Comment archive – Page 10
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CommentICB cuts are endangering patient safety
Reforms to integrated care boards could lead to thousands of registered nurses being made redundant and a downgrading of nursing leadership, writes Patricia Marquis
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CommentNew stroke service standards are a necessary reset
A new scoring system reflects updated stroke care standards, revealing some worrying service gaps
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CommentWe don’t need a ‘national blueprint’ for neighbourhood care
While the NHS Neighbourhood Programme marks a welcome step towards addressing health inequalities, it risks repeating past mistakes unless it abandons centrally prescribed solutions and truly empowers local communities
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Restructure hits deadlock in many ICBs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Doctors can’t manage care by themselves
Administrative overload in the NHS is often blamed on managers, yet evidence suggests the real issue is a lack of effective management capacity, says Steve Black.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Details of maternity investigation revealed and ‘corridor care’ scrutinised
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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CommentFlawed league tables risk confusion and harm
A flawed approach to the government’s new league tables for trusts risks rewarding the wrong things, say the chief executives of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Reality bites for AI hype
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentCompetition between GPs and pharmacies is hampering service integration
Community pharmacies are vital to NHS reforms, but funding, workforce, collaboration and digital barriers threaten their expanded role, write RAND Europe’s Robert J. Romanelli, Saoirse Moriarty and Maggie Bradford
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: What Nietzsche teaches us about long A&E waits
Long A&E waits cost lives, yet NHS leadership avoids the evidence – echoing Nietzsche’s warning about institutional denial of truth
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CommentWe are wasting the NHS’s management consultancy expertise
Internal NHS consultancy teams offer trusted, cost-effective transformation support - yet remain underused and fragmented, and need strategic recognition and investment
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Passion and loss
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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Expert BriefingThe Download: More questions than answers
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingCarbon Copy: New green plans lay bare the steep challenge ahead
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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CommentFor neighbourhood care to work, we must close wards
Daniel Elkeles highlights how neighbourhood health can transform care but must scale with clear roles, shared incentives and enough resources to reduce hospital demand and cost
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CommentSomething has to give on ICB redundancies
Funding uncertainty and delays risk undermining ICB reforms essential to delivering the NHS 10-Year Plan, writes Kathy McLean
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Is Donald Trump right?
As drug costs soar and the pressure from pharma to speed the introduction of new medicines intensifies, the NHS must navigate complex trade-offs between innovation, affordability, and public health
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CommentAn NHS-only neighbourhood health service would be ruinously expensive
Community-led eye care is primed to be a much-needed win for the 10-Year Health Plan – so long as we are sensible about what we mean by “community”, writes Adam Sampson, CEO of the Association of Optometrists
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Nurses get tough
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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CommentMackey’s subco plan is risky and unnecessary
Now is not the time to subject low-paid workers to morale-sapping outsourcing, says Unison general secretary Christina McAnea