All Health inequalities articles – Page 5
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NewsGovt warned NHS may be forced to ‘completely revisit’ investment plans
Increases in inflation will force the NHS to drastically scale back services unless the government provides extra funding, NHS England’s chief financial officer warned today.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Pathology networks’ digital maturity revealed
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentBetter access to rehabilitation can mitigate health inequality
Addressing inadequate rehabilitation services and disparities in healthy life expectancy is long overdue, and ensuring access may just prevent further entrenching inequities. By Natasha Owusu and Rachel Newton
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Simple tech slashes lists
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentThe seemingly fair principle that is driving NHS inequality
Co-authors Sally Gainsbury and Polly Mitchell highlight the need to tackle the “first come, first served” reality in the health service.
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Expert BriefingNHSE’s federated data platform explained
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Cyber attack reverberates around the NHS
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: No time to waste
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: What’s gone wrong at the NHS AI lab?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Written by senior correspondent Nick Carding. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsMiddle-class patients to wait longer for care under health inequalities project
Dozens of NHS trusts are looking to adopt new software which can take health inequalities into account when prioritising patients for elective care.
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NewsICS leader: We’re still facing short-sighted trusts
An integrated care system chair has said systems will still face ’short-sighted’ competitive behaviour from trusts, citing a trust chair who didn’t want his staff to take part in a system-wide executive development programme.
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NewsRevealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges
A cluster of integrated care systems across the North of England has bucked the trend to deliver successful integration schemes and better patient outcomes despite high levels of deprivation, new analysis has found.
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NewsUkraine refugees not accessing NHS despite need
Many Ukraine refugees who were receiving regular care before leaving the country say they have not continued it since arriving in the UK, prompting warnings they have not been ‘empowered to seek support’.
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NewsNHSE urges system leaders to ‘understand’ primary care in their areas
An NHS England director has urged integrated care system leaders to better understand primary care in their areas.
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CommentHow providers are delivering on tackling backlogs
Trusts are implementing a wide range of innovative solutions to tackle the elective care backlog, as Ella Fuller explains
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NewsSharp rise in child development issues in wake of covid
Families are being ‘left without the support they need’, as overstretched services struggle to handle ‘a significant and growing minority’ of children not developing as expected.
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NewsTrusts failing on waiting list ask told to ‘get act together’
Trusts have been told to ‘get their act together’ on health inequalities, after HSJ research suggested only a small minority have so far published data on disparities in waiting times between different patient groups.
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CommentNHS’ failure to address racial inequality in access to vaccines is shocking
Unless NHSE learns from how it failed immunocompromised people from ethnic minority communities last autumn, we are likely to see the same racial disparity in access to any future vaccine doses, writes Gemma Peters
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NewsHSJ’s Ukraine e-auction raises over £23,000
HSJ’s e-auction has raised £23,760 to help the people of wartorn Ukraine.
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CommentHow the Health and Care Bill can help the homeless and socially excluded
The new structures and duties proposed in the Bill, to integrate services around patient’s needs and across organisational boundaries present the opportunity for a step-change in our collective responses to the most excluded, writes Alex Bax