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CommentFuture healthcare funding will require tax increases
Anita Charlesworth discusses the dilemma facing the government: improving the quality of the health service through a rise in healthcare spend or increasing the low level of taxes
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CommentThe data debate: What is really needed to transform NHS care
Kay Boycott argues that while data sharing is imperative to transform NHS care, it must be married with the use of new healthcare technologies, robust safeguards and continuing dialogue with patients.
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CommentThe Lansley reforms succeeded in unintended ways
Half a decade on, Nick Timmins assesses the impact of the Lansley reforms and the first five years of NHS England
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The less deceived
Andy Cowper ruminates on drawing a line between experience and cynicism when it comes to NHS politics and management
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CommentCommunity services – the glue in the system
Georgia Butterworth argues that we need to recognise and build on the massive untapped opportunities presented by strengthening community services
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CommentTrue integration must start with the local economy
If we want to earn the trust of local authorities we need to be talking with them about the financing of social care, not just the provision
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CommentFive GP referral systems – four of them safe
Sam Everington discusses the pros and cons of the five ways a GP can refer patients to a hospital
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CommentKarin Smyth: Do away with tax benefits for wholly owned companies
Wholly owned companies drive a further fragmentation of the NHS and ignore the strategic drive towards partnership and cooperation across systems, opines Karin Smyth
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CommentWhat does the NHS's new medicines savings drive mean for pharma?
Steve How and Sue Thomas, of Wilmington Healthcare, explore how pharma should engage with CCGs on prescribing saving targets
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CommentBrexit: Crucial to get the right workforce solution
If the government gets the workforce solution on the road to Brexit wrong and there are shortfalls in health and social care recruitment from EU countries, serious action such as increasing pay levels to make jobs in the sector more desirable to UK workers and increasing immigration from other countries ...
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CommentYour RTT profiles for 2018-19
Need a forecast of you RTT profiles for 2018-19? Look no further.
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CommentVoluntary, community and social enterprise organisations can help co-design systems
Alex Fox, Glen Garrod and Rob Webster on how voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations are at the heart of developing more integrated systems
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CommentAHPs hold the key to better leadership
Involving allied healthcare professionals in senior roles and leadership positions in the NHS will benefit patient care
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CommentSteve Dunn: How we achieved our outstanding rating
West Suffolk Foundation Trust chief Steve Dunn sets out the key leadership lessons he and his team learnt following the trust’s outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Towards good ideas
Even as Jeremy Hunt and Philip Hammond argue over the budget boost for the NHS, other people are starting to have some good ideas about helping out the NHS, writes Andy Cowper
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CommentWaiting times blow out to 22 weeks as elective admissions falter
Waiting times rose again, and the longest waits were hardest hit. Continued, severe and widespread capacity pressures are the likely culprit. By Rob Findlay
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CommentA single, unified voice for community services
Matthew Winn explains the aims of the newly established Community Network that includes the NHS and not for profit organisations providing community health services
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CommentNHS managers should develop a stronger voice for good management
Speeding up improvements would mean understanding more about good management in the NHS and challenging poor management – less through regulation and more through stronger peer networks, writes Jennifer Dixon
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CommentMaking demand and capacity planning more robust
Paul Stroner gives an update on a programme by NHS England and NHS Improvement that aims to improve demand and capacity modelling in elective care
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CommentWhy the silence on the poor rate of return from NHS consultancy spend?
Andrew Sturdy, Ian Kirkpatrick and Gianluca Veronesi respond to criticism from the industry of their research on the use of management consultants by NHS trusts