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Expert BriefingCarbon Copy: GB Energy’s first foray into the NHS
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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CommentThe NHS must manage its finances ethically
Iain Murray stresses the crucial role of NHS CFOs in navigating service sustainability, advocating for long-term planning, and ensuring ethical financial management
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CommentHow to solve the NHS's endemic waste problem
Giving staff a share of savings, enabling patients, and streamlining governance and capital processes, will help reduce the NHS’s endemic waste problem, says Sir John Oldham.
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LeaderStreeting is Lansley reborn
The government’s abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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CommentThe mythbuster: Consensus-driven strategy will doom the 10-Year Plan to failure
To make the 10-Year Plan a success, the NHS will need to move from consensus-driven strategy to strategy-driven consensus, writes Steve Black
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs in limbo and under pressure
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder
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CommentMinisters will learn the pain of legally rewiring the NHS
As Andrew Lansley’s policy adviser I learned the pain of legislating to rewire the NHS — the government should avoid it, says Bill Morgan.
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CommentThe regulation of NHS managers must be fair
Danny Mortimer discusses the need for clear, fair, and proportional regulation of NHS managers, emphasising accountability, professional standards, and transparency in order to improve leadership and protect public safety
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CommentMental health trusts must get tougher on smoking
Mental health trusts must strengthen smokefree policies to protect patients’ health and reduce inequalities, writes Sir Norman Lamb
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CommentNHS leaders must speak out against the government’s welfare reforms
The recently announced proposals to modify disability benefits will have disastrous effects on disabled people’s income, health and wellbeing, and might harm the NHS on multiple levels, writes Peter Reading
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Expert BriefingOn Call: The workforce issue the NHS cannot solve
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. You are receiving this first edition of On Call because you are signed up for our Patient Safety Watch newsletter. By HSJ workforce correspondent ...
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CommentThe NHS may have to prioritise the less sick to recover elective performance
Institute for Fiscal Studies research economists Olly Harvey-Rich and Max Warner analyse NHS elective reform strategies, highlighting the need for increased activity, demand reduction, and patient prioritisation to meet the 18-week waiting time target by 2029
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Less money for London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentHas the government’s health mission gone missing?
Sarah Woolnough critiques the government’s health mission, urging for clearer focus on broader health goals beyond the NHS, with steps to tackle health inequalities and prevent long-term fiscal challenges
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CommentNHS stroke care can be a postcode lottery
Innovative transformation of stroke services has the potential to save lives, prevent disability, and reduce spending, writes Deb Lowe
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The 10-Year Plan for data and tech revealed
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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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Do ICBs have a future?
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: Building a better Department of Health
NHS England has been abolished. But will the service be better off without it?
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LeaderWhat the abolition of NHSE means for the service’s leaders
A few hours after Sir Jim Mackey told trust CEOs that NHS England was to be abolished, its outgoing chair Richard Meddings held his leaving do in the same room.