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Comment'Learning systems' can help get the NHS off its knees
Giving providers digital tools and technologies to resolve challenges within the health system is a possible approach for embedding learning and improvement into the process of delivering healthcare. By Nell Thornton-Lee, Tom Hardie and Tim Horton
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CommentNHS at risk of losing a generation of data analysts
If the NHS wants to lead the world in health data and analytics to improve care and make better population decisions, analysts must receive opportunities to access continuing professional development. By Andi Orlowski
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CommentWhat the NHS's partnership with Virginia Mason revealed
Prioritising workplace culture when planning and delivering improvement at an organisation and system wide level is the need of the hour. By Bryan Jones and Nicola Burgess
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CommentThe cost of living crisis is a health emergency too
Author David Finch highlights the relationship between the increasing costs of living and deteriorating public health in the UK – and the action that the government could take.
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CommentBetter access to rehabilitation can mitigate health inequality
Addressing inadequate rehabilitation services and disparities in healthy life expectancy is long overdue, and ensuring access may just prevent further entrenching inequities. By Natasha Owusu and Rachel Newton
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CommentThe seemingly fair principle that is driving NHS inequality
Co-authors Sally Gainsbury and Polly Mitchell highlight the need to tackle the “first come, first served” reality in the health service.
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CommentDo ICSs face an impossible task?
ICSs can help foster collaboration between partners to offer new solutions to entrenched problems while on the flipside they also face risks in how they respond to national asks. By Anna Charles
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CommentOptometry has a critical part to play in tackling the NHS backlog
Community optometrists can provide an immediate solution to the backlog in hospital eye departments, but only if there is a sustained NHS commitment towards true integration into the primary healthcare family, writes Adam Sampson
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CommentEnglish waiting list nears 7 million
The wait for diagnosis and decision is rising much faster than the wait for treatment.
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CommentHas the growth in medical consultants outstripped need?
The specialty reports reference international benchmarking data to argue the need for more of everyone, illustrates Dr Nadeem Moghal
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CommentThe uncomfortable truth about the CQC
An employment tribunal has just found the Care Quality Commission guilty of unfairly dismissing a whistleblower. Roger Kline examines the case and is implications.
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CommentJohnson’s government: One step forward for mental health, too many steps back
An informed and ambitious plan could positively change the way Britain’s mental health system works from top to bottom. Paul Farmer explores how.
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CommentHow to close the Goldacre data analysis gap
Andi Orlowski shines light on the glaring need for the NHS to incorporate data and analysis to transform care and outcomes for patients and service users
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CommentThe NHS's approach to reducing elective waiting times is unlikely to work
Trying to eliminate cohorts of waiting list patients is too simplistic says Rob Findlay
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CommentPM Truss will demand cuts in ‘NHS bureaucracy’
We are mercifully nearly at the end. In a few days, we will know who will replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. And unless the polls are completely wrong, that person will be Liz Truss. But during what has felt a long campaign with more heat than light what might ...
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CommentNHS health workforce crisis: The challenging opportunities in flexible working
The right to flexible working should be available to all NHS staff, supported by policies and decision-making that are equitable across services, specialties and organisations, writes Dr Ahmed Seedat
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Comment‘Warm hubs’ may potentially save lives this winter
Claire Kennedy and Simon Morioka discuss the importance of bringing people together to share resources and the need to look beyond traditional planning, to control the impact of the coming winter
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CommentThe next best thing to a plan
The NHS faces the toughest winter on record. With a renewed promise of support from national leaders, integrated care systems now have even more to worry about, writes Julian Patterson
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CommentPromoting people’s skills in the new normal
Dean Royles highlights the importance of soft skills in people professionals, managers and union reps, especially during and after the crisis conditions emerging from covid
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CommentElective waits continued to worsen in June
Growing underlying pressures are coming into conflict with the headline targets.