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CommentThe NHS is facing an ancient problem
The planning guidance seeks to balance three main priorities. Scholars of ancient Greek could help with the answer
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CommentWhat will new models of care mean for rent reimbursement and NHS surgeries?
Property issues require due consideration so that primary care is not hampered as the NHS undergoes significant changes due to the new care models. By Nathan East and Edwina Farrell
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CommentTransparency can bring about the desired changes in the NHS
If the NHS leadership really wants to follow through on its message for the future, they need to embrace transparency. Ric Whalley writes
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CommentAn open letter to Jeremy Hunt from a whistleblower
Sharmila Chowdhury calls on the health secretary to resolve the injustices faced by so many
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CommentLet's reward diverse boards
Award schemes should stop rewarding organisations with unrepresentative boards, says Debbie Sorkin
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CommentThe NHS can learn about gender balance from FTSE 100 boards
Amanda Reynolds writes that the private sector has made significant progress when it comes to boardroom gender balance and this can be replicated in the NHS
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CommentRemodel the NHS house while there's still some sunshine
Chris Hopson on the planning guidance and the NHS’s challenge in 2016-17
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CommentDo more than talk about prevention
Service transformation and redesign are needed to achieve more expansive prevention in healthcare, says Jim McManus
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CommentBeware the cost of digitisation
There is little doubt about the power of digitisation to transform healthcare – the only thing that needs utmost consideration is the cost factor
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Why adopting the bright ideas of others is the smart way to make those big savings
Sharing examples of success is helpful and is also where we have seen trusts reduce costs and improve value, writes Ben James
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CommentThe shortage of women leaders does patients a disservice
Three quarters of all CCG GP leads are men. Julie Wood argues for better management of female talent to redress the balance
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CommentEnd Game: Farewell to the wee man of the NHS
Tim Kelsey was bid adieu with choice quotes and a curious case of 40 names
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CommentAn all-inclusive NHS is achievable
Discrimination against minorities is prevalent in the NHS, but a climate of inclusion, mutual respect and supportiveness will ensure that the benefits of diversity are gained
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CommentNHS employment must be made as attractive as possible
In her foreword to HSJ’s workforce investigation, Clare Panniker describes the pressures that forced her trust to spend £18m on agency staff last year, and the system-wide solutions
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CommentBreaking free from the short-term, one-way, top-down system
In the future NHS, where different organisations work collaboratively with a sense of shared purpose, how does performance management fit in?
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CommentWhere does the spending review leave social care?
The short termist ‘hotpotch’ of measures taken by the government does nothing to stem the growing pressures on social care
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CommentIs Southern Health a one-off? Ministers have no way of knowing
The leaked Southern Health review exposed a gap of knowledge about quality of care. Shaun Lintern asks whether the problem is limited to only one trust
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CommentMove patient and public involvement from the margins to the mainstream
The benefits of improved engagement in healthcare
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CommentMichael White: Osborne’s ‘magic sofa’ does not sit comfortably
The chancellor found cash for the NHS down the back of the settee, but cuts to social care may come back to haunt him
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CommentEngland breaches 18 week target
If you take non-reporting trusts into account, it looks like the English NHS breached 18 weeks in October – for the first time since the target was originally achieved in January 2012