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CommentFinding the right balance between social care and healthcare
Strategic change is required to reduce the sharpness of the differential between social care, as a largely paid-for service, and health as an essentially free service
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CommentPatient involvement: a silver bullet for innovation spread?
Patient involvement is repeatedly identified as a common condition for supporting the spread of innovation in the NHS, writes Trevor Fernandes
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CommentTreating private patients in NHS hospitals – benefit or cost?
An independent investigation is needed into whether trusts are getting significant net additions to their income from treating private patients, and whether the drive to set aside yet further beds for private patients should be allowed to continue. By Colin Leys
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CommentLearning agility is a top predictor of leadership potential
Leadership development needs to shift the focus onto developing learners who can create solutions. By Kate Wilson
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CommentRTT admission rates collapse
Admissions per working day fell dramatically, to the lowest January level ever recorded, as the NHS followed central guidance to shut down routine care and release beds for emergency admissions. One year waiters – a key goal for next year’s plans – went up again and exceeded 2,000 for the ...
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The NHS needs a chief anthropologist more than any chief inspector
Andy Cowper on the massive and largely undiscussed set of cultural problems that the NHS has
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CommentA piecemeal approach to transform cancer care won't work
Having reached the half way mark, Moira Fraser reviews the NHS’s implementation of the five year cancer strategy launched in July 2015 and the obstacles impeding progress
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Towards good news
Andy Cowper shares some bits of actual good news peppered with a dash of a downer at the end.
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CommentPlanning for next winter must start now
Derek Alderson on how we need to look at increasing capacity, reconfiguring surgical services and greater separation of elective and emergency sites sooner than later to avoid winter pressures
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CommentThe back story of the former bagel mogul behind ‘Care BnB’
The CareRooms concept occurred to me after spending the last 25 years in healthcare and being a long term carer for my father, who died in 2016. But I started off selling bagels. By CareRooms chief executive Paul Gaudin
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CommentIncreasing productivity and maximising capacity is essential
Four Eyes Insight helps NHS trusts improve operational productivity. In the first of two articles, the company’s founders explain their experience of the productivity opportunity and the clinical perspective they bring to it.
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CommentMaintaining the statutory duty of candour
Samantha Cox on the need for systems and procedures that promote openness and transparency
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CommentThe legitimate and important need to address accountability
We must all be committed to protecting patients from harm in a system that promotes both learning and accountability for staff, writes James Titcombe
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The meaning of meaning
Andy Cowper attempts to find out what does the NHS mean ie what does it stand for.
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CommentReflections on the provider sector deficit
Adam Wright reflects on the future of the provider sector in the light of the recently released quarter three performance data for the sector
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CommentHonesty required when talking about mental health funding
Ministers and senior health leaders speak about record levels of spending on mental health but the experience of those on the frontline speaks a different truth, writes Wendy Burn
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CommentEnd discrimination in solving the health service's problems
Why is patient safety and quality improvement excluding so many groups with the poorest health outcomes, asks Josephine Ocloo
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CommentHistory repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce
The problems that University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust, and King’s College Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich are facing a direct consequence of the acquisitions they made when South London Healthcare Trust and Mid Staffs failed, says Robert Royce
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CommentThe NHS needs your help on its 70th birthday
As the NHS completes 70 years, a cross party independent review of the health and care system tries to answer the tough questions about the future of the beleagured NHS, says Lord Darzi
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CommentThe government needs to do more to protect children's mental health services
We must ensure that the system of addressing children’s mental health needs is made sustainable, otherwise the younger population with the greatest needs is likely to suffer the most. By Nick Waggett