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CommentThe growing influence of mayors could help fight health inequalities
The King’s Fund and the Centre for Local Economic Strategies have been looking at how to ensure that English devolution fulfils its potential for reducing health inequalities. There are three key areas that need to be addressed if the emerging relationship between ICSs, ICBs and strategic authorities is to help ...
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CommentThe toxic overdiagnosis narrative is a distraction from the mental health crisis
Rising mental distress demands evidence, compassion and reform, not culture wars, denial or barriers to support for young people, writes Sarah Hughes
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CommentHow further education can relieve pressure on the NHS
Further education colleges across England are already delivering successful preventive health initiatives but remain underutilised and underfunded, according to a new report that calls for better partnership working to ease NHS pressures
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NewsPrevention shift ‘left behind’ as budgets are held flat
Public health allocations are due to be held flat in real terms for three years, despite the government’s intended “shift from treatment to prevention”.
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CommentMSK drives England’s biggest health inequality gap
Analysis shows musculoskeletal conditions create England’s largest health inequality gap, with community physiotherapy offering the best route to tackling preventable ill health in deprived areas
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CommentI’m no longer an NHSE director but I’ve not finished trying to improve care
Thrombectomy transforms stroke recovery, yet limited access and regional gaps mean many UK patients still miss this vital, disability-preventing treatment, writes Professor Sir Steve Powis
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HSJ PartnersFostering co-production and tackling racism will build an NHS fit for all
The healthcare system’s current participation and co-production practice with diverse and marginalised communities remains, at best, extremely variable. At its worst, it can be actively harmful in its exclusion of some of the most marginalised voices in society.
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HSJ PartnersA collaborative, prevention-first approach to tackling chronic kidney disease
This advertorial has been co-written and co-developed as part of the SPOT CKD collaborative working project between Boehringer Ingelheim, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board, Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, and the North East and North Cumbria ICB. The article has been funded by Boehringer ...
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CommentHow the NHS Assembly used its soft power to effect change
Created in 2019, the NHS Assembly united diverse perspectives from across health and care to support NHS England’s leadership and long-term vision
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HSJ PartnersEpilepsy care: A system under strain – and the opportunity for change
Epilepsy is the most common long-term neurological condition of childhood in the UK, affecting one in 100 people and costing the NHS up to £2bn annually.1,2 Yet the condition remains underprioritised, despite being treatable and often preventable in its most devastating outcomes.
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CommentI felt unsafe as a visually impaired NHS cancer patient
Patient safety doesn’t begin on a ward or in a theatre, but with communication, writes Anna Tylor
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NewsNational director: More money required to tackle ‘significant waits’
NHS England’s national director of learning disability and autism services has said more money is needed to tackle “significant” autism assessment waits.
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NewsRevealed: Hospitals where the poor wait much longer than the rich
Some of the NHS’s best performing trusts have a big gap between waiting times for their most and least deprived patients.
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CommentTwo cheers for the 10-Year Health Plan's CVD ambitions
Preventing cardiovascular disease offers a major opportunity to improve health, reduce inequalities and strengthen the economy, but stronger action is needed
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HSJ PartnersLung cancer diagnosis in England: Can we do better?
Discussions and reflections from the HSJ Cancer Forum Panel discussion, 12 March 2025
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CommentThe NHS must work with charities if it wants to succeed
A decade of preventable deaths shows why only bold, cross-sector collaboration can build a healthier, fairer England, explains Laurie Lee
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2025: Digital Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
WINNER University Hospitals of Leicester Trust: Multilingual Self Check-In at the East Midlands Planned Care Centre
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2025: Reducing Health Inequalities through Digital
WINNER South East London Integrated Care Board: Lewisham CVD Project
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CommentThe patient voice is being silenced
Patients are being shut out of the NHS conversation, as lived experience and recovery support are increasingly ignored
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HSJ PartnersBringing equity and consistency to cancer care
Boehringer Ingelheim shares how it is addressing healthcare inequalities in cancer care, with a particular emphasis on treatment accessibility, genomic testing, and standardising the management of rare cancers.