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CommentA willingness to take risks is key to tackling the emergency care crisis
To reduce overall harm and risk from ambulance delays to patients across the system and not just those in one’s direct care, clinicians need to balance the risk and adapt their approach to decisions for patients and systems, writes Benjamin Owens
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How digital technology is benefiting community health services
Community providers’ flexible, community-based model of service provision is well-suited to testing small-scale innovations in digital. By Andrew Ridley
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Combating long covid will take a marathon effort
With over one million people thought to be suffering from long-term symptoms after a covid infection, the NHS needs funding for research into treatments and specialist staff so people with long covid can access the help they so desperately need, writes Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma UK and the British ...
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Patient leadership: where are we now?
An open letter to Rosamund Snow and Michael Seres, by David Gilbert
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How to make sure good analysts really can 'save more lives than a good anaesthetist'
When I think of ‘good analysts’ I picture someone striving to ‘improve decision quality’ for system leaders. Such good analysts really can save lives, writes Andi Orlowski
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Julian Patterson: Longstay's dramatic return
Independent consultant to lead far-reaching leadership and IT review
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Pooling NHS and social care budgets needs more thought
In considering a big leap towards pooled budgets, ministers may trigger a huge revolution in structures whose cost in disruption and in political capital may never be repaid by results, argues Nigel Edwards.
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We won’t have genuine integration without inclusive integrated care boards
Without the integrated care boards, there is a real risk that we lose the benefits of integration and that we exclude the voice for innovative organisations, such as social enterprises, which are able to challenge the status quo, writes Jo Pritchard
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Covid has been ‘devastating’ for lung cancer diagnosis
We need to act collectively and urgently to rebuild and recover from the consequences of the pandemic on lung cancer and get back on track to deliver a step change in lung cancer outcomes. By Professor Robert Rintoul
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Is integration everyone’s problem but no one’s responsibility?
Matthew Taylor sets out five steps which could help bring together local responsibility for heath and social care.
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Why we need to trigger ‘Plan B’ for covid now
The government should now trigger covid “Plan B” ahead of winter, if we are to minimise excess deaths from both covid and non-covid causes, writes public health director Dominic Harrison.
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We need to make health inequalities everyone’s business
The NHS has to prioritise reducing inequalities in health, but the most important solutions are not always in its gift, write Stephen Bradley and Tom Gardiner
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What are the reasons for high intensity A&E use?
To take action means looking out for people who are frequently attending anywhere in the health and care system, not just A&E, and referring them to dedicated services. By Julia Munro
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The future of cancer screening
Taking a glimpse into the possible future of cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment in the UK and globally, by Sir Harpal Kumar
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Exclusive: Sir Trevor Longstay to stand down
System leader’s departure creates career-defining opportunity as ICS teeters on the brink of success, writes Julian Patterson
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Continuing healthcare is failing those with dementia
For anyone who is living with dementia, with the condition’s progressive nature and potential to lead to spiralling care costs, NHS continuing healthcare can be a lifeline, writes Dr Hilda Hayo
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The NHS' system for paying nurses needs an overhaul
Research shows that the seven-year public-sector pay cap over the last decade saw nurses’ earnings fall significantly, by 5 per cent after we factor in consumer price inflation, writes Nihar Shembavnekar
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A fully funded workforce plan is an ‘absolute priority’
Staffing is the biggest challenge currently facing the NHS. Ensuring that people know they are valued and being invested in is key to any workforce initiative, whether it is intended to address issues in the short, medium, or long-term, writes Sarah White, policy advisor at NHS Providers
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Tackling the forgotten backlogs caused by the pandemic
Susan Mitchell on the legacy of delayed care which is very much evident for people with dementia
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Deceased NHS staff called on to do their part
The government is planning to bring the dead out of retirement in an audacious bid to solve the workforce crisis, writes Julian Patterson
