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CommentUnpaid carers’ rights are overlooked in hospital discharge
The discharge to assess model, rapidly extended during covid and still in place, has in many cases failed family members looking after loved ones at home, omitting carers from the discharge process, says Helen Walker of Carers UK.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: Making Scotland’s NHS 10pc better
In his regular dispatch from north of the border, Henry Anderson discusses the aim to remobilise the health service as quickly as possible over the next five years
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CommentCrowdsourcing ideas for hospital design can bring real benefits to our NHS
Dame Elaine Inglesby-Burke, a judge for the Wolfson Economics Prize 2021, suggests how fresh ideas can radically improve hospital planning and design
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CommentAs a CEO from an ethnic minority, staff expect me to make a difference to inequality
Patricia Miller, Dorset County Hospital CEO, shares her approach to building a culture of inclusion
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CommentWhen it comes to staff safety during the pandemic, the buck stops with chief executives
One of the main preventive roles of occupational health experts in the pandemic is, or should have been, to advise and support managers/employers in risk management and control both as regards compliance with legal duties on health and safety
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CommentThe Primer: NHS managers were ‘the enemy within’
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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CommentClimate emergency: 10 things every NHS trust can do now
Tim Jaggard, acting chief executive at UCLH, highlights 10 practical things every NHS trust must change immediately amidst a global climate and health emergency.
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CommentA permanent department for pandemics
Andrew Sturdy writes on the possibility of having a permanent government department for pandemics which can deploy latest technology and skills for testing and vaccinations
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CommentNHSI could not have had a better chair than Dido Harding
Narinder Kapur, Chris Harkensee and Terry Skitmore praise Dido Harding’s work on introducing fairer procedures for NHS staff which, they say, have contributed to workforce wellbeing, and patient safety.
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CommentNobody should be denied a second chance of life because of their ethnicity
Henny Braund addresses the inequalities patients face during stem cell transplants, urging the NHS make sure care is culturally appropriate
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CommentEnglish waiting list passes 5.4 million
Ongoing covid restrictions mean the waiting list continues to grow, with little sign of the pent-up demand coming back yet, says Rob Findlay
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CommentChange the Health Bill to strengthen governance and democracy
Labour MP Karin Smyth, who will be a member of the Parliamentary committee scrutinising the Health and Care Bill, proposes that ICS chairs should be appointed independently, and requirements for transparency.
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CommentUnder-pressure ambulance services are accelerating transformation
Chris Hopson and Daren Mochrie on the ambulance sector’s role in NHS recovery following covid.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: An uneasy relationship with private health
Despite a wider political unease about the independent sector, the Scottish government will need to partner with the private sector to address backlogs of care writes Henry Anderson
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CommentPritchard cannot sign up to an inadequate financial deal for the NHS
An open letter from CIPFA CEO, Rob Whiteman, following Amanda Pritchard’s recent appointment as the new CEO of NHS England
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CommentScrapping discharge fund will give the NHS a dangerous capacity squeeze
Failure to extend the £600m April to September “discharge to assess” funding will bring huge risk for the NHS, social care and patients, write Chris Hopson and Matthew Taylor.
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CommentThe full health and care data strategy must address its shortcomings
Focussing on building trust, addressing health inequalities, and improving social care data are critical if the NHSX data strategy is to address public concerns about privacy and unlock the potential of health and social care data, writes Josh Keith
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CommentPCNs need right support to manage local population health
A new report looks back at the successes in the last two years and challenges ahead for primary care networks, writes Kat Dalby-Welsh.
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CommentSimon Stevens’ mental health legacy - and the task for Amanda Pritchard
Paul Farmer on Simon Stevens’ role in bridging the gap between physical and mental health in the NHS.
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CommentA referral to diagnosis target is the wrong solution to the huge risk in the elective backlog
A cancer-style referral-to-diagnosis target sounds simple. But it turns out to be a lot more complicated than splitting the RTT target. By Rob Findlay