planning guidance is helpful, there is much to be done about fulfilling competing demands with stretched resources
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: A unit closed after a visit from the CQC
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: More STPs, fewer CCGs
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: NHS finance Battleships
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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The latest planning guidance gets perilously close to being useful
Despite first impressions, this year’s planning guidance is a welcome step away from the traditional financially led approach
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Expert Briefing
What's new in care models: MCPs don't just need assurance - they need a failure regime
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View. By integration reporter David Williams.
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'Eat less, move more' has failed – now it's time to talk
NICE now recognises that talking therapies can succeed where traditional anti-obesity strategies have failed
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Baby STPs
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Unprecedented planning guidance and CCG mergers
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert Briefing
Deep South: Tributes to a GP leader
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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People are at the heart of transformation
Integrated data from the population’s use of services and workforce can help systems monitor response to the needs of the people and enhance improvement
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For integration to work, local authorities must be equal partners in STPs
Sustainability and transformation plans can help create a coherent system out of the existing muddle of local government and NHS structures
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Bringing together innovation and clinical governance
Easing pressure on hospital and GP services is central to the work of the New Care Models Programme, with the prevention of ill-health top of the list
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Now is the (earlier than usual) winter of our discontent
As talk hots up of old-school NHS disasters, thankfully Hodge’s memoirs and Labour’s woes provide distractions