Comment archive – Page 61
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Provider-led ‘place’ perfection
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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‘Warm hubs’ may potentially save lives this winter
Claire Kennedy and Simon Morioka discuss the importance of bringing people together to share resources and the need to look beyond traditional planning, to control the impact of the coming winter
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The next best thing to a plan
The NHS faces the toughest winter on record. With a renewed promise of support from national leaders, integrated care systems now have even more to worry about, writes Julian Patterson
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: A summer of ‘pressure, stress and anxiety’
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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Promoting people’s skills in the new normal
Dean Royles highlights the importance of soft skills in people professionals, managers and union reps, especially during and after the crisis conditions emerging from covid
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: What’s the point of the NHSE winter plan?
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 Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Vulnerable mothers falling through the cracks
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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Elective waits continued to worsen in June
Growing underlying pressures are coming into conflict with the headline targets.
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Do you have what it takes to be a leader?
Take this simple test to find out. Score one point for every word or phrase that strikes you as nonsense in these extracts from NHS Blithering ICS board papers. Find out what your score means at the end. Key metrics by Julian Patterson
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Progress on mental health is still fragile, ICSs must not let it slip
With 1.5 million people waiting for mental health treatment and no additional investment from the covid recovery funding, integrated care systems must now take the lead in delivering parity for people with mental health problems, writes outgoing MIND chief executive Paul Farmer.
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What the NHS needs from the winter plan
With NHS England’s winter plan due in a few days, Dr Layla McCay outlines the steps that must be taken to minimise patient harm and overcome current challenges, all while taking the present political paralysis into account.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: No time to waste
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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Involving disabled people in service design is financially shrewd
Deborah Fenney highlights the importance of including people with a disability in the health and care service design to help improve access and experience
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: One of the worst examples of NHS procurement
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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It’s time to hit the worried well where it hurts
In his bid for leadership of the Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak has proposed fining patients who miss appointments, but his ideas don’t go far enough, writes Julian Patterson
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The scandal of 10,000 NHS SOSR dismissals
Narinder Kapur emphasises on the need for an urgent inquiry, into how many of the 10,000 NHS SOSR dismissals were on the basis of ‘Kangaroo Courts’, and how many involved vulnerable groups such as whistleblowers and minority ethnic staff
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Leaders’ ‘moral’ duty on the cost of living crisis
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 Briefing
Recovery Watch: NHS England’s £2bn dilemma
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 finance correspondent Henry Anderson
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Preventing another Winterbourne View
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 Briefing
North by North West: GPs angered as ‘place’ maps redrawn
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.