Comment archive – Page 51
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CommentThe NHS can lead the UK’s green economy
With innovative treatments powered by renewable energy, and with digitally enabled services connecting us with patients wherever they are, we can grow the healthcare economy and high skill jobs using a fraction of the carbon, writes Luke O’Shea
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: New roles, same problems
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Patients removed from waiting list under divisive new rules
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Reforms spark fears over impact on workforce
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance, and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Liverpool promises to change
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentWe must tackle bias and poor quality in NHS recording of ethnicity
Although coverage of ethnicity recording has improved over time, the quality of coding can be variable, poor, and shows evidence of systematic bias, writes Veena Raleigh
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CommentNHS reform: 'how hard can it be?'
Three blokes in a pub are fixing the NHS. Julian Patterson is taking notes in the corner with a pint of mild
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CommentGetting integration to work: is it time to stop throwing policy at the problem?
Integration fails to succeed because working cultures in the NHS and social care haven’t changed to support collaboration, say Helen Buckingham and Sarah Reed.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Ministers hold ICSs’ feet to the fire
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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CommentAction needed as A&Es overflow with patients in severe dental distress
NHS England must encourage those with dental expertise to join local systems, including by assisting ICSs with recruitment, so that institutional commissioning knowledge and experience are not lost when commissioning responsibilities are transferred, writes Matthew Taylor.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Priced out of the market
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentA bleak picture for babies and young children
Institute of Health Visiting executive director Alison Morton warns national policy has developed a “baby blind spot” amid the NHS crisis, with many young children missing out on government’s promise of the “best start in life”, and calls for a shift towards prevention and early intervention
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Tech chiefs pin hopes on NHS App
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 me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Patient leadership in the drug licensing and pricing game
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 new monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The crisis of an understaffed NHS
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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CommentGovernment tells NHS managers: ‘Waste money and you’ll go to prison’
As the NHS plunges deeper into crisis, the government is taking firm action against those responsible, reports Julian Patterson
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CommentJust discharging more patients from hospital will not fix the NHS’s problems
Karen Middleton writes in response to the government’s announcement that it will buy beds in care homes
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: More NHS staff are quitting than ever before
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: NHSE steps up 78-week drive as March deadline looms
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.