All Comment articles – Page 34
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CommentThink twice about talking to patients, doctors told
The language used by doctors is disempowering and patronising for patients, who may not be clever enough to understand what’s going on, writes Julian Patterson
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CommentThree lessons for building our future hospitals
Creating human-centred spaces that work alongside health professionals can ensure they deliver the art of care as well as the science of treatment, writes Lord Ajay Kakkar
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CommentLost in time at an NHS imagineering session
As Blithering’s head of transformation plans a Big Conversation, Dr David Rummage uncovers devastating news of a rival scheme. Julian Patterson reports from the scene
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CommentMake publishing NHS workforce planning forecasts a legal duty
Despite workforce being the biggest challenge facing the health service, the Health and Care Bill provides no clarity on the numbers of staff this country needs, says Andrew Goddard
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CommentThe money for the fight against covid is drying up
If the NHS is going to emerge from the next 12 months in robust shape, politicians and senior leaders need to make the hard choices and back managers who are facing some very tough decisions, says Jon Restell
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CommentUrgent focus needed on backlogs in children and young people’s services
We need a coordinated effort, funding and support to help community providers address backlogs of care across community services for children and young people, write Daniel Reynolds and Miriam Deakin
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CommentUnderlying pressure still rising on elective waiting times
Although elective headline waiting times fell slightly in February, both the waiting list and the wait to diagnosis went up, writes Rob Findlay
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CommentMaking virtue part of everyone’s job
A new unit will professionalise virtue-signalling and oversee a national humility strategy, reports Julian Patterson
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CommentHow bad is burnout in the NHS?
For the first time, the 2021 NHS Staff Survey included a set of questions specifically designed to measure workplace burnout and the results are revealing, writes Chris Graham, chief executive of Picker Institute Europe
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CommentMake local NHS charities your allies in the push for service recovery
The NHS and health voluntary sector should unite to provide the extra support that staff and the health service need as they recover from the impact of the pandemic, writes Ellie Orton
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CommentSpeaking truth to Twitter: A brief guide to leaderism
Leaders are a dying breed, but the ever-resourceful NHS has come up with a plan to replace them. We’re all leaderists now, writes Julian Patterson
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CommentWhat do health inequalities mean for trust leaders?
While health inequalities are not a new product of the pandemic, Leanora Volpe explains how covid-19’s impact on marginalised communities has given impetus to a coordinated, united effort to narrow the gap in access to, experience of, and outcomes from healthcare services, and what trust leadership’s role is in this.
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Comment‘Get your team back to the frontline’: an open letter to the new NHSE chair
In an open letter to NHS England chair Richard Meddings, Sir Sam Everington outlines tips to improve the performance of the NHS
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CommentHow the NHS can help tackle the UK’s skills gap
The skills gap in the UK is widening, affecting more than just recruitment. However, University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Trust has found T Levels to be an ideal tool in helping to tackle this issue, writes Ray Olive
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CommentThe NHS is still not learning from past mistakes in maternity
In the light of the Ockenden report, James Titcombe and Nadine Montgomery share their stories of maternity care failings and what is not yet being done to prevent them happening again.
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CommentThe 'John Lewis' model can help save general practice
An employee ownership trusts model offered as a choice, could help stabilise an increasingly fragile general practice ecosystem, write Tim Harrison, James Morrow and Stefan Scholtes
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CommentExclusive: NHS unveils technology revolution
The NHS has solved the problems of urgent care demand and staffing at a stroke with the news that it is to roll out artificial intelligence (AI) software to predict A&E attendance, writes Olaf Priol.
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CommentProgress on reducing smoking during pregnancy has stalled, here’s what must be done
Reducing the number of women who smoked during pregnancy was a priority area in the government’s 2017 Tobacco Control Plan but as the five-year deadline approaches, progress has stalled. Asthma + Lung UK’s CEO Sarah Woolnough says the government must redouble its efforts to ensure that every child gets a ...
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CommentTrusts must resolve tensions between local and regional priorities as reforms bite
Georgia Butterworth writes about place-based working and the ingredients for success
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Comment'Who’s in charge?' is the wrong question
Martin Plackard, head of accountable communications and shared visions at NHS Blithering, argues that integrated care systems are much simpler than we think