Comment archive – Page 8
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Emergence of convergence
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 senior correspondent Nicholas Carding. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Comment
The rationing of cancer care must be addressed
Amid positive strides in addressing oncology capacity challenges, the new health secretary must now commit to sustained action, clear funding, and strategic technology integration for lasting improvements in cancer care, writes Tom Roques
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: New year, same story?
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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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: The NHS has a management, not a funding, problem
Steve Black emphasises that the NHS’s future hinges on addressing organisational and cultural barriers to productivity, not just budget constraints
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Comment
ICBs will not improve collaboration if they also try to be performance managers
Sara Gariban describes three essentials to ensure trust leaders make system working a success and thus build efficient, resilient and responsive services
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Making staff feel valued is a patient safety imperative
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Comment
The 'two minute' NHSE director and other stories from 2024
It’s that time when all newspapers fill space with new year predictions. Not to be outdone, Julian Patterson imagines the headlines you can look forward to in the next 12 months
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The NHS must become proactively 'anti-racist'
Amid rising awareness of racial health disparities, the authors examine healthcare organisations’ initiatives against racism, spotlighting efforts in diversity, leadership, and continual evaluation for enduring impact
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Comment
How Healthwatch helps the NHS engage with communities
As 2024 begins, Louise Ansari, CEO at Healthwatch England, highlights some of the projects that made a difference for patients last year while showing the vital role of local action. We need to hear more of such examples in the new year.
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Comment
Sickle cell should be classified as a long-term condition
The historic treatment of sickle cell patients is often cited as a prime example of the neglect shown towards the Black community, with patients often feeling misunderstood, stigmatised and ignored, writes Pippa Nightingale
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Comment
GPs cannot avoid modernisation
GPs face overwhelming workloads, hindered by administrative burdens and inadequate resources. Collaborative digital transformation is imperative to ensure sustainable, patient-centric care and the survival of general practice, writes Jay Verma
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: Let’s start the new year with a positive message about what the NHS can improve
Innovative surgical practices can significantly enhance NHS efficiency and productivity, but entrenched resistance and systemic challenges hinder widespread adoption. Overcoming obstacles is crucial for lasting improvement, writes Steve Black
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Comment
Increased CQC fees for ICBs threaten drive to improve care
To ensure system assessments add value and help improve care quality, the CQC should rethink the assessment process and consider two alternatives, writes Sarah Walter
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
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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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Actually, we’ve coped well
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: 12-hour trolley waits an ‘acceptable compromise’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Comment
Let local people decide on the public health measures the NHS should invest in
Jessica Studdert explains how community-driven health initiatives in deprived areas, funded by the Big Local programme, not only demonstrate significant preventive benefits but also reduce demand on NHS services.
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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: The NHS should stop asking for bailouts
What the NHS needs is not more winter bailouts but a more consistent and sustained plan to tackle its underlying problems, writes Steve Black
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Comment
Give more prescribing and referral rights to those working in the community
Government action is crucial to enhancing primary and community care integration, and to addressing structural, funding, data sharing, and training challenges to deliver a patient-centric, sustainable health service, writes Baroness Pitkeathley
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Comment
Waiting lists and times (probably) fall, at last
The falling waits for diagnosis and decision are especially welcome