External contributors – Page 114
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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
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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…