All Comment articles – Page 122
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CommentHow to handle the ticking pension time bomb
Paul Healy on what can be done to manage the additional costs of reforming public sector pensions
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CommentThe NHS is getting waiting times management wrong
It sounds sensible to book patients in before they breach the target – but in practice it is unfair, unsafe, and keeps waiting times on the brink of failure. Rob Findlay writes about a better way
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CommentWhat Brexit would really mean for the NHS
Is there substance to cancer specialist Angus Dalgleish’s claim that the NHS could break down due to health tourism?
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CommentAndrew Lansley: Devolution does not reverse the Health Act
Devolution may have failed in New Labour’s hands but it can succeed with a different strategy and minset
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CommentSweet drinks tax has a sour aftertaste for the chancellor
Osborne’s latest headline-grabber shows a politician truly cannot win
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CommentThe digital age can take the doctor-patient dynamic into a new era
Giving patients online access to their GP record helps redefine the relationship
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CommentAnalysis: This budget could have a nasty sting in the tail for health
At first glance, today’s budget did little to change the outlook for NHS funding in the coming years.
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CommentBiomedical engineering does not deserve a place in the shadows
Biomedical engineers bring great value to the NHS and it’s time we understood and appreciated their contribution, writes Helen Meese
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CommentThe real provider sector deficit is nearer £4bn than £3bn
We face a choice for 2018-19 and 2019-20 of investing more in the NHS in those years or reducing the service we provide to meet the budget available, Chris Hopson writes
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CommentHow vanguards are connecting people to non-medical sources of support
The new care model vanguards are already making great strides in supporting people by connecting them to non-medical help, Samantha Jones writes
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CommentHow NICE has been a 'terrible beauty'
The National Institute for Health and Care Exellence has been doing the balancing act despite sticking to its cost effective agenda, Nick Timmins writes
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CommentWhy we should value finance professionals
Non-clinical workers may not directly save lives, but they provide essential support to clinicians who do
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CommentPlanning a hospital for constant capacity - a worked example
Common sense is as important as planning when it comes to defeating expensive peaks and troughs of capacity
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CommentThe fault is not in tendering but in how the NHS goes about it
The collapse of UnitingCare is symptomatic of the NHS’s inexperience in tendering and a legacy of local contracting arguments
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CommentGeneral practice may have only five years to live
Government must give GPs the financial support and freedom to identify the local solutions they require
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CommentWaiting list has grown by more than 12pc year on year
Officially, England only just missed the 18 week target. Unofficially things were much worse because of non-reporting trusts. What is most worrying is that the waiting list has grown by over 12 per cent year on year, Rob Findlay explains.
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CommentThe NHS is finally taking patient safety seriously
Policy developments indicate the health service is belatedly moving in the right direction on keeping the public safe
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CommentWhy we must improve reporting rates of medical errors now
Innovative ways of reporting and analysing medical errors will go a long way to improving patient safety, writes Lord Ara Darzi
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CommentContract ceasefire would allow us to evaluate safety and funding
Phil Hammond suggests a way forward in the junior doctors’ dispute
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CommentThe NHS's overseas recruits need our help to succeed
The influx of EU doctors and nurses to plug NHS staffing gaps is doomed to failure without the right support