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CommentCommunity referrals can relieve burden on primary care
The pandemic has worsened health and wellbeing for many and widened inequalities further. Link workers can improve outcomes for people whom GPs may struggle to support and help achieve better results, writes Julie Bass
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CommentNHS England must act now to improve the vaccination of those with a learning disability
Dan Scorer on the new data on the health inequalities facing people with a learning disability
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CommentNHS London’s plans for virtual wards create unnecessary risk
NHS London’s plan for dealing with the omicron wave needs to take a more multidisciplinary approach and be more evidence-based if it is to not build unwarranted variation into services, write Elaine Maxwell and Alison Leary
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CommentAct now to deliver the stroke priorities in the long-term plan
After this difficult winter is behind us, we must see a renewed focus on commissioning the right evidence-based interventions to deliver better acute and post-stroke care, writes Juliet Bouverie
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CommentOmicron will turn the cancer crisis into a catastrophe
The national effort against COVID-19 is essential, but so too is a resolute focus on cancer, writes Michelle Mitchell.
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CommentFrom 'hospitality to health', enabling career change
Anchor institutions create local economies that serve people, place and planet, writes Conrad Parke
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CommentThe NHS needs 'space' to deal with years of 'chronic intense pressure'
In 2022, we need to think more about people working under chronic intense pressure and the only way to manage this pressure and sustain good work is to create as much space as possible for ourselves and our staff, writes Jon Restell
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CommentNHS charities can help the service tackle the huge challenges ahead
Ellie Orton, chief executive at NHS Charities Together, urges trusts to engage with their local NHS charities to not only help tackle the huge pressures facing the NHS but also open up opportunities through investments in great ideas and innovations
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Scottish GPs are grumpy too
Henry Anderson gives the lowdown on the major happenings in the NHS north of the border
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CommentWaiting list nudges 6 million as NHSE incentive plan fails to bite
The waiting list continues to grow rapidly, with no sign yet of the missing referrals surging back, says Rob Findlay
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CommentPutting neighbourhoods at the heart of integrated care
Leaning into neighbourhood working offers a threefold benefit: reducing demand on the health and care system, developing community resilience and enabling retention through delivering new models of care. By Toby Lewis
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CommentPolitical complacency is a major risk for NHS ‘recovery and reform’
The new political leaders in healthcare need to articulate a clear and ambitious vision, or will undermine efforts to “build back better”. Here’s how, by Chris Thomas
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CommentThe five habits of 'learning health systems'
During the past 18 months, healthcare systems have had to cope with the immense challenges of dealing with the unknowns. Dr Jenny Shand and Rachel Penniston shed light on the five features of a successful learning health system
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CommentThe removal of competition from the NHS is good news for the acute 'oligarchs'
The new legion of ICS leaders has some difficult problems to grapple with as the current acute system is akin to public sector oligarchs with a monopoly on staff, capital estate and coded activity, writes John Bennett
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CommentLaunching an EPR during the pandemic
The NHS needs access to the right technology and our leaders need to be making the right technology decisions, highlights Dr Ayesha Rahim
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CommentA willingness to take risks is key to tackling the emergency care crisis
To reduce overall harm and risk from ambulance delays to patients across the system and not just those in one’s direct care, clinicians need to balance the risk and adapt their approach to decisions for patients and systems, writes Benjamin Owens
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CommentHow digital technology is benefiting community health services
Community providers’ flexible, community-based model of service provision is well-suited to testing small-scale innovations in digital. By Andrew Ridley
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CommentCombating long covid will take a marathon effort
With over one million people thought to be suffering from long-term symptoms after a covid infection, the NHS needs funding for research into treatments and specialist staff so people with long covid can access the help they so desperately need, writes Sarah Woolnough, CEO of Asthma UK and the British ...
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CommentPatient leadership: where are we now?
An open letter to Rosamund Snow and Michael Seres, by David Gilbert
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CommentHow to make sure good analysts really can 'save more lives than a good anaesthetist'
When I think of ‘good analysts’ I picture someone striving to ‘improve decision quality’ for system leaders. Such good analysts really can save lives, writes Andi Orlowski