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Comment‘University’ hospitals should be expected to raise their game on clinical trials
Matthew Swindells and Dr Harpreet Sood highlight four interventions that together could contribute in creating an innovative and progressive economic landscape for life sciences
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'Working with Stonewall is no longer compatible with NHS values'
Former NHS trust chief executive Kate Grimes shares her three-fold concerns over Stonewall.
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The NHS' five million plus elective waiting list analysed
The post covid recovery continues, and waiting time pressures are building.
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NHS Digital boss: Why our delayed patient data sharing plan must go on
Simon Bolton, interim chief executive of NHS Digital, explains why its controversial new GP data sharing scheme is the right thing to do, and why it has now been delayed by two months.
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Letter from Scotland: A more generous social care system
In his regular dispatch from north of the border Henry Anderson discusses the obstacles to the pledge of making social care free at the point of use in Scotland
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Let's create a NICE for workforce
Future proofing the workforce needs to go beyond regulating titles protected in law, writes Elaine Maxwell
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Commissioning of addiction services by councils has failed
Our analysis of data shows that commissioning of addictions services by cash starved local authorities has failed experiment, argue Daniel Poulter, Jonathon Foster and Emily Finch.
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Cowper’s Cut: Severed but not broken
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Ethnicity coding is poor across the NHS
New research reveals hospital datasets that show coding of ethnic groups is incomplete, with an excessive and growing proportion of patients having ethnicity recorded as “not known”, “not stated” or “other”, which impedes reliable analyses. By Sarah Scobie
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The covid vaccine approach could cut other race inequalities in health
If we can take the lessons from covid and apply them with the discipline and energy of the vaccination campaign, we can make rapid improvements in life expectancy and rapidly reduce inequalities, says Shahed Ahmad
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Provider collaboratives can be ‘engine room of transformation’ in ICS
Saffron Cordery shares her insights on the importance of provider collaboration and its benefits to patients, as NHS Providers launches a new project on them.
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Don’t forget the people behind the waiting list stats
Norman McKinley highlights the impact of long waiting times on patients and the toll it will take on their health, if not dealt with.
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Cowper’s Cut: “Tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die”
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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Trust CEO: my cancer diagnosis has given me a new perspective on patient care
Yvonne Ormston shares her experience of dealing with covid as the CEO of Gateshead Health FT and her own cancer journey during the pandemic
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Our ICS promises partners they will own what they create
Helen Hirst discusses the approach adopted to design the ICS and ICPs, and manage the changes to clinical commissioning framework for serving local communities
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Cowper’s Cut: Waiting for The People’s Dominic
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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You can’t legislate for a collaborative culture
Greater Manchester has been designing a model that builds on the strong partnership that has already taken place at a city-region level and at place but continues to address challenges, writes Sir Richard Leese
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Modern surgery is harming surgeons, the NHS must invest in robots or see them quit
CEO of Milton Keynes University Hospital, Professor Joe Harrison, explains why UK surgeons need greater tech support now
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The NHS and its partners must 'take risks' to improve care for children
For healthcare to truly improve the overall outcomes of children and young people health issues must be addressed holistically alongside factors like safety, wellbeing, and access to education, training and skills. By Rukshana Kapasi
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Cowper’s Cut: Inquiring minds and the World King’s gambit
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
