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CommentThe nation will have to live with ultra long waiting times while pressure persists
Ultra long waits will be difficult to solve until the NHS can keep up with demand. By Rob Findlay
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The Health and Care Bill must require action on health inequalities
Richard Murray calls for amending the Health and Care Bill to focus on health inequalities in its Triple Aim
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Letter from Scotland: social care reform proves challenging
The NHS proposals of the Scottish government has angered GPs and left managing bodies of community healthcare services grumbling, writes Henry Anderson
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Racial discrimination is present at all levels and all professions within the NHS
Understanding what is needed to turn the situation around after data from new research reveals, Black and minority ethnic staff are more than twice as likely to experience discrimination at work from a colleague
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Pritchard: honesty and ambition will mark my tenure as CEO
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the ‘honesty and ambition’ she hopes will define her tenure, and why she is concerned about how stretched services are even before winter begins.
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Julian Patterson: Government pledges to end shortage of NHS plans
No shortage of turkeys this Christmas as government steps up production of plans and policy documents
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Health Bill update: Small victories and missed opportunities
The Health and Care Bill will most definitely not bring the required openness and transparency that aids accountability but will likely plug the more glaring loopholes, argues Labour MP and former NHS manager Karin Smyth.
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Jackie Daniel: NHS leaders must stand up for planet
As leaders in healthcare we have an important responsibility to speak out and to take action in tackling the climate crisis, writes Dame Jackie Daniel
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Julian Patterson: Sir Trevor strikes back
GPs are up in arms and ambulance services are grinding to a halt. The situation calls for strong leadership…
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Agility: the missing ingredient for NHS productivity
While there are many ideas out there for improving NHS productivity, to really take advantage of them government and NHS leaders must invest in strengthening provider agility - building improvement capability, investing in digital infrastructure, and providing effective implementation support in central programmes, writes Anita Mehay
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Doing things differently to help GPs transform care and reduce demand
Matt Kearney on supporting primary care to do things differently and at scale as we emerge from the pandemic
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Greening the NHS is about more than net zero
Tackling climate change and its health effects will be a key matter of board governance and leadership. By Nicoline Poulsen and Toby Lewis
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Mental health faces the toughest three years in living memory
Sean Duggan highlights the challenges faced by the current mental health services, emphasising on requiring immediate fixing through preventive support and public health funding
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The silver lining of despair
James Dixon on how climate emergency action became a fundamental part of Newcastle Hospitals’ DNA — and what he’s doing to spread the word.
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Julian Patterson: Longstay tops the Blithering 20 again
The annual review of people who really matter at NHS Blithering, introduced by Martin Plackard, head of influencer communications
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The fatalism of leaders turns blind eye to vulnerable lives
The fatalism of response and the slowness of decision making in dealing with the pandemic is largely based on the assumption that nothing can be done to make others safer. By Charlotte Augst
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Private providers must be an integral part of integrated care systems
Lot of independent providers are already working in an integrated way, which the new ICSs can learn from, and the ultimate goal for all healthcare providers is patient safety and good patient outcomes. By Lou Patten and David Hare
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Staff redeployed to combat covid must be able to 'find closure'
A key component of the NHS response to the pandemic has been to reinforce acute and critical care capacity. This led in many cases to an unprecedented re-deployment of personnel from different care pathways into covid wards. A research project is now gathering evidence of the impact of working in ...
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Through collaboration, flexibility, and compassion we can retain our NHS staff
With over 5.6 million patients waiting for surgery and the winter flu season nearly upon us, there is an urgent need to keep our NHS staff happy, healthy and in work now, writes Dr Fiona Donald, president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
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Elective waits settle into steady deterioration
The temporary effects of the first covid shutdown have fed through, and waiting times are now on an upward trend.
