Comment archive – Page 9
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Your Christmas gift problems solved
You’ve worked tirelessly every day until well into the late afternoon on collaboration, integration and improvement-style projects. Your ICB has recognised your commitment by giving you the whole of December off to go Christmas shopping. Before the CEO changes her mind to avert a PR disaster, what are you going ...
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The NHS is missing out on medtech benefits
The NHS could benefit from a surge of innovation if it’s given greater flexibility to adopt new technologies, writes Michael Watts
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Dying people are being failed by the NHS's approach to sharing information
Usha Grieve explains how in the realm of digital health data, the spotlight on the Federated Data Platform overshadows the sluggish progress in enhancing electronic end-of-life records, hindering meaningful patient-centric change and necessitating urgent action
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NHS productivity – does ophthalmology have an answer?
David Hare writes how ophthalmology’s 15 per cent activity boost and reduced wait times exemplify NHS productivity, with the independent sector delivering 160 per cent more care, emphasising the potential for specialisation and patient flow improvements as vital lessons for broader health system gains
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Expert Briefing
Carbon Copy: Why the NHS still buys diesel ambulances
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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The NHS needs a new and improved PFI programme
Matthew Custance explains how amid the NHS infrastructure crisis, revisiting private finance initiative funding addresses the £30bn New Hospital Programme, but it necessitates a revamped approach considering past pitfalls and reforms
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Expert Briefing
ImPatient: Small steps to big change
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 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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Daily Insight
The mythbuster: Hospital drugs spend is rising steeply and we need to know why
Despite the NHS’s substantial £20bn annual expenditure on drugs and devices, transparency issues persist in understanding hospital medicine budgets, hindering effective analysis and improvement efforts in the face of evolving pharmaceutical pricing agreements, writes Steve Black
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Being candid about candour
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Without the FDP we cannot know the value of NHS services
Sir Muir Gray underscores the crucial role Federated Data Platforms plays in assessing spending, outcomes, and ensuring equitable healthcare delivery
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Blithering backs Streeting
Welcome to the latest edition of the Blithering ICB newsletter, a round-up of all the latest news from the country’s most challenged health economy.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The migration surge helped social care – but not enough
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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Government approach to combating delayed discharge in not fit for purpose
Local health and care systems lack a shared understanding of the causes of hospital discharge delays in their area and of the best ways of tackling them, says a report from The King’s Fund.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Treat it like covid
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Collaboration must not be pushed to the sidelines
NHS Confederation, the Health Foundation, and Q community unite to propel health and care systems towards impactful improvement, fostering collaboration, innovation, and peer learning across the UK, write co-authors Matthew Taylor and Penny Pereira
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Why trusts should think twice about big EPR deployments
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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How to break the logjam preventing change
Charlotte Augst and Paul Corrigan explore the stark reality of the current healthcare challenges, dissecting policy failures, and proposing an approach to reshape patient-professional interactions for sustainable change in the NHS
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Trusts prepare for fight over maternity
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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The mythbuster: The real problems with the FDP are not its cost or threat to data security
The real issue with the Federated Data Platform is not its price tag or data security, but the magical expectation the NHS has for the programme, writes Steve Black
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Improving patient experience needn’t cost the earth
Access to care continues to be the biggest concern reported by the public to Healthwatch. Still, William Pett, head of policy, Public Affairs and Research at Healthwatch England, argues that getting the small things right could make a big difference