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CommentThe NHS graduate management scheme is a ‘shining beacon’
Replying to criticism of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, Raihan Mohammed says his experience of the programme has been overwhelmingly positive.
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CommentMore than 2,000 patients are still waiting over two years
Waiting lists and waiting times are overall still getting worse
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CommentThe National Lung Cancer Audit can help tackle health inequalities
Health inequalities are complex and far reaching, hence collecting data on health inequalities at both community and individual patient level is essential, writes Dr Neal Navani.
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CommentThe NHS graduate management scheme is no longer fit for purpose
The way the NHS trains its managers needs an overhaul argues Nora Ann Colton.
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CommentInvestment in contraception is critical to delivering health ambitions
The pandemic has put women’s access to contraception – which has long been affected by year-on-year funding cuts – at even greater risk. Writing on behalf of the Advisory Group on Contraception – an expert advisory group of leading clinicians, commissioners, and advocacy groups – Asha Kasliwal and Simphiwe Sesane ...
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CommentInvestors must play their part in building healthier societies
Jo Bibby on the launch of a new global alliance of investors, the role finance plays in improving people’s quality of life and how investing can build healthier societies
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CommentNHSE’s ‘unlawful’ waiting list guidance should be withdrawn
It may be unlawful, undermines National Statistics, puts managers at risk of prosecution, and erodes public trust in the NHS
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CommentRevealed: How cost of living pressures will exacerbate emergency care demand
NHS analysts and modellers from Bristol University investigate the possible impact of cost of living pressures for the coming winter, finding an estimated 5 to 13 per cent additional demand for 111, 999, and mental healthcare.
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CommentGood air quality in hospitals is as important as clean water
With energy costs rising, it is vitally important to find methods of preventing virus transmission that are safe, quick to implement and affordable, writes Dr Alice Bunn
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CommentNHS leaders must be curious about poverty
A new report from King’s Fund and the Centre for Progressive Policy highlights the stark truth of patients facing health inequalities and deprivation due to poverty. Toby Lewis urges ICP leaders to respond effectively
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Comment'Enough is enough': it's time for concerted action on poor maternity care
Sara Ledger emphasises the urgent need to improve maternity services across the country.
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CommentA new award to honour NHS nurse Amin Abdullah
With the guiding principle of bringing Gandhian values to healthcare, Narinder Kapur describes three recent healthcare award schemes he set up to enhance staff wellbeing and patient care.
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CommentHow our trust survived a terrorist attack
CEO Kathryn Thomson reflects on the devasting terrorist attack that targeted Liverpool Women’s Hospital last year, and how the trust overcame and learnt from the incident.
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CommentUnderfunded sexual health services are no longer sustainable
This year marks the five-year anniversary of when the HIV prevention drug, PrEP was made available for free. Danny Beales lists down actions the governmet must take to address the barriers in accessing PrEP for all communities
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CommentFailing to invest in rehabilitation will bring grave consequences for all
Based on her recent experience of visiting an enormous hospital, Karen Middleton stresses on how staff felt demoralised and patients in long waiting suffered from poor care
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CommentHow Healthwatch will help the NHS this winter
Community organisations rallied to help the NHS during the pandemic. With services facing another challenging winter, Louise Ansari, national director of Healthwatch England, explains how Healthwatch are planning to lend a hand again
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CommentHow co-production can keep up with the rapid pace of system change
Co-production is undoubtedly vital to the future of mental health services, but the challenge we face now is how to ensure that co-production and efforts to address systemic inequalities can keep pace with the rapid pace of system change, writes Sam Holmes
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CommentWhat people with lived experience can teach us
People with lived experience report feeling dismissed and diminished by attempts to include them, despite best efforts through legislation, policy, and a pioneering patient leadership movement, writes Rachel Matthews and Keymn Whervin
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CommentPrice hikes could devastate the nation’s lungs this winter
Sarah Woolnough, CEO at Asthma + Lung UK, urges the government to step up for people with lung conditions as millions of people risk being plunged into fuel poverty.
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CommentParkinson’s patients feel abandoned by the NHS policy makers
Sam Freeman Carney talks about the challenges that people with Parkinson’s face as a result of workforce shortages in the NHS.