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CommentExactly what we need in a workforce strategy
There is a pressing need for a comprehensive workforce strategy for the NHS
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CommentEngland slides further into 18 weeks breach
England’s referral-to-treatment waiting times headed towards 19 weeks, fuelled by a growing waiting list and in spite of the intended recovery trajectories
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CommentTen tips to improve public mental health services
Faculty of Public Health president John Middleton unveils his action plan
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CommentJunior doctors' strikes - the effect on waiting times
Junior doctors’ strikes mean a loss of elective activity and a rise in waiting times, but don’t go blaming them for the continued breach of “18 weeks”.
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CommentWe're serious about innovation – now let's get serious about spread
The Academic Health Science Network’s Atlas of Solutions in Healthcare launches today, bringing together great ideas on tackling variation
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CommentFive questions to help you build an effective data and analytics framework
Ignore all the distracting noise and proliferation of choices and focus on this strategy that delivers results, says Max Jones
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CommentTested, peer reviewed and inspiring: meet HSJ Solutions
Deborah Tarrant says our new database of validated best practice in the NHS will help future leaders learn and stay ahead
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CommentWhy it is vital that healthcare must capitalise on the digital revolution now
How an open health platform and ecosystem can make the twin goals of a greater emphasis on self-management of conditions, and ramping up the potential of innovation, a reality
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CommentThe NHS ignores the law at its peril
The increasing trend of carrying out change in the NHS without legislation to back it up is creating a worrying shortfall of accountability
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CommentSome suggestions for the Patients Association about elective waiting times
The Patients Association’s waiting times report had a big impact, but NHS England was still justified in calling it “misleading and statistically flawed”. How could future reports avoid the pitfalls?
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CommentCapitated budgets are a good deal for long term conditions
With the Year of Care capitation tariff attracting global interest, capitation budgets are becoming a mainstream need for seamless care of patients with long term conditions
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CommentHealthcare can learn from Pokémon GO
Tapping into potential assets, observing effects of augmented reality, and behavioural theory can help the NHS make a difference in patients’ lives
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CommentThe deficit train has slowed – but it is still moving
Today’s financial figures look better – but it will be much later in the year before we actually know how the provider sector is shaping up.
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CommentWhat if antibiotics stopped working?
Antimicrobial resistance is an unavoidable process of natural selection, but tackling the issue needs solutions that must be adopted on a global scale
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CommentJail for CV shows need for regulation
A statutory regulatory regime for registering and authenticating physiologists could avoid serious threats to patient safety
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CommentSuccessful integrations can reap benefits for the NHS
The renewed interest in collaboration and integration amongst NHS providers is good news but we need to ensure the right transactions take place
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CommentDress for the job at hand: understanding tribalism
Conforming to expectations in the way you dress is an unspoken rule of professional life - just don’t isolate yourself from other groups
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CommentCriminalisation of healthcare professionals: do patients benefit?
Internal assurance processes are vital to ensure criminal liability is not unfairly biased against healthcare professionals in the event of an accident
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CommentWhat could Theresa May do about the 'burning injustice' of health inequality?
Theresa May has said she wants to address the life expectancy gap linked to poverty. We asked leading experts where she should start
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CommentExplore the third sector to improve diversity of boards
NHS Improvement should look to the charity sector to recruit the kind of diverse boards that we greatly needed