Recorded in the middle of another dramatic week for the NHS, the latest HSJ Health Check takes stock of whether primary care really has seen long-lasting innovation during the pandemic, and debates if a mood-measuring watch for GPs is the answer to burn-out.
We also discuss progress towards the “40 new hospitals” (or thereabouts), and the long-running saga of Chorley emergency department which a local campaign group now wants closed after 10 years of campaigning for the opposite.
Featuring Nick Carding, Annabelle Collins, Lawrence Dunhill and Jasmine Rapson.
Send feedback to annabelle.collins@wilmingtonhealthcare.com.
One way to help struggling GP practices could be ‘vertical integration’ which occurs when healthcare organisations operating at different stages along the patient pathway combine, by Jon Sussex and Dr Manbinder Sidhu.
Consistently delivering the physiological needs are what most of our colleagues require this winter and beyond, writes Richard Mitchell
Professor Judith Smith, Sarah Parkinson and Dr Manbinder Sidhu discuss in their evaluation, concerns pertaining to PCNs, its increasing progress and, its collective working with various practices.
It’s easy to get desensitised to disastrous waiting times in the NHS, but behind the numbers are real and avoidable care failures.
2022-23 was probably the worst ever winter for the NHS, after a steep collapse in performance. This year’s been a little better — new figures confirm — but how was this achieved, and what does it mean for coming months?
On this episode, we discuss the quality of maternity services in the NHS, which have remained firmly in the spotlight.
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