Comment archive – Page 239
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CommentWhere does the spending review leave social care?
The short termist ‘hotpotch’ of measures taken by the government does nothing to stem the growing pressures on social care
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CommentIs Southern Health a one-off? Ministers have no way of knowing
The leaked Southern Health review exposed a gap of knowledge about quality of care. Shaun Lintern asks whether the problem is limited to only one trust
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CommentMove patient and public involvement from the margins to the mainstream
The benefits of improved engagement in healthcare
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CommentMichael White: Osborne’s ‘magic sofa’ does not sit comfortably
The chancellor found cash for the NHS down the back of the settee, but cuts to social care may come back to haunt him
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CommentEngland breaches 18 week target
If you take non-reporting trusts into account, it looks like the English NHS breached 18 weeks in October – for the first time since the target was originally achieved in January 2012
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CommentThe NHS must stop victimising bereaved families
Bereaved families of systemic failure-related deaths have far too often become second victims, due to the NHS’s misguided secrecy and focus on reputation management, writes Shaun Lintern
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CommentEmpowering BME with an NHS Leadership Academy programme
Take inspiration from the Ready Now programme
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CommentGive out student loans to make nursing an attractive career
Number of nurses to be increased
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CommentUrgent care services are overstretched – we need to fund the cancer strategy now
Rising demand for support after treatment must be met with funding
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CommentPut NHS finances on the front line
The importance of clinical engagement to delivering better value
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CommentLord Prior: Two ways to help deliver our promise of transformation
There is huge potential to do things better in the NHS - and that is crucial if we are to achieve the care system envisaged in the Five Year Forward View, says Lord Prior
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CommentVideo: Women Leaders network discuss positive action
The second meeting of HSJ Women Leaders’ network saw a focus on discussion about targets and whether it was needed to bring about fair representation of women on NHS leadership boards.
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Let's push for gender equality now
Just as we have a workforce equality standard for race in the NHS, could we not have one for gender, Adele Waters asks
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CommentThe Cambridgeshire contract fiasco must be explained
It is troubling that neither commissioner nor provider has been able to explain the rapid collapse of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s £800m older people’s services contract, writes David Williams
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CommentVanguards in action
The key to success of the new care models is strong partnerships involving health, social care and others
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CommentThe status quo should not be an option for CCGs
Why CCGs need a change of direction if they are to truly succeed
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CommentEvaluating the first place-based programmes for systems leadership
A new evidence base shows the impact that systems leadership is having
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CommentBeware false dawns: this will be the NHS's toughest decade
Through this decade of austerity, health will have been protected relative to other government departments. But huge challenges remain for the NHS, says Anita Charlesworth
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Comment'Knife, life and wife': old stereotypes persist in surgery
So-called banter is an everyday reality for female surgeons, and could be keeping more women out of the specialty