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CommentService users are best placed to design improvements
Emma Tiffin and Lois Sidney explain a new initiative in Cambridge and Peterborough that puts patients in the driving seat to improve mental health services
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CommentThe Bedpan: 'It’s about decency and what your readers want'
This week: Matt Tee, chief executive of the Independent Press Standards Organisation
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CommentSuccess on one-year waits, but waiting list grows to record-breaking size
The English NHS achieved its important ambition to halve the number of one-year waiters during 2018-19. However, the underlying waiting list continued to grow, reaching record levels and frustrating the other main ambition for elective waits. By Rob Findlay
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CommentAchieving greater collaboration and system working
National bodies and government need to to support NHS leaders and staff to make changes to local relationships, to bring about integration in the interest of their communities, and create the right legislative and regulatory framework for local leaders and their organisations to succeed. By Niall Dickson
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CommentWhat do the local election results mean for the NHS?
The thin majorities of the ruling Conservatives or Labour parties in many councils will have far-reaching consequences for social care and community health, explains Haydon Etherington
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CommentHow the 'lonely ones' can drive meaningful change
Liz Mear and Naomi Fulop on how embedded researchers can support busy teams to achieve positive impacts for patients and staff
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CommentThe NHS has suffered a critical loss of authentic internal challenge
It is time to safeguard against familiarity and self review, whilst adopting a seven-stepped approach to evaluating assurance regarding the delivery of trust improvement plans across the NHS, says Gillian Hooper
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CommentHealth and Wellbeing boards still have an important role to play
Richard Humphries on the need to clarify the role of health and wellbeing boards as part of the review of NHS legislation
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CommentThe Bedpan: Being stabbed is ‘a real teachable moment’
This week: Sarah Jones MP, chair of the all-party Parliamentary group on knife crime
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CommentIncreasing inclusivity can be hard and uncomfortable, but it is vital
Nick Carver and Joan Saddler give an overview of two recently held podcasts that featured an expert panel discussing inclusiveness in the health service
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CommentWhat do 'outstanding' trusts tell us about how to improve care?
Achieving a step-change in the quality of care across the NHS is ultimately going to require an organisation-wide approach to improvement, writes Bryan Jones
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CommentHancock's obsession with 'shiny' tech is 'blinding' us to the NHS' real needs
Nadeem Moghal on the lack of some basic technologies needed in every hospital in the NHS that accelerate the flow and quality of information, enabling timely responsive care
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CommentWhy 'low level' mental health problems require a sophisticated service response
Dr Nick Waggett responds to the Children’s Commissioner’s latest report on access to CAMHS
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CommentCowper’s Cut: End of a century
Andy Cowper on the lack of mandate, workforce plan, capital/maintenance plan and social care plan in healthcare
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CommentNHS boards are too often 'another country'
Naomi Chambers discusses the obervations and findings of a study which examined 43 NHS board meetings in England and Wales
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CommentHow to build an effective chief executive
Stephen Hart on how the NHS Leadership Academy’s aspiring chief executive programme is helping develop the health service’s leaders
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CommentPublic health services are still part of the NHS
Matthew Winn asks why clinical public health services are being treated as poor cousins to the NHS.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Mandate: born unto trouble as the sparks fly upwards
The DHSC’s failure to publish the mandate for NHS England for 2019-20 on time is an act of avoidable disrespect, says Andy Cowper
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CommentThe Bedpan: 'You must attend the opening of every new MRI'
This week: Part two of our interview with Ben Page, chief executive of pollsters Ipsos MORI
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CommentCowper’s Cut: But Social Care
Social care lies low on the political funding priority and public sympathy radar, with social care funding having acquired the totemic status of a black hole, says Andy Cowper