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CommentThe American Healthcare Act decoded
Alice Murray and Saira Ghafur on the changes that the American Healthcare Act seeks to bring in US healthcare
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CommentIs the NHS suffocating in its own froth?
For greater operational efficiency we must learn to focus less on pointless distractions and more on bite-sized, everyday win-wins, writes Paula Goode
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CommentThe stars are now aligning for a new Health and Care Act
Rather than using legislation to create new structures from the top down, this time it would be changing rules around established organisations
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CommentRight people in the right place and time is core to efficiency
The only way to protect consultants and preserve their services is to ensure absolute transparency in consulting staffing arrangements
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CommentMaking innovation meaningful for true advances in healthcare
Faster procedures with cross-specialty capabilities are vital to greater efficiency in the NHS, writes Dirk Vananderoye
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CommentThe future of the NHS demands hard questions
The health service of the 21st century needs to be more responsive to patients’ needs – mere financial efficiency is not enough
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CommentThe future is now for vanguards
As we mark the two-year anniversary of the launch of the vanguards, Samantha Jones takes a look at how their work is helping to address gaps in healthcare
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CommentRemoval of the nursing student bursary is a reckless experiment
UNISON’s head of health Christina McAnea responds to a recent HSJ comment piece in which June Girvin argued for removal of the bursary
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CommentDe-bugging the system: the government’s new push to tackle E. coli infections
The strategy to combat the rise of E. coli is admirable but is it achievable without joined-up action across the health and care system?
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CommentEngagement works best when it’s actually engaging
Getting people involved in shaping and improving health and care services can only really work if you speak their language and capture their imagination
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CommentWe’re witnessing the greatest opportunity for reform in a generation
The answers to easing the extreme pressures on the NHS already exist – now we need to use them, says Natalie Douglas
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CommentYour Humble Servant: NHS Retro
‘Simon Stevens wants to take us back to 1991 before the purchaser provider split. Jim Mackey wants to go back two years to when he was a trust CEO.’
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CommentElective waits improve in January
The English waiting list and waiting times fell in January in better-than-expected figures. However the NHS remains in serious breach of the 18 week standard, and on recent trends things are still expected to get worse.
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CommentHousing is ready to step up – will health meet us halfway?
Supported accommodation can play a key role in preventing issues such as unnecessary hospital admission, but it can’t achieve great results on its own
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CommentMr Hammond's big picture is admirable – now let's see the fine print
The Budget finally gave social care some fiscal attention but it won’t be a game changer by itself – here’s what is needed now
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Comment'Devo health' is pushing national legislation to its limits
Greater Manchester shows that if local areas can build strong relationships between partners around an ambitious local reform plan, they can make very real progress
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CommentAn evidence-based plan for palliative care can ease the NHS crisis
Investment in palliative care with its specialists and home support services could make a major difference to an overstretched NHS, say Irene J Higginson and colleagues
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CommentE-cigarettes have the power to radically change health outcomes
Ignore the shock headlines – vaping has great potential for good, while tobacco remains the real enemy, says Jim McManus
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CommentSo how did the NHS cope with the never-ending winter?
Siva Anandaciva argues that we are now in danger of losing the substantial progress made in A&E performance more quickly and deeply than feared
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CommentSTPs and a question of trust
Stephen Brookes on how ego is the biggest barrier to collective leadership and we should consider personal interest as secondary to that of the public good while implementing the STPs