All Comment articles – Page 55
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Bracing times and the vaccination bounce
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentFining NHS trusts is a pointless gesture
Peter Carter points out better ways need to be constructed than prosecuting NHS trusts and spending money on legal costs as means of improving standards and eliminating poor practice
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CommentThe non-covid dividends from Test and Trace
The UK’s covid testing work offers several promising — and dramatic — longer term dividends for public health and healthcare, says Axel Heitmueller, who oversaw developments at NHS Test and Trace.
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CommentAnalysis: the long road to restoring elective care performance
How bad will elective waiting times get? And what will we need to do about it? Rob Findlay crunches the numbers.
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CommentGovernment should pick someone independent, not compliant, to replace Stevens
The government has just 12 weeks to make one of its most important appointments — a replacement for Sir Simon Stevens, writes Richard Sloggett.
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CommentSir Simon Stevens: a champion for race equality
Yvonne Coghill gives a befitting tribute to the outgoing NHS England chief, especially for his work around equality in the health service
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CommentThe three pandemics
We need the contribution of millions of people as volunteers and supporters to handle the crises in the NHS, writes Patricia Hewitt
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CommentWhat Stevens’ successor needs to bring to the table
Sir Simon Stevens’ time as NHS England chief has shown us the service needs a different kind of leadership which places trust in the people who do the caring, says Charlotte Augst
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CommentHSIB should investigate staff well-being as well as patient safety
The NHS has been plagued by failures to learn lessons relating to patient safety and also by neglect of issues related to staff wellbeing. We offer two proposals to address this issue – that the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch broadens its remit to investigate adverse events relating to staff wellbeing, ...
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Honesty on NHS responsibility for care home deaths
In his regular dispatch from north of the border Henry Anderson discusses Scotland’s care home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Exit Sir Simon Stevens
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentWe can now prevent mental ill-health in the same way we fight cancer
A cutting-edge child and adolescent mental health centre hopes to help prevent young people from experiencing mental health problems. By Sir Norman Lamb
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CommentDissent is too often mistaken for disloyalty in the NHS
System leadership teams will need to build a culture where dissent is not only welcomed but is regarded as an obligation and where everything is up for constructive challenge, writes John Coutts
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CommentNHS must take inflammatory bowel disease seriously
A clear government strategy is needed to reduce the burden of IBD on the NHS
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Sieve Administration
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentHow to clear the air of the ‘rotten stink’ surrounding NHS lobbying
The current regulatory system is widely acknowledged as being unfit for purpose, relying as it does upon the disclosure by only some commercial lobbyists of only some of their work for only some of their clients, but leaving whole sectors of the lobbying community unregulated, unregistered and undeclared, writes Chris ...
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CommentFive priority areas for scrutiny in the forthcoming Health Bill
Chris Hopson outlines five key concerns that should be addressed in the upcoming health and care bill to avoid potential pitfalls
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Easy sleazy
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentEnglish NHS breaches 52 weeks
Waiting times across England as a whole have now breached 52 weeks. The silver lining is that, in a couple of months, the published data will be much improved: extending up to 104 weeks with mental health waits itemised. By Rob Findlay
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CommentStudy reveals overly negative misperceptions people hold about the NHS
Professor Bobby Duffy and Charles Tallack touch upon certain misperceptions people have of the NHS’ performance, in a study conducted by King’s College London