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CommentNext week’s budget will offer little for the NHS
The Spring Statement comes just a few weeks before the NHS and social care levy is due to be introduced. Anita Charlesworth explores its possible impacts on finance and workforce
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Is the CQC giving the NHS an easy ride?
The purpose of Care Quality Commission ratings has been a hotly contested question since the creation of the four category classifications in the last decade. With only a single trust rated inadequate, despite pandemic pressures, is the regulator now letting the service off the hook?
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Ending the short termism in health inequality policy
Toby Lewis on what it will take to tackle the waste and harm caused by health inequalities
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More people are dying at home – here’s how ICSs can help
An increasing number of people have palliative care needs in their home – better integrated care, and sharing knowledge — is vital to getting them the support they need, writes Craig Duncan
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Only one in 10 trusts meeting 18-week elective target
Waiting times after referral have reached nine months for a diagnosis and decision, and 10 months for treatment. But the experience of individual patients varies enormously, says Rob Findlay
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Exclusive: They’re not selling our NHS
New evidence suggests that the long-awaited imminent privatisation of the NHS is an elaborate double bluff, writes Julian Patterson
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What Javid’s speech was really about
Built as a big reform speech, Sajid Javid’s recent speech widely left health policy commentators, who follow such reform talk closely, frustrated, bemused, underwhelmed or all three, writes Richard Sloggett
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How ICSs can help reverse the drop in stroke care quality
Integrated Stroke Delivery Networks and ICSs must work closely with PCNs to remove obstacles to case finding, diagnosis and management of hypertension and atrial fibrillation, writes Juliet Bouverie
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New access standards need the funding to make them meaningful
Harnessing the full potential of mental health access standards to improve patient outcomes? Not without government backing, writes Adrian James, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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Let ICSs decide how to deliver 'neighbourhood care'
Post Baroness Camilla Cavendish’s endorsement of the Buurtzorg model, Brendan Martin explains how this Dutch model will face the challenge of adapting to Britain’s institutional environment and should be replicated after learning how to achieve it
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What the NHS needs to hear from Javid tomorrow
Chris Hopson on the challenges created by the pandemic and the need of the hour for the NHS
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The NHS must acknowledge discrimination to effectively tackle the problem
Sadly, we live in a world where racism, misogyny, ableism and other forms of discrimination and prejudice exist. As an organisation that is rooted in and serves our community, we are not exempt from such discriminatory beliefs and behaviours, writes Solent Trust’s Anna Rowen
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Should the General Medical Services contract be scrapped?
In his 2019 independent review of the partnership model, Nigel Watson concluded that the ‘partnership model is not dead’. Almost three years, and a pandemic later, is it time for a rethink, ask Robert Ede, Dr David Landau and Sean Phillips
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Javid's impossible dream
Sajid Javid recently shared his vision of digital transformation with NHS heads of IT. Julian Patterson reproduces the health secretary’s speech word for word (more or less)
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Inexperienced managers need as much support as junior doctors
Policy makers should review the way management training and support is planned and delivered for both new and experienced NHS managers, write Bryan Jones and Joe Home
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HEE chief: We’ve been using the wrong tools for workforce planning
Dr Navina Evans, chief executive of Health Education England, explains how the NHS is meeting the challenge of workforce planning.
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Communities – not hospitals – are key to a thriving NHS
We need to make community-powered prevention a valued part of the system, writes Prof Donna Hall
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Achieving net carbon zero is a moral imperative for our trust
Transformation of any kind requires the right infrastructure to enable it to happen, and this is where the interface between sustainability and digital transformation is so important, writes Joe Harrison
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Respiratory care has got worse since it was made a priority in the long-term plan
The NHS has named respiratory as a priority area, but for the millions of people living with lung disease in the UK life is only getting harder. Sarah Woolnough says the NHS must use its long-term plan refresh to finally start giving people with lung conditions the recognition, care and ...
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Sir Trevor Longstay: Seven essential qualities of leadership
One of the greatest and most humble leaders in the NHS shares his leadership secrets with Julian Patterson
