Comment archive – Page 60
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CommentOptometry has a critical part to play in tackling the NHS backlog
Community optometrists can provide an immediate solution to the backlog in hospital eye departments, but only if there is a sustained NHS commitment towards true integration into the primary healthcare family, writes Adam Sampson
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will ‘ICS first’ survive the Coffey era?
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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CommentEnglish waiting list nears 7 million
The wait for diagnosis and decision is rising much faster than the wait for treatment.
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CommentHas the growth in medical consultants outstripped need?
The specialty reports reference international benchmarking data to argue the need for more of everyone, illustrates Dr Nadeem Moghal
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Expert BriefingHospital bosses welcome new health secretary's pledge to tackle ambulance delays
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe uncomfortable truth about the CQC
An employment tribunal has just found the Care Quality Commission guilty of unfairly dismissing a whistleblower. Roger Kline examines the case and is implications.
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Expert BriefingNHSE’s federated data platform explained
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentJohnson’s government: One step forward for mental health, too many steps back
An informed and ambitious plan could positively change the way Britain’s mental health system works from top to bottom. Paul Farmer explores how.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Green shoots from city’s £1.6bn integration overhaul
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentReading the warning signs
It’s the Blithering ICS board meeting. The NHS is lurching from crisis to disaster. Will David Rummage become its first victim? Martin Plackard hopes so. Minutes by Julian Patterson
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CommentHow to close the Goldacre data analysis gap
Andi Orlowski shines light on the glaring need for the NHS to incorporate data and analysis to transform care and outcomes for patients and service users
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: A stop-gap with questionable ethics
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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CommentThe NHS's approach to reducing elective waiting times is unlikely to work
Trying to eliminate cohorts of waiting list patients is too simplistic says Rob Findlay
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: PIFU progress revealed in leaked report
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the biggest 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: The NHS is delivering care from the dark ages
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: Full force Flory
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentPM Truss will demand cuts in ‘NHS bureaucracy’
We are mercifully nearly at the end. In a few days, we will know who will replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. And unless the polls are completely wrong, that person will be Liz Truss. But during what has felt a long campaign with more heat than light what might ...
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CommentThe Truss manifesto
The prime minister-in-waiting, Liz Truss, has been talking to NHS leaders about tough choices and the voices in her head. Julian Patterson has obtained a transcript.
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CommentNHS health workforce crisis: The challenging opportunities in flexible working
The right to flexible working should be available to all NHS staff, supported by policies and decision-making that are equitable across services, specialties and organisations, writes Dr Ahmed Seedat
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Cyber attack reverberates around the NHS
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.