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CommentEnough analysis: Make real plans for young people's mental health services
Years of critical reviews have failed to bring about the required changes in child and adolescent mental healthcare services. Establishing a good case for improvement is important to move beyond just analysing the problems
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CommentWhat have we solved in medical education?
Neel Sharma identifies some areas where future educational leaders should make improvements
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CommentThe NHS must rise to the challenge of tackling poverty
The health service does sterling work treating the consequences of poverty but can do much to address the causes, too
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CommentSome rare good news for NHS finances, at least in the short term
HSJ’s analysis provides some welcome and rare good news for NHS finances, but it is essential the service comes up with a long term plan so it can be sustained, writes Adam Roberts
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CommentEngland remains solidly in breach of 18 weeks as new incentives loom
Longer-waiting services should have improved in June, as trusts approach the start of their “reset” trajectories in July. But instead those longer waits got worse.
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CommentSizing up the risks and rewards of pathology services
The potential of pathology to improve healthcare is enormous but to untap it we must avoid a number of pitfalls
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CommentFood, glorious food: can trust chiefs eat hospital meals for a week?
Andy Jones throws down a challenge to trust chief executives to share the same culinary experience as their patients…
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CommentVanguards must utilise their workforce to the best of their ability
The NHS is under such considerable pressure that we need to make best use of our dedicated staff and teams.
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CommentA glimmer of hope for NHS staffing
The necessity for leaders to freshly engage with and motivate staff is the silver lining in these tough times
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CommentSTPs – a catalyst for good or just another change programme?
Despite the cynicism surrounding STPs, a new era of cross-system, whole patient service design and delivery is emerging
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CommentIf the commissioners get it wrong, the reset may fail
Much of the burden of implementing the longer term aims of last month’s reset will fall on commissioners
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CommentThe NHS must move from ‘no blame’ to a ‘just culture’
A ‘no blame’ culture in the NHS runs the risk of exonerating genuine wrong-doers - it’s time to move rapidly to a ‘just culture’
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CommentAre the ‘18 weeks’ trajectories deliverable?
The “financial reset” document explains how 18 week waiting times will be restored. But will it work
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CommentPrEP row shows we can't let the NHS be picky about prevention
Jim McManus argues the NHS is ‘moralising’ about HIV when it should be working with local authorities on system-wide prevention
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CommentInnovative managers can get the NHS back on a sustainable footing
The NHS has the chance to both put its finances on a sustainable footing and continue to offer innovative treatments – and it’s all in the power of managers, argues Conservative MP Jo Churchill
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CommentChief executives’ gameplan over the next year
The future will bring more clarity to the impications of NHS finance in the current political scenario
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CommentTrying to handle responsibilities without resources
Local authorities will struggle to implement their health and wellbeing strategies if they must be delivered on an ever shorter shoestring
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CommentWe need to live the values that Kate Granger inspired
Kate Granger’s legacy is a global brand - the task for the NHS now is to unite and change our culture for the better
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CommentDon’t rush to reconfigure: there is another way
Sustainability and transformation plans must not be kicked into the long grass - they could be a better solution to NHS problems than reconfigurations